Crooked, But Never Common - The Films of Preston Sturges

In Crooked, but Never Common, Stuart Klawans combines a critic's insight and a fan's enthusiasm to offer deeper ways to think about and enjoy Preston Sturges's work. He provides an in-depth appreciation of all ten of the writer-director's major movies.

List of contents

1. Instead of an Introduction: A Rhetoric of Preston Sturges
2. Ya Can't Get Away from Arithmetic: The Great McGinty
3. He Thinks He Has Ideas: Christmas in July
4. I'm Not a Poet, I'm an Ophiologist: The Lady Eve
5. As You Are, So Shall You Remain: Sullivan's Travels
6. Topic A: The Palm Beach Story
7. Homo Sapiens, the Wise Guy: Triumph Over Pain
8. Psycholology: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
9. That's All You Know How to Hurt: Hail the Conquering Hero
10. You Arouse the Artist in Me: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
11. Every Emotion Was Exaggerated: Unfaithfully Yours
12. Instead of a Conclusion: A Genealogy of Preston Sturges
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Stuart Klawans

Summary

In Crooked, but Never Common, Stuart Klawans combines a critic’s insight and a fan’s enthusiasm to offer deeper ways to think about and enjoy Preston Sturges’s work. He provides an in-depth appreciation of all ten of the writer-director’s major movies.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Klawans, Klawans Stuart
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780231207294
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20729-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, performing arts; film; Preston Sturges