- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
-
Foreword Outside the Frame -
Introduction An American Outsider -
I A Single Man and Los Angeles Culture in the 1960s -
1 A Single Man and the American Maurice -
2 Labor of Love -
3 Working through Grief in the Drafts of A Single Man -
4 Writing the Unspeakable in A Single Man and Mrs. Dalloway -
5 A Whole without Transcendence -
6 Ford Does Isherwood -
7 A Real Diamond -
II The Religious Writer -
8 Isherwood and the Psycho-geography of Home -
9 Isherwood and Huxley -
10 Down Where on a Visit? -
11 A Phone Call by the River -
12 “Give Me Devotion … Even Against My Will” -
13 Spiritual Searching in Isherwood’s Artistic Production -
III A Writer at Odds with Himself in Cold War America -
14 Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward -
15 Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years -
16 The Celebrity Effect -
17 A Writer at Work -
18 Pulp Isherwood -
19 Not Satisfied with the Ending - Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
Labor of Love
Labor of Love
Making Chris & Don
- Chapter:
- (p.25) 2 Labor of Love
- Source:
- The American Isherwood
- Author(s):
Tina Mascara
Guido Santi
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
This chapter focuses on the making of Chris & Don: A Love Story, a feature-length documentary film that chronicles the thirty-year relationship between Christopher Isherwood and his lover Don Bachardy. The authors of this chapter, who directed the film, reflect on the problems and challenges they encountered before they could finish it. They traveled to Ireland to film John Boorman, to Paris to speak with Leslie Caron, and to many other locations, including England and Los Angeles. Going to places like London was particularly difficult in terms of logistics. Also, some of their interviews didn’t pan out as originally planned, as was the case when meeting with David Hockney. They interviewed Don about nine times over a period of two years. Aside from interviews, the directors made use of archival footage shot by the couple from the 1950s, letters, and excerpts from Isherwood’s diaries. Chris & Don premiered in 2007.
Keywords: documentary film, Chris & Don, Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, John Boorman, Leslie Caron, interviews, David Hockney, letters, diaries
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
-
Foreword Outside the Frame -
Introduction An American Outsider -
I A Single Man and Los Angeles Culture in the 1960s -
1 A Single Man and the American Maurice -
2 Labor of Love -
3 Working through Grief in the Drafts of A Single Man -
4 Writing the Unspeakable in A Single Man and Mrs. Dalloway -
5 A Whole without Transcendence -
6 Ford Does Isherwood -
7 A Real Diamond -
II The Religious Writer -
8 Isherwood and the Psycho-geography of Home -
9 Isherwood and Huxley -
10 Down Where on a Visit? -
11 A Phone Call by the River -
12 “Give Me Devotion … Even Against My Will” -
13 Spiritual Searching in Isherwood’s Artistic Production -
III A Writer at Odds with Himself in Cold War America -
14 Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward -
15 Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years -
16 The Celebrity Effect -
17 A Writer at Work -
18 Pulp Isherwood -
19 Not Satisfied with the Ending - Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
