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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: An Agile Mind—The Many Stands of Preston Sturges
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Chapter 1 Preston Sturges and Screwball Comedy -
Chapter 2 Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels, and Film Authorship in Hollywood, 1941 -
Chapter 3 To Write and Not Direct -
Chapter 4 “The Edge of Unacceptability”: Preston Sturges and the PCA -
Chapter 5 Sturges’s Many Mothers -
Chapter 6 “These Are Troublous Times”: Social Class in the Comedies of Preston Sturges -
Chapter 7 “They Always Get the Best of You Somehow”: Preston Sturges in Black and White -
Chapter 8 Falling Hard: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock -
Chapter 9 The Unheard Song of Joy -
Chapter 10 The Eye of the Storm: Preston Sturges and Performance -
Chapter 11 Presto(n) con Spirito: Comedies with Music, Sturges-style -
Chapter 12 Thrust with a Rapier and Run: The Critics and Preston Sturges -
Chapter 13 Hail the Conquering Auteur Preston Sturges in La Revue du cinéma (1946–1949) -
Chapter 14 O Preston, Where Art Thou? - Index
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
- Source:
- Refocus: the Films of Preston Sturges
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: An Agile Mind—The Many Stands of Preston Sturges
-
Chapter 1 Preston Sturges and Screwball Comedy -
Chapter 2 Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels, and Film Authorship in Hollywood, 1941 -
Chapter 3 To Write and Not Direct -
Chapter 4 “The Edge of Unacceptability”: Preston Sturges and the PCA -
Chapter 5 Sturges’s Many Mothers -
Chapter 6 “These Are Troublous Times”: Social Class in the Comedies of Preston Sturges -
Chapter 7 “They Always Get the Best of You Somehow”: Preston Sturges in Black and White -
Chapter 8 Falling Hard: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock -
Chapter 9 The Unheard Song of Joy -
Chapter 10 The Eye of the Storm: Preston Sturges and Performance -
Chapter 11 Presto(n) con Spirito: Comedies with Music, Sturges-style -
Chapter 12 Thrust with a Rapier and Run: The Critics and Preston Sturges -
Chapter 13 Hail the Conquering Auteur Preston Sturges in La Revue du cinéma (1946–1949) -
Chapter 14 O Preston, Where Art Thou? - Index
