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Acknowledgements
List of Film Images
Introduction
I: Themes and Genres
Westerns and Americans
Howard Hughes's The Outlaw
A Meta-Western: Fred Zinnemann's High Noon
The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence
The Evolution of the Western
Brilliant Variations on Some Well-Known Notes: Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar
The Exemplary Beauty of Westerns: Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie and Budd Boetticher's Seven Men from Now
War and Peace
Howard Hawks's Air Force
On Frank Capra's Why We Fight: History, Documentation, and the Newsreel
On Ambiguity: John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage
War Films: Richard Fleischer's Between Heaven and Hell and Anthony Mann's Men in War
Stanley Kramer's The Pride and the Passion
High Infidelity: David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai
Stars and Goddesses
Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl
Henry Hathaway's Niagara
Doll in the Flesh, Cotton on Fire: Elia Kazan's Baby Doll
The Death of Humphrey Bogart
The Question of James Dean
Off the Beaten Path: John Cromwell's The Goddess
Fugitives and Criminals
Howard Hawks's Scarface and the Gangster Film
Joseph Losey's M: Remade in the U.S.A.
Women in Cages: John Cromwell's Caged
Film through a Telephoto Lens: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, & Ruth Orkin's The Little Fugitive
Sociological Routines: Philip Dunne's Ten North Frederick
Jean Renoir's The Woman on the Beach, The Southerner, and The Diary of a Chambermaid
II: Artists and Directors
Charles Chaplin [1889-1977]
Charlie Chaplin
The Myth of Monsieur Verdoux
Limelight, or the Death of Molière
The Grandeur of Limelight
Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]
On Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, and Rear Window
Pan Shot of Hitchcock
Must We Believe in Hitchcock?
Hitchcock vs. Hitchcock
Erich von Stroheim [1885-1957]
Erich von Stroheim: Form, Uniform, and Cruelty
Preston Sturges [1898-1959]
On Sullivan's Travels
On The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
On Hail the Conquering Hero
On Mad Wednesday
Orson Welles [1915-85]
The Technique of Citizen Kane
On Welles's Othello
Interview with Orson Welles
Orson Welles Cannibalized
William Wyler [1902-81]
William Wyler, or the Jansenist of Directing
Film Credits (in order of discussion)
A Bazin Bibliography
Index.
List of Film Images
Introduction
I: Themes and Genres
Westerns and Americans
Howard Hughes's The Outlaw
A Meta-Western: Fred Zinnemann's High Noon
The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence
The Evolution of the Western
Brilliant Variations on Some Well-Known Notes: Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar
The Exemplary Beauty of Westerns: Anthony Mann's The Man from Laramie and Budd Boetticher's Seven Men from Now
War and Peace
Howard Hawks's Air Force
On Frank Capra's Why We Fight: History, Documentation, and the Newsreel
On Ambiguity: John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage
War Films: Richard Fleischer's Between Heaven and Hell and Anthony Mann's Men in War
Stanley Kramer's The Pride and the Passion
High Infidelity: David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai
Stars and Goddesses
Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl
Henry Hathaway's Niagara
Doll in the Flesh, Cotton on Fire: Elia Kazan's Baby Doll
The Death of Humphrey Bogart
The Question of James Dean
Off the Beaten Path: John Cromwell's The Goddess
Fugitives and Criminals
Howard Hawks's Scarface and the Gangster Film
Joseph Losey's M: Remade in the U.S.A.
Women in Cages: John Cromwell's Caged
Film through a Telephoto Lens: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, & Ruth Orkin's The Little Fugitive
Sociological Routines: Philip Dunne's Ten North Frederick
Jean Renoir's The Woman on the Beach, The Southerner, and The Diary of a Chambermaid
II: Artists and Directors
Charles Chaplin [1889-1977]
Charlie Chaplin
The Myth of Monsieur Verdoux
Limelight, or the Death of Molière
The Grandeur of Limelight
Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]
On Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, and Rear Window
Pan Shot of Hitchcock
Must We Believe in Hitchcock?
Hitchcock vs. Hitchcock
Erich von Stroheim [1885-1957]
Erich von Stroheim: Form, Uniform, and Cruelty
Preston Sturges [1898-1959]
On Sullivan's Travels
On The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
On Hail the Conquering Hero
On Mad Wednesday
Orson Welles [1915-85]
The Technique of Citizen Kane
On Welles's Othello
Interview with Orson Welles
Orson Welles Cannibalized
William Wyler [1902-81]
William Wyler, or the Jansenist of Directing
Film Credits (in order of discussion)
A Bazin Bibliography
Index.