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	"Imitation of Life"--Stahl and Sirk by Jeremy Butler
		At the altar, life ceases to consist of the couple's adventure in romance and becomes the family's struggle for survival.
		IMITATION OF LIFE (1934) well represents each of these tenets and illustrates how a topical theme (racial inequality) becomes shaped to fit the genre's demands: Peola's mother becomes the target of her anger as the anger remains displaced from its true target, white societal structures.
		Sirk's IMITATION OF LIFE has as its theme not the importance of success and the validity of maternal sacrifice, but the corrupting influence of ambition and the incompatibility of romance and prosperity.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC32folder/ImitationLifex2.html (5424 words)

	Imitation of Life
		Douglas Sirk's 1959 version of Imitation of Life is a classic film about the relations between women and the relations between white and fl women.
		Imitation of Life's focus on women's issues is perhaps no coincidence since the original novel was written by Fannie Hurst and some of the script writing was done by Eleanore Griffin; these women likely brought pieces of 1950's life into the film.
		Imitation of Life then is truly life, though perhaps 1950's society would like us to believe Lora Meredith is a bad imitation of a mother.
	www.wellesley.edu /Writing/Strongwomen/imlife.html (630 words)

	Imitation of Life
		Imitation of Life is a delight from beginning to end, with Lana looking ravishing in Jean Louis gowns and more than a million dollars in jewels.
		Imitation of Life* was first made at Universal Studios in 1934 as a vehicle for Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers (in the Turner and Moore roles).
		Imitation of Life was and is a beautifully put together film and Universal really missed the boat by not giving it a full restoration treatment.
	www.lanaturneronline.com /imitation_of_life.htm (1221 words)

	"Imitation of Life" by Richard Henke
		However, to read IMITATION OF LIFE simply as an intentional work of camp falls into the same bind that has troubled feminist and neo-Marxist critics of Sirk, for such a reading locates the significance of the work solely in the film's deliberate, albeit "campy," representations of race and gender.
		IMITATION OF LIFE may he "sympathetic" to Annie, but arguably its sympathy is based on stereotypes, which are attacked elsewhere in the film (mainly through the character of Sara Jane).
		For example, part of the complexity of that final scene of IMITATION OF LIFE with which 1 opened this essay — and to some degree the difficulty that critics find in interpreting it — is that multiple types of camp are simultaneously applicable.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC39folder/imitationLife.html (6075 words)

	Imitation of Life (1934) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Universal remade "Imitation of Life" in 1959 starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner in the Colbert, William, Hudson, Beavers and Washington roles.
		To see "Imitation of Life" of 1934 is to accept it for what it really is, a 1930s "soap opera" about mother love.
		"Imitation of Life," which runs almost two hours in length, was first presented on American Movie Classics for a while from 1990 to 91, and made its Turner Classic Movies premiere October 26, 2001.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0025301 (1002 words)

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		Imitation of Life reimagines Zbigniew Rybczynski’s Academy Award-winning short Tango (1982), itself a take-off of the stateroom sequence in A Night at the Opera.
		Despite Jennings’ self-conscious imitation of life, the intention is not to degrade or misrepresent the way new media frequently does.
		But Imitation of Life succeeds because it doesn’t pretend creative naivete (even with such pretense there is no Dogma 95 film that is not also dramatically turgid).
	www.nypress.com /14/23/film/film2.cfm (1532 words)

	Imitation of Life (1959 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Imitation of Life is a 1959 film directed by Douglas Sirk, adapted from Fannie Hurst's novel Imitation of Life, produced by Universal as a vehicle for Lana Turner.
		It is a remake of the 1934 Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Robert Alda, Susan Kohner, Dan O'Herlihy, and Juanita Moore.
		Imitation of Life was produced immediately following the trial of Lana Turner's daughter Cheryl Crane on charges of murder for having killed Turner's lover, a gangster named Johnny Stompanato.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imitation_of_Life_(1959_film) (1559 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Imitation of Life at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Imitation of Life is one of Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic soap operas from the 1950’s, and is certainly worthwhile for anyone who wants to see rich people, lurid situations, and high emotions.
		There are two men in her life -- the playwright, of course, and John Gavin, who strikes up an interest in Turner after delivering his photos of the children on the beach.
		In turn, Imitation of Life isn’t any deeper, but is certainly just as entertaining.
	www.epinions.com /content_87652798084 (1099 words)

	Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life (1959)
		In Imitation of Life, we see the lives of four women and their attempts to make their lives more than mere imitations of life.
		Read a biographical sketch of the author who wrote both the novel Imitation of Life and the screenplay for all three versions of the film, Fannie Hurst (1889-1968).
		Read Wini Wood's Summary and reflections on Imitation of Life, from her Strong Women Homepage at Wellesley College.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/life.html (1193 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Douglas Sirk: Imitation of Life
		The pancake business in the first Imitation of Life, like Joan Crawford's restaurant in Mildred Pierce, is a commercial adaptation of women's domestic role and, to an audience presumably weighted with middle-class housewives, an option they could plausibly identify with for a woman suddenly forced to support herself.
		The further irony is that Imitation of Life is itself so obviously a commercial project, with typical Ross Hunter "pre-sold" casting, i.e., Robert Alda—as a lecherous agent — for the oldsters, Sandra Dee — as the adolescent Susie — for the teenagers.
		A sanitized version of this operates in Imitation of Life as Sandra Dee imagines that her mother's longtime beau, John Gavin, is really in love with her, a notion of which she must be painfully disabused.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /18/18_lana.html (2617 words)

	INTERRACIAL VOICE - Guest Editorial
		Therefore, the PCA censors, reflecting "white" America, were deeply troubled by Peola's mere existence regardless the movie story line emphasized that her father had been a "very light-skinned fl man." And again the censors squirmed over the fictional, unseen father, too, because ultimately he had acquired his "lightness" from some "white" fictional ancestor.
		So, although Imitation of Life depicted no forbidden romancing or "miscegenation" per se, Peola with her "fl blood" physically embodied the true object of the disgust, revulsion, or morbid fear underlying both the felony anti-miscegenation laws and movie censorship of the time.
		This uncertainty was broached in Imitation of Life, when Peola's mother, Delilah, seemed unable to fix blame for the "mean," "cruel" identity burden her daughter was obliged to accept -- as when the "white" woman, Bea's, daughter, Jessie, called Peola "fl," and made her cry:
	www.interracialvoice.com /gwinkel8.html (4277 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Imitation of Life
		1959's sardonic Imitation of Life deals with blond bombshell Lora Meredith's rise to fame and her complicated relationships with a series of carnivorous men, her hot-headed daughter, and her angelic African-American maid Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore).
		Imitation of Life is drunk on the lies and gross assumptions of its characters and the way they feed off of deceptive surfaces.
		Imitation of Life ends with Moore's Annie Johnson being dramatically hoisted into a hearse as an entire fl community mourns her passing.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=728 (1533 words)

	85 - Imitation of Life » Pulse » Blog Archive
		The study of artificial life, or A-Life, as it is frequently called now, involves three interrelated efforts.
		For convenience’ sake they are generally termed “soft,” “hard,” and “wet.” Wet artificial life aims to create actual living cells from nonliving matter and is currently in a nascent stage.
		That system, developed by John von Neumann with his colleague Stanislaw Ulam, and later Nils Barricelli, is a gridlike checkerboard of squares (the cells), each of which can change in response to changes in neighboring squares.
	www.pulsethebook.com /interacting-parts/85-imitation-of-life (748 words)

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		I'm fiercely proud that whatever fucked up in my early life led me to a good place politically, and hysteria's in the eye (ear) of the (to be pitied) beholder.
		Life goes on, with all the passion and petty aggressions of the outside world, it's just contained, intensified.
		But in fact her experience of life has numbed her to the point that her once bubbly voice can do nothing but proclaim how she '[doesn't] believe in miracles' anymore.
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	Digressions - Nihilistbear's Writings
		For the first time, his journal was something other than a rundown of the insignificant events of his life, but speculation on fate, and destiny, strange half-formed thoughts that he had trouble putting to paper.
		He’d picked the life Angel had picked for him, chosen to stay in the world Angel had sacrificed so much to create, and didn’t want to draw out Angel’s pain by making him think of a world where they were still father and son.
		He needs to go back to that life, the one where he killed things every night and was tougher and faster than, well, everyone.
	divagations.diaryland.com /connorfic.html (4132 words)

	Imitation of Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Imitation of Life (novel) a popular 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst, which was adapted into two successful films:
		Imitation of Life (1934 film) directed by John M. Stahl, starring Claudette Colbert and Warren William
		Imitation of Life (1959 film) directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, and Juanita Moore
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imitation_of_Life (138 words)

	Imitation Font
		IMITATION is based on the hand-lettered titles of the film Imitation of Life, the 1959 remake directed by Douglas Sirk and starring the actors listed above.
		"Imitation of Life" was produced by Ross Hunter, art-directed by Richard H. Riedel, and is available on Universal Home Video.
		IMITATION includes lowercase (most with alternate forms in the caps positions), numbers, punctuation, and international characters.
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	Amazon.com: Imitation of Life: DVD: Lana Turner,John Gavin,Sandra Dee,Susan Kohner,Robert Alda,Dan O'Herlihy,Juanita ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Among her most popular works was the novel IMITATION OF LIFE, which first came to the screen starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers in 1934.
		Today both the novel and film would be considered somewhat racist--but at the time both were considered social shockers, dealing frankly with single mothers, rebellious daughters, and racial issues in a way that few novels and fewer still films of the era dared.
		Director Douglas Sirk was reknowned for his ability with this sort of material, and although he did better films IMITATION OF LIFE is perhaps his most obvious stylistic statement: gallons of gloss, more soap suds than a sink full of dishes, and enough vulgar melodrama to fuel a thousand 1950s schoolgirl dreams.
	www.amazon.com /Imitation-Life-Lana-Turner/dp/B0000714BT (2389 words)

	Cool Cinema Trash.com: Imitation of Life (1959)
		With a cascade of golf ball sized diamonds and a theme song crooned by a Nat King Cole sound-alike, the opening of Imitation of Life (1959) embodies all the glitz, glamour, and melodrama of women's films in the post war era.
		Though successful in it's initial release, Imitation of Life and other films like it, were regarded as simple pieces of genre filmmaking.
		Whether you appreciate the movie as a social commentary on racism and the women's movement, or as an over-the-top camp delight, Imitation of Life is a memorable classic from a bygone era.
	www.coolcinematrash.com /movies/imitationoflife.htm (1746 words)

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	Imitation of Life (1959)
		In Douglas Sirk's emotionally and visually extravagant final film IMITATION OF LIFE, a life's work of subverted melodrama and razor-sharp social commentary are brought to a resounding and baroque climax.
		Transcending the feminist labeling that IMITATION OF LIFE risked, the film freely mixes Meredith's rags to riches (with a hefty moral price tag) tale with Annie's scarring struggles to teach her daughter to accept her identity.
		As Meredith climbs higher and higher in her glamorous rise to stage and screen stardom, she ignores her vulnerable daughter Susie (Sandra Dee) and creates a devastating contrast for the racial and social tragedy that transpires in her own household.
	movies.go.com /imitation-of-life/d820371/drama (401 words)

	White Melodrama: Douglas Sirk
		Imitation of Life was about four women, two of them fl.
		Imitation of Life was Sirk's biggest success and last commercial film.
		Sirk's Champions argued in the 1970s that these women are so overpowered by their plastic worlds that Imitation of Life becomes a “fl comedy” with puppet people so blind and impotent that they never have a chance, and that thus no real “drama” occurs (9).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/36/sirk.html (6915 words)

	Imitation of Life News
		Imitation of Life News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		She teamed with Lana Turner in 'Imitation of Life' and then again with Natalie Wood in 'All the Fine...
		The final American film from the great Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life opened in New York City 47 years ago today in 1959.
	www.topix.net /movies/imitation-of-life (216 words)

	Imitation of Life
		At one point, realizing that they have to make a side trip, his guardians arrange to meet Egorushka later and leave him with a group of peasants who are part of a caravan bringing merchandise to market.
		Throughout the trip, Egorushka animates the stark landscape with his own emotions: Trees, grass, sky, wildlife are "transfixed with anguish," and then bursting with a "passionate thirst for life," and then "lonely," and "anguished, hopeless" once again.
		The qualities of life that Egorushka witnesses on his journey are equally unstable.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20041213/siegel (753 words)

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