Escape Artist - The Life and Films of John Sturges

Informationen zum Autor Glenn Lovell is the former film critic for the San Jose Mercury News . He has written for the Los Angeles Times , Miami Herald , Variety , and Columbia Journalism Review . He teaches film studies at De Anza College and other schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. He contributed to Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist , by Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle. Klappentext "Escape Artist"--based on Glenn Lovell's extensive interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars including Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, and Jane Russell--is the first biography of the director of such acclaimed films as "The Magnificent Seven," "The Great Escape," and "Bad Day at Black Rock." Zusammenfassung A biography of John Sturges. It examines his childhood in California during the Great Depression; his apprenticeship in the editing department of RKO Pictures! where he worked on such films as ""Gunga Din""; his service in the Army Air Corps in WWII; and his emergence as one of the first independent producer-directors in Hollywood.

Product details

• Authors: Glenn Lovell
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9780299228347
• ISBN: 978-0-299-22834-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Wisconsin Film Studies; Wisconsin Studies in Film; Wisconsin Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies