Sign up for my newsletter. Youtube channel updates, written reviews, and exclusive content -- free! -- http://eepurl.com/hbfI6v Watch movies freely and securely with Atlas VPN. Sign up now for just $1.39/month! http://atlasvpn.go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id=3&aff_id=53 As part of my Great Director series, here's the entry on PReston Struges. This video goes through Sturges' directorial work chronologically. For each movie, a theme is presented about Sturges' overall work. One thesis is that Sturges combined the screwball comedy with social realism, and he talked openly in these movies about why he was doing it. He meditates in a "meta" way on his own work. Another theme is what America is circa the early 1940s. It is the place of the ordinary person who can jump social classes, albeit usually on the basis of good luck plus fraud. The movies discussed are: The Great McGinty; Christmas in July; The Lady Eve; Sullivan's Travels;; Hail the Conquering Hero; The Miracle of Morgan's Creek; The Great Moment; and Unfaithfully Yours. Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJoshMatthews Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshmatthews/ Understanding Movies 101 Course: https://joshmatthews.org/learn-more-about-movies-a-short-video-course/ The Great Movies Series: https://joshmatthews.org/what-makes-this-movie-great-list-of-videos/ Comprehensive List of the Great Movies Series: https://joshmatthews.org/what-makes-this-movie-great-list-of-videos/ Movie Cliches Series -- Video Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBCXFM1qmj4 The Great Directors Series -- Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ChqM-3knDs Shot for Shot Analyses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syos3JN41mM Great Science-Fiction Movie List: https://joshmatthews.org/great-science-fiction-movies-and-tv/ Other Movie Lists: https://joshmatthews.org/topics/movie-lists/ Disclaimer: All reasonable comments are welcome, including reasoned disagreements. You will be banned for foolish talk, harassment, and hate speech on sight; it's a tremendous waste of life. I believe in freedom of association and, by extension, freedom of dissociation from you.