Imitation of Life

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Contents: Introduction Three-Way Mirror: Imitation of Life = 3 Lucy Fischer Douglas Sirk: A Biographical Sketch = 29 Imitation of Life Credits and Cast = 41 The Continuity Script = 43 Contexts Source Excerpts from Imitation of Life = 161 Fannie Hurst Zora Hurston: A Personality Sketch = 173 Fannie Hurst Two Women in Particular = 177 Zora Neale Hurston The Production/ The Star Imitation of Life: Production Notes = 183 Four Films of Lana Turner = 186 Richard Dyer Performing Performing: Irony and Affect = 207 Charles Affron The Bad & the Beautiful = 216 The Director: Interviews Sirkumstantial Evidence = 221 James Harvey Sirk on Sirk = 226 Jon Halliday Reviews and Commentaries Reviews Cue = 237 New York Herald Tribune = 239 Paul V. Beckley New York Times = 241 Bosley Crowher Time = 243 Six Films by Douglas Sirk = 244 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Commentaries The Films of Douglas Sirk = 251 Fred Camper Distanciation and Douglas Sirk = 268 Paul Willemen Towards as Analysis of the Sirkian System = 273 Paul Willemen Imitation of Life = 279 Michael Stern Imitation of Life (1934 and 1959): Style and the Domestic Melodrama = 289 Jeremy G. Butler "What's the Matter with Sarah Jane?": Daughters and Mohers in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life = 302 Marina Heung Imitation(s) of life: The Black Woman's Double Determination as Troubling "Ohter" = 325 Sandy Flitterman-Lewis Filmography and Bibliography Sirk Filmography, 1934-1959 = 339 Selected Bibliography = 343

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