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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807799303321

Autore

Delson Susan

Titolo

Dudley Murphy, Hollywood wild card / / Susan Delson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8166-9769-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302/33092

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Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

"Filmography of Dudley Murphy": p. 227-230.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: At the Edge of the Frame; 1. Rooted in Art; 2. Greek Goddesses for the Movie going Public; 3. Vexed and Disputed: The Multiple Histories of Ballet mécanique; 4. Into the Mainstream; 5. The Beginning of the Audible Period; 6. Not Murder but Mayhem: Hollywood Again; 7. Between Pictures; 8. Stepping out of the System: The Making of The Emperor Jones; 9. An Equivocal Independence; 10. Changing Direction; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; FILMOGRAPHY OF DUDLEY MURPHY; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Dudley Murphy (1897-1968) was one of early Hollywood's most intriguing figures. Active from the 1920's through the 1940's, Murphy was one of the industry's first independents and a guiding intelligence behind some of the key films in early twentieth-century cinema. In the first full-length biography of Murphy, Susan Delson gives full rein to an American original whose life was as audacious as his films.