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The Films of Reginald Leborg

Interviews, Essays, and Filmography

Wheeler Winston Dixon

This is the first in-depth look at Reginald LeBorg, the quintessential Hollywood contract director, who worked constantly during the 1940s and 50s at such studios as Universal, PRC, and Monogram, making a series of beautiful and resonant films under severe constraints of time and budget. Here, in a book-length interview recorded a year before his death in 1989, LeBorg looks back at all his work—Destiny, Calling Doctor Death, Weird Woman, The Flight That Disappeared, Jungle Woman, Diary of A Madman, San Diego I Love You, and many others, and discusses his impatience with "fans" who don't bother to screen his more interesting non-Gothic films, describes studio life during the 1940s, and gives the reader insights into his personal life. With stills and a thorough filmography.
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Scarecrow Press
Pages: 203 • Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-0-8108-2550-5 • Hardback • September 1992 • $79.00 • (£61.00)
Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
Subjects: Performing Arts / Individual Director, Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Wheeler Winston Dixon, Chair, Film Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is author of The Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut (Indiana, forthcoming), The Cinematic Vision of F.Scott Fitzgerald, and The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher (Scarecrow, 1991). Dixon has also written for The Velvet Light Trap, Post Script, The New Orleans Review, Film Criticism, and Cineaste. His films and videotapes have been screened at the Whitney Museum, the Kithen, and the Jewish Museum. In Spring, 1992, he served as Guest Curator for a series on "Dystopian Science-Fiction" at the National Film Theatre in London.
...a fascinating insight...
— Samhain


The Films of Reginald Leborg

Interviews, Essays, and Filmography

Cover Image
Hardback
Summary
Summary
  • This is the first in-depth look at Reginald LeBorg, the quintessential Hollywood contract director, who worked constantly during the 1940s and 50s at such studios as Universal, PRC, and Monogram, making a series of beautiful and resonant films under severe constraints of time and budget. Here, in a book-length interview recorded a year before his death in 1989, LeBorg looks back at all his work—Destiny, Calling Doctor Death, Weird Woman, The Flight That Disappeared, Jungle Woman, Diary of A Madman, San Diego I Love You, and many others, and discusses his impatience with "fans" who don't bother to screen his more interesting non-Gothic films, describes studio life during the 1940s, and gives the reader insights into his personal life. With stills and a thorough filmography.
Details
Details
  • Scarecrow Press
    Pages: 203 • Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
    978-0-8108-2550-5 • Hardback • September 1992 • $79.00 • (£61.00)
    Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
    Subjects: Performing Arts / Individual Director, Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Author
Author
  • Wheeler Winston Dixon, Chair, Film Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is author of The Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut (Indiana, forthcoming), The Cinematic Vision of F.Scott Fitzgerald, and The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher (Scarecrow, 1991). Dixon has also written for The Velvet Light Trap, Post Script, The New Orleans Review, Film Criticism, and Cineaste. His films and videotapes have been screened at the Whitney Museum, the Kithen, and the Jewish Museum. In Spring, 1992, he served as Guest Curator for a series on "Dystopian Science-Fiction" at the National Film Theatre in London.
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  • ...a fascinating insight...
    — Samhain


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