Pomp(ous) Sirk-umstance: Intertextuality, Adaptation, and All That Heaven Allows

Authors

Walter C. Metz, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleFollow

Comments

Published in the UIP Journal of Film and Video.

Abstract

This essay questions the presumed modernist authorship of Douglas Sirk by studying the similar gestures in the source novel of All That Heaven Allows (1955), a work by Edna Lee first published in The Woman's Home Companion magazine.

Recommended Citation

Metz, Walter C. "Pomp(ous) Sirk-umstance: Intertextuality, Adaptation, and All That Heaven Allows." The Journal of Film and Video 45, No. 4 (Winter 1993): 3-21.