Jon Halliday was born in Dublin in June 1939. He is the author or editor of nine books, including
Douglas Sirk (with Laura Mulvey, 1972), as well as works on Japan, Korea, Albania, and the psychology of gambling. From 1970 to 1976 he was a member of the editorial board of
Screen magazine. He is the author of
Sirk on Sirk and, with his wife Jung Chang,
Mao: The
Unknown Story.
Douglas Sirk is one of the most neglected directors in American cinema. This book aims to rectify that and, through a survey of his career, to re-establish Sirk as one of the great stylists of Hollywood cinema.In 1937 Sirk left Germany, after a successful career in theatre and film,...
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