Dana Polan

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• Film

  Belgesel

  Film historians discuss the making of the 1965 movie, "Some Came Running." They talk about the director, Vincent Minnelli, the book source and the cast.

  Small Town, Big Picture: The Story of 'Some Came Running'

  2008

• Film

  Belgesel

  Intriguingly unpacks various meanings of the film. The feature presents five perspectives on Dark City: "A Postmodern Film" (Lem Dobbs), "Identity Theft" (UCLA professor Vivian Sobchak), "Worlds Constructed" (NYU professor Dana Polan), "Cities as Spectacle & Collective Memories" (Lem Dobbs and Roger Ebert), and "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber" (Alex Proyas and Rosemary Dinnage)

  Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams

  2008

• Film

  Belgesel

  An interview with New York University Film Studies Professor Dana Polan about Letter from an Unknown Woman by Max Ophüls, tracing the film's production history and situating it within the wave of independent and semi-independent filmmaking in post-war Hollywood, as well as within the context of the 1940s and WWII. An extra on Olive Signature's Blu-Ray release of Letter from an Unknown Woman.

  An Independent Woman: Changing sensibilities in a post-war Hollywood

  2017