This second edition of William Rothman's classic includes fourteen new essays and a new foreword. Half-title. Title. Copyright. Dedication. Contents. Foreword to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgments. Notes on the Essays....
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This second edition of William Rothman's classic includes fourteen new essays and a new foreword. Half-title. Title. Copyright. Dedication. Contents. Foreword to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgments. Notes on the Essays. CHAPTER 1 Hollywood Reconsidered: Reflections on the Classical American Cinema. CHAPTER 2 D. W. Griffith and the Birth of the Movies. CHAPTER 3 Judith of Bethulia. CHAPTER 4 True Heart Griffith. CHAPTER 5 The Ending of City Lights. CHAPTER 6 The Goddess: Reflections on Melodrama East and West. CHAPTER 7 Red Dust: The Erotic Screen Image. CHAPTER 8 Virtue and Villainy in the Face of the Camera. CHAPTER 9 Pathos and Transfiguration in the Face of the Camera: A Reading of Stella Dallas. CHAPTER 10 Viewing the World in Black and White: Race and the Melodrama of the Unknown Woman. Now, Voyager. Stella Dallas. Blonde Venus. Show Boat. Imitation of Life. CHAPTER 11 Howard Hawks and Bringing Up Baby. CHAPTER 12 The Filmmaker in the Film: Octave and the Rules of Renoir's Game. Octave's Role. Renoir's Game. CHAPTER 13 Stagecoach and the Quest for Selfhood. The Initial Encounter. The Encounter at the Way Station. The Final Encounter. CHAPTER 14 To Have and Have Not Adapted a Film from a Novel. Neutral Traces of the Process of Adaptation. Action Lifted Bodily from Novel to Film. The Character of Harry Morgan. The Romance. Plot Design. Theme. Narrative Technique. CHAPTER 15 Hollywood and the Rise of Suburbia. CHAPTER 16 Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder and the Postwar American Cinema. Double Indemnity. Sunset Boulevard. Some Like It Hot. The Apartment. CHAPTER 17 The River. CHAPTER 18 Vertigo: The Unknown Woman in Hitchcock. CHAPTER 19 North by Northwest: Hitchcock's Monument to the Hitchcock Film. Cary Grant. Eve Kendall. The Villains.
