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The World and its Double
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Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. He sought to address the major social, political, and historical questions of his time in films designed to appeal to a wide public. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and homosexuality (Advise and Consent) and in the frank, sophisticated treatment of adult material (Anatomy of a Murder), Preminger in the process broke the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code and the blacklist. He also made some of Hollywood's most enduring film noir classics, including Laura and Fallen Angel. An Austrian émigré, Preminger began his Hollywood career in 1936 as a contract director. When the conditions emerged that led to the fall of the studio system, he had the insight to perceive them clearly and the boldness to take advantage of them, turning himself into one of America's most powerful filmmakers. More than anyone else, Preminger represented the transition from the Hollywod of the studios to the decentralized, wheeling and dealing New Hollywood of today. Chris Fujiwara's critical biography--the first in more than thirty years--follows Preminger throughout his varied career, penetrating his carefully constructed public persona and revealing the many layers of his work.
About the Author:
Chris Fujiwara is the author of Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall and a film critic for the Boston Phoenix and other publications. He is currently at work on a study of the films of Jerry Lewis.
Press Reviews:
"Chris Fujiwara is one of those rare viewers of cinema who combines immense breadth —has he seen everything?, one wonders in awe—with a sharpness and rigor of analytic insight. In this vein, Fujiwara offers up a compelling biography of Otto Preminger that is at the same time a wonderful close and critical investigation of the films themselves in all their complex detail. This is a rich, rewarding unique volume that sets the standard in the study of this key director in the history of American cinema."—Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University
"Famous for his courting of controversy and his volatile manners on the set, Otto Preminger was also a great and still underestimated American filmmaker. Chris Fujiwara, with a keen eye for cinematic detail and a sure grasp of the historical background, gives Preminger’s work the serious and subtle analysis it deserves." —Geoffrey O’Brien , author of The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century "One of our most perceptive writers about film."--Bob Stephens, San Francisco Examiner Magazine
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Newer edition
The World and its Double (2023)
The Life and Work of Otto Preminger
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Director > Otto Preminger
See the complete filmography of Otto Preminger on the website: IMDB ...
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