Essays Und Filmtexte Von Jonathan Rosenbaum
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ESSAYS UND FILMTEXTE VON JONATHAN ROSENBAUM ESSAYS Introduction Some Noises from an Unquiet American 11 Einleitung Einige Äußerungen eines unruhigen Amerikaners 21 Sweet And Sour Lubitsch and Wilder in Old Hollywood 33 Süß und sauer Lubitsch und Wilder in Old Hollywood 39 Orson Welles' Essay Films and Documentary Fictions A Two-Part Speculation 47 Tashlinesque 57 Tashlinesk 61 The Mysterious Elaine May Hiding in Plain Sight 66 Die rätselhafte Elaine May Vor aller Augen übersehen 71 Manuel De Landa 77 Albert Brooks, Triple-Threat Truth-Teller 83 Albert Brooks, dreifach bedrohliche Wahrheiten 87 Sara Driver's Dream Dog 93 Gold Diggers of 1953 Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 95 Die Goldgräber von 1953 HowardHawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 104 Take Two The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. 114 Flaming Creatures and Scotch Tape 118 Hairspray Waters in the Mainstream 123 Rushmore In a Worldofhis Own 127 Bibliografische Informationen digitalisiert durch http://d-nb.info/997055472 FILME CHAPTER ONE AMERICANS ABROAD The Three Caballeros (1944), Norman Ferguson 133 The Fountain of Youth (1958), Orson Welles 133 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), Ernst Lubitsch 135 Avanti! (1972), Billy Wilder 135 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Howard Hawks 137 Ishtar (1987), Elaine May 137 Mr. Freedom (1969), William Klein 138 Matinee (1993), Joe Dante 140 CHAPTER TWO CLASS TENSIONS AND ETHNIC TENSIONS Christmas in July (1940), Preston Sturges 141 Hairspray (1988), John Waters 141 Laughter (1930), Harry d'Abaddie d'Arrast 143 Joan Does Dynasty (1986), Joan Braderman 143 Chameleon Street (1989), Wendell B. Harris Jr. 144 Rushmore (1998), Wes Anderson 144 The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Elaine May 146 Lost in America (1985), Albert Brooks 146 Bulworth (1998), Warren Beatty 148 CHAPTER THREE CULTURAL PROBLEMS When the Clouds Roll by ( 1919), Victor Fleming & Theodore Reed 150 Artists and Models (1955), Frank Tashlin 150 Rhapsody Rabbit (1946), Friz Freleng 152 Down with Love (2003), Peyton Reed 152 Kiss me, Stupid (1964), Billy Wilder 154 When Pigs Fly (1993), Sara Driver 154 When It Rains (1995), Charles Burnett 155 The King of Comedy (1983), Martin Scorsese 155 What's Opera, Doc? (1957), Chuck Jones 157 Idiocracy (2006), Mike Judge 157 Flaming Creatures (1963), Jack Smith 159 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. I (1953), Roy Rowland 159 CHAPTER FOUR DECONSTRUCTIVE AND ROMANTIC ANARCHY 1941 (1979), Steven Spielberg 160 Two Tars (1928), James Parrott 160 Sherlock jr. (1924), Buster Keaton 162 Who Killed Who? (1943), Tex Avery 162 Wide Angle Saxon (1975), Owen Land 162 Real Life (1979), Albert Brooks 164 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), Frank Tashlin 164 Stoopnocracy (1933), Dave Fleischer 165 Screwball Squirrel ( 1944), Tex Avery 165 Duck Amuck (1953), Chuck Jones 166 Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches (1979), Manuel De Landa 166 On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be \Í7¿O/Í>¿.3 (1977-79), Owen Land 166 Duck Soup (1933), Leo McCarey 168 The Music Box (1932), James Parrott 168 Adaptation (2002), Spike Jonze 170 CHAPTER FIVE SEXUAL DILEMMAS Adam's Rib (1949), George Cukor 171 Hot Times aka My Erotic Fantasies ( 1974), Jim McBride 171 My Son's Wedding to my Sister-In-Laio (2008), Jim McBride 174 The Ladies Man (1961), Jerry Lewis 175 Little Rural RidingHood (1949), Tex Avery 175 Turnabout (1940), Hal Roach 177 A Spy in the House that Ruth Built (1989), Vanalyne Green 179 Female Trouble (1974), John Waters 179 Lord Love a Duck (196b), George Axelrod 179 Monkey Business (1952), Howard Hawks 180 Seven Chances (1925), Buster Keaton 180 Biografíe Jonathan Rosenbaum 183 Fotonachweis 184.