Bruce Hodsdon on Douglas Sirk - Links to the complete set of articles

Editor's Note: Between 22 April and 17 July 2017  the Film Alert 101 blog published 18 essays by scholar and critic Bruce Hodsdon devoted to the work of the master film-maker Douglas Sirk (Detlef Sierck).

Douglas Sirk

The essays were published on the dates below and if you click on any date you will be taken to each part. 

22 April 2017  (Introduction)

27 April 2017  (Notes on the Weimar and Nazi years)  

2nd May 2017 (The American independent years, 1943-51)

7th May 2017 (Sirk at Universal 1951-53)

14 May 2017 (Sirk at Universal, 1953-57)

16 May 2017 (Sirk at Universal, The Last Films, 1958-59)

17 May 2017 (Klaus Detlef Sierck, 1925-1944)

22 May 2017 (Critical Recognition, the Turning)

30 May 2017 (Sirk Auteur, Part One)

4 June 2017 (Sirk Auteur, Part Two)

12 June 2017 (Drama/melodrama/tragedy)

18 June 2017(Post Sirk:Mass Camp; Genre and the Women's Film)

26 June 2017 The Critical Backlash

27 June 2017  The Legacy

4 July 2017  Sources

12 July 2017 Afterword: American family (melo)drama and comedy on screen. The forties and fifties

13 July 2017 Afterword: The American family on the small screen

13 July 2017The American Family in the cinema: the seventies and after