Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood DreamMacmillan, 04/02/2003 - 420 páginas Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It's also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great-and who were, in turn, destroyed by it. One of the most critically admired films of the twentieth century, Sunset Boulevard is also famous as silent star Gloria Swanson's comeback picture. |
Índice
Voice Over 1948 | 1 |
A La Recherche de Norma Desmond | 4 |
When Queens Collide | 11 |
The Happiest Couple in Hollywood | 15 |
Chaz | 37 |
Who is Gloria Swanson? | 47 |
The Cameras Have Arrived | 71 |
The Bedroom of Norma Desmond | 82 |
Funny How Gentle People Get with You Once Youre Dead | 224 |
Popcorn in Beverly Hills with Nancy | 232 |
Buttons and Bows | 246 |
Men in Uniform | 252 |
Well Make Another Picture and Another Picture | 274 |
Sunset Culdesac | 295 |
Life Upon the Wicked Stage | 303 |
Fifteen Minutes of Closeups | 309 |
Thats Why the Lady Has a Chimp | 95 |
Ten Thousand Midnights Ago | 101 |
All Right Mr DeMille Im Ready for My Closeup | 118 |
Chiffon Velvet Chinchilla Tulle Brocade Taffeta Ermine and LeopardPrinted Crêpe | 126 |
If Its a Paramount Picture Its the Best Show in Town | 136 |
Fiasco | 148 |
The Whole Audience Stood Up and Cheered | 154 |
And the Winner Isnt Gloria Swanson | 173 |
Ive Got Nobody Floating in My Pool | 188 |
Boulevard | 202 |
A Dethroned Queen | 316 |
If They Put All the Norma Desmonds on an Island Which One Would Survive? | 354 |
Billy Wilder from Noir to Blackout | 363 |
Lux Perpetua | 374 |
Acknowledgments | 381 |
Selected Bibliography | 385 |
Notes | 389 |
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Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark ... Sam Staggs Pré-visualização limitada - 2002 |
Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark ... Sam Staggs Pré-visualização limitada - 2003 |
Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark ... Sam Staggs Pré-visualização limitada - 2003 |