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The Call of the Heart : John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama, Paperback / softback Book

The Call of the Heart : John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama Paperback / softback

Edited by Bruce Babington, Charles Barr

Paperback / softback

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The profusion of research on film history means that there are now few Hollywood filmmakers in the category of Neglected Master; John M Stahl (1886–1950) has been stuck in it for far too long.

His strong association with melodrama and the womans film is a key to this neglect; those mainstays of popular cinema are no longer the object of critical scorn or indifference, but Stahl has until now hardly benefited from this welcome change in attitude.

His remarkable silent melodramas were either lost, or buried in archives, while his major sound films such as Imitation of Life and Magnificent Obsession, equally successful in their time, have been overshadowed by the glamour of the 1950s remakes by Douglas Sirk.

Sirk is a far from neglected figure; Stahls much longer Hollywood career deserves attention and celebration in its own right, as this book definitively shows.

Drawing on a wide range of film and document archives, scholars from three continents come together to cover Stahls work, as director and also producer, from its beginnings during World War I to his death, as a still active filmmaker, in 1950.

Between them they make a strong case for Stahl as an important figure in cinema history, and as author of many films that still have the power to move their audiences.

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