Book description
BLAKE EDWARDSBlake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur is the first critical analysis to focus on the dramatic works of Blake Edwards. Best known for successful comedies such as The Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards wrote, produced, and directed serious works in radio, television, film, and theater for seven decades. Although hit films such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and ‘10’ remain popular, many of Edwards’s dramas have been forgotten or marginalized.
In this unique book, William Luhr and Peter Lehman draw on original research from numerous set visits and personal interviews with Edwards and many of his creative and business collaborators to explore his dramas, radio and television work, theatrical productions, one-man art shows, and unproduced screenplays. In-depth chapters analyze non-comedic films including Experiment in Terror, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Tamarind Seed, the theatrical feature film Gunn and the made-for-television film Peter Gunn, the musical adaptation of Victor/Victoria, and lesser-known films written but not directed by Edwards, such as Drive a Crooked Road.
Throughout the book, the authors apply contemporary film theory to auteur criticism of different works while sharing original insights into how Edwards worked creatively in disparate genres and media using composition, editing, sound, and visual motifs to shape his films and radio and television series.
A one-of-a-kind examination of one of the most influential film directors of his generation, Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur is an excellent supplementary text for university courses in American cinema, genres, auteurs, and film criticism, and a must-read for critics, scholars, and general readers interested in the works of Blake Edwards.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: “Call Me Blake.”
- CHAPTER 2 The Early Period (1948–1962)
- CHAPTER 3 Mister Cory (1957
- CHAPTER 4 Experiment in Terror (1962)
- CHAPTER 5 Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
- CHAPTER 6 Gunn (1967) and Peter Gunn (1989)
- CHAPTER 7 Wild Rovers (1971)
- CHAPTER 8 The Carey Treatment (1972)
- CHAPTER 9 Julie (1972)
- CHAPTER 10 The Tamarind Seed (1974)
- CHAPTER 11 Sunset (1988)
- CHAPTER 12 The Late Period: Play It Again, Blake
- Appendix 1: Books on Blake Edwards
- Appendix 2: The Interviews
- Index
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Blake Edwards
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2023
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9781119602040
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