Written on the Wind (BFI Film Classics)

Written on the Wind (BFI Film Classics)

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<DIV><I>Written on the Wind</I> (1956) is one of classical Hollywood's most striking films and<BR>ranks among Douglas Sirk's finest achievements. An intense melodrama about<BR>an alcoholic playboy who marries the woman his best friend secretly loves,<BR>the film is highly stylised, psychologically complex, and marked by Sirk's<BR>characteristic charting of the social realities of 1950s America.<BR><BR><BR>This first single study of <I>Written on the Wind</I> reassesses the film's artistic<BR>heritage and place within the wider framework of contemporary American<BR>culture. Incorporating original archival research, Peter William Evans examines<BR>the production, promotion and reception of <I>Written on the Wind</I>, exploring its<BR>themes – of time, memory, space, family, class and sex – as well as its brilliance<BR>of form. Its vivid aesthetics, powerful performances and profound treatment<BR>of human emotions, make <I>Written on the Wind</I> a masterpiece of Hollywood<BR>melodrama.<BR></div>