{"title":"Sirk and John M. Stahl","authors":"T. Ryan","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Sirk remade three films that were originally directed by John M. Stahl in the 1930s, his versions based on fictions by well-known novelists. This chapter focuses on how the various intersections and divergences between the three versions of “the same story” amount to an implicit dialogue, even a three-way debate, between a novelist and two filmmakers (and their other collaborators) about how best to tell that story.","PeriodicalId":321511,"journal":{"name":"The Films of Douglas Sirk","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121024904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hollywood, Rock Hudson, and the Idea of the Hero","authors":"T. Ryan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvgs08sg.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs08sg.11","url":null,"abstract":"Like his better-known work, these adventure films point to Sirk’s love affair with American populist art, which he took very seriously. All are genre films about men who find themselves in positions of leadership in times of turmoil, characters whom one might conventionally regard as heroes. And they’re all played by Rock Hudson who brings to them a distinct and very human vulnerability.","PeriodicalId":321511,"journal":{"name":"The Films of Douglas Sirk","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121140654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the Shadows","authors":"T. Ryan","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is a discussion of the Sirk films in which the influence of noir is discernible, less in the plotting than in the way the films have been shot, not only in terms of their use of light and dark but in the visual relationships they establish between individuals or groups and their surroundings.","PeriodicalId":321511,"journal":{"name":"The Films of Douglas Sirk","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127222345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Out of the Past","authors":"T. Ryan","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Two of Sirk’s last three films were driven by the experiences of earlier times. The Tarnished Angels, adapted from William Faulkner’s Pylon, was a project he’d originally planned to make at UFA; A Time to Love and a Time to Die is a drama about Germany in a state of collapse towards the end of World War II and tells a story that was very close to Sirk’s heart. Both provide evidence of a filmmaker working at the peak of his art.","PeriodicalId":321511,"journal":{"name":"The Films of Douglas Sirk","volume":"301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121460677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sirk, the Family Melodrama, and the Production Code","authors":"T. Ryan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvgs08sg.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs08sg.12","url":null,"abstract":"For Sirk, all that the Motion Picture Production Code disallowed served as a stimulus to creativity, a challenge he didn’t exactly welcome but that turned out to be beneficial. His melodramas about families and would-be lovers become tales of ideological entrapment, of characters locked behind bars that they can’t see and so can’t escape.","PeriodicalId":321511,"journal":{"name":"The Films of Douglas Sirk","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128897049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Into the Future","authors":"T. Ryan","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Sirk died in 1987. His films are his legacy, and they’ve already influenced several generations of cineastes. Among them are film critics in Europe, America and beyond and filmmakers such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Todd Haynes, Kathryn Bigelow and, more recently, Luca Guadagnino and Guillermo Del Toro. This chapter examines the legacy and the reasons particular films have been described as “Sirkian”.","PeriodicalId":321511,"journal":{"name":"The Films of Douglas Sirk","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120984693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sirk and God","authors":"T. Ryan","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses how Sirk’s films in which religion plays an important part aren’t concerned with whether or not there is a God. Instead their focus is firmly fixed on those who believe in some higher power or who don’t. And what matters is their humanity, or lack of it, and the existential crises they might face, whatever their beliefs.","PeriodicalId":321511,"journal":{"name":"The Films of Douglas Sirk","volume":"288 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132616482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detlef Sierck in Europe","authors":"T. Ryan","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvgs08sg.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs08sg.5","url":null,"abstract":"Detailed analysis and contextualisation of Sirk’s work in Germany, when he was employed by UFA studios during Hitler’s rise to power. And afterwards, when he worked elsewhere in Europe, prior to his flight to America.","PeriodicalId":321511,"journal":{"name":"The Films of Douglas Sirk","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129128302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Into the Future:","authors":"E. Towns, W. Bird","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvgs08sg.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs08sg.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":321511,"journal":{"name":"The Films of Douglas Sirk","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121495190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}