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Crooked, but Never Common - The Films of Preston Sturges (Hardcover)
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Crooked, but Never Common - The Films of Preston Sturges (Hardcover)
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In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston
Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939
through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels,
The Palm Beach Story, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek among
them-all from screenplays he alone had written. Cynical and
sophisticated, romantic and sexually frank, crazily breakneck and
endlessly witty, his movies continue to influence filmmakers and
remain popular to this day. Yet despite this acclaim, Sturges's
achievements remain underappreciated: he is too often categorized
as a dialogue writer and plot engineer more than a director, or
belittled as an irresponsible spinner of laughs. In Crooked, but
Never Common, Stuart Klawans combines a critic's insight and a
fan's enthusiasm to offer deeper ways to think about and enjoy
Sturges's work. He provides an in-depth appreciation of all ten of
the writer-director's major movies, presenting Sturges as a
filmmaker whose work balanced slapstick and social critique,
American and European traditions, and cynicism and affection for
his characters. Tugging at loose threads-discontinuities, puzzles,
and allusions that have dangled in plain sight-and putting the
films into a broader cultural context, Klawans reveals structures,
motives, and meanings underlying the uproarious pleasures of
Sturges's movies. In this new light, Sturges emerges at last as one
of the truly great filmmakers-and funnier than ever.
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