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by Cheryl Bray Lower (Author), R. Barton Palmer (Author)
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 Biography
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.
