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Sunset Boulevard (Paperback)
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Sunset Boulevard (Paperback)
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial
success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir
and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its
opening, with William Holden as the screenwriter Joe Gillis
floating facedown in ageing star Norma Desmond's (Gloria Swanson)
pool, and lines such as 'I am big, it's the pictures that got
small' are some of the most memorable in Classical Hollywood
cinema. Steven Cohan's study of the film draws on original archival
research to shed new light on the film's production history, and
the contribution to the film's success and meanings of director
Wilder, stars Holden and Swanson but also supporting actors Erich
von Stroheim, Nancy Olson (who plays Betty Schaefer), Cecil B.
DeMille, and Hedda Hopper, as well as costumier Edith Head, and
composer Franz Waxman. Cohan considers the film both as a
'backstudio' picture (a movie about Hollywood) and as a film noir,
and in the context of McCarthyism, blacklisting and the Hollywood
Ten. Cohan explores how the film was marketed, its reception and
afterlife, tracing how the film is at once a product of its own
particular historical moment as the movie industry was
transitioning out of the studio era, yet one that still speaks
powerfully to contemporary audiences, and speculates on the reasons
for its enduring appeal.
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