The films of Robert Wise

"In The Films of Robert Wise, Richard C. Keenan examines the nearly forty features that represent the director's career, from The Curse of the Cat People (1944) to A Storm in Summer (2001), the only television production Wise ever directed. Keenan argues that if there were a flaw in Robert Wise as a director, it was that he lacked the ego and temperament of the artist, which was not necessarily a flaw at all. Indeed, Wise was a conscientious craftsman who primarily saw his work as not a vehicle for his own ideas and visual style but as an opportunity to present narrative that - quite simply - engages, informs, and entertains." "Drawing on more than thirty hours of interviews with Wise, as well as additional interviews with a number of his collaborators, Keenan offers a reassessment of the director's work. In his analysis or each film, Keenan reveals Wise as craftsman and artist."--BOOK JACKET.