Movie Love in the Fifties - by James Harvey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A masterly work of American film and cultural history by a critic who, "like Pauline Kael, has the gift of describing actors with terrific acuity."-New York Times<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>What I set out to do is to help you see movies better, to experience them more deeply and sharply and richly, says James Harvey. And his critical method-reading a movie moment by moment, scene by scene-reveals new layers of meaning in even the most familiar films. See how 1940s film noir evolves into 1950s melodrama; how the femme fatale of the 1940s (think Barbara Stanwyck) becomes blander and blonder (think Doris Day) and then younger and sexier (yes, Marilyn); and how the new boy-men-Clift, Brando, Dean-finally steal the show. Harvey also discusses the directors: Hitchcock, Ophuls, Kazan, Welles. Comprehensive, vivid, and charismatic, Movie Love in the Fifties is a fresh look at the films, directors, and actors of a dynamic decade. Whether he's escorting us through Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory, Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, Orson Welles's Magnificent Ambersons, or any one of a dozen other great films from the period, Harvey lends us an astuteness of analysis and a power of observation that we couldn't have had on our own. -- Wendy Lesser, <i> The American Prospect<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>James Harvey</b> is a playwright, essayist, critic, and author several books on the movies. His most recent work has appeared in the <i>New York Review of Books</i> and the <i>Threepenny Review</i>. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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