ReFocus: The Films of William Wyler

• Explores Wyler’s work in connection with current themes and topics in film studies
• Provides cultural and political contexts for Wyler’s films, including representations of class, gender, and race
• Assesses the relationship between classic Hollywood’s studio system and the auteur theory and Wyler’s hybrid influence on the history of cinema

In his forty-five-year career, William Wyler not only traversed the silent and the sound eras, but also connected classic Hollywood to new