The World and its Double - The Life and Work of Otto Preminger

Informationen zum Autor Chris Fujiwara is a writer! film critic! journalist! editor! and translator. He is the general editor of Defining Moments in Movies (Cassell Illustrated)! and the author of Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall (Johns Hopkins University Press.) The World and its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger , by Chris Fujiwara, is a fascinating re-examination of a famously volatile and much misunderstood Hollywood maestro. Zusammenfassung Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and homosexuality (Advise and Consent), Preminger broke the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code and the blacklist, while creating some of Hollywood's most enduring film noir classics.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Fujiwara, Fujiwara Chris
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2009
• EAN: 9780571223701
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22370-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 237 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography: arts and entertainment, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Drugs; Film makers; Film Noir; Homosexuality; Mavericks