King Vidor, American
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King Vidor, American

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King Vidor, American

About this book

This in-depth look at Hollywood director King Vidor's complex career follows Vidor from his first attempts to rival Hollywood in his home state of Texas through his fifty-year-long struggle with the "classic" Hollywood studio system.
This in-depth look at Hollywood director King Vidor's complex career follows Vidor from his first attempts to rival Hollywood in his home state of Texas through his fifty-year-long struggle with the "classic" Hollywood studio system.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents 1
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. A Note on the Illustrations
  8. 1 Introduction Vidor times Four
  9. 2 Hollywood versus America
  10. 3 1913 to 1925 “Into the Vale of Soul Making”
  11. 4 1925 to 1928 “Silent and Amazed”
  12. 5 1929 to 1935 “Looking Forth on Pavement and Land”
  13. 6 1935 to 1944: “Through Dim Lulls of Unapparent Growth”
  14. 7 1945 to 1955 “Sing the Body Electric”
  15. 8 1956 to 1959 “Where the Technicolored End of Evening Smiles”
  16. 9 Envoi I accept the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience”
  17. Notes
  18. Filmography
  19. Select Bibliography
  20. Index