EAN: 9781839024085

SUNSET BOULEVARD - STEVEN COHAN KARTONIERT (TB)

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950
and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood.
Both its opening  with William Holden as the screenwriter Joe Gillis floating facedown in
ageing star Norma Desmond's (Gloria Swanson) pool  and lines such as 'I am big  it's the
pictures that got small' are some of the most memorable in Classical Hollywood cinema. Steven
Cohan's study of the film draws on original archival research to shed new light on the film's
production history  and the contribution to the film's success and meanings of director Wilder
stars Holden and Swanson but also supporting actors Erich von Stroheim  Nancy Olson (who plays
Betty Schaefer)  Cecil B. DeMille  and Hedda Hopper  as well as costumier Edith Head  and
composer Franz Waxman. Cohan considers the film both as a 'backstudio' picture (a movie about
Hollywood) and as a film noir  and in the context of McCarthyism  blacklisting and the
Hollywood Ten. Cohan explores how the film was marketed  its reception and afterlife  tracing
how the film is at once a product of its own particular historical moment as the movie industry
was transitioning out of the studio era  yet one that still speaks powerfully to contemporary
audiences  and speculates on the reasons for its enduring appeal.

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