Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Critical Essays with an Annotated Bibliography and a Filmography

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Barefoot Contessa, and All About Eve--just three of the most well-known films of writer, director, and producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz. This work contains critical essays about the man and his work, as well as a guide to resources, an annotated bibliography, and a filmography. The essays on each of his films are categorized under Mankiewicz's Dark Cinema, The Mankiewicz Woman, Filmed Theatre, and Literary Adaptations. The annotated bibliography includes writings by and about Mankiewicz; the filmography includes full cast and credit information and other data. Information on Mankiewicz's awards, miscellaneous and unrealized projects, and film festivals honoring him is also provided

Author: Cheryl Bray Lower
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 01/27/2014
Pages: 298
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780786493791
ISBN10: 0786493798
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | Direction & Production

About the Author
Cheryl Bray Lower is a journalist and award-winning news photographer. She is the only scholar to have had complete access to the private papers of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University. He has published numerous works on the English, French, and Latin literature of the later Middle Ages, and is the translator, with William Kibler and others, of several anthologies of medieval texts. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.