All That Heaven Allows (USA: Douglas Sirk, 1955)

All That Heaven Allows (USA: Douglas Sirk, 1955: 89 mins)

D'Angelo, Mike. "Subtext or not, All That Heaven Allows works great as straight melodrama." AV Club (June 11, 2014)

Graham, Jane. "All That Heaven Allows: #11 Most Romantic Film of All Time." The Guardian (October 16, 2010)

Halliday, Jon. "Rediscovering Douglas Sirk in 1972: All That Heaven Allows." MUBI (May 3, 2018)

Heldt, Guido. Music and Levels of Narration in Film. Intellect, 2013.["This is the first book-length study of the narratology of film music, and an indispensable resource for anyone researching or studying film music or film narratology. It surveys the so far piecemeal discussion of narratological concepts in film music studies, and tries to (cautiously) systematize them, and to expand and refine them with reference to ideas from general narratology and film narratology (including contributions from German-language literature less widely known in Anglophone scholarship). The book goes beyond the current focus of film music studies on the distinction between diegetic and nondiegetic music (music understood to be or not to be part of the storyworld of a film), and takes into account different levels of narration: from the extrafictional to ‘focalizations’ of subjectivity, and music’s many and complex movements between them."]

Koresky, Michael. "Queer Now and Then: 1955 (All That Heaven Allows)." Film Comment (March 25, 2020)

Lukas, Blake. "Douglas Sirk at Universal-International, Part 1: The Studio." Notebook (April 2, 2018) ["How the merger of Universal with International studios in 1946 set the stage for Douglas Sirk, two decades into his career, to flourish."]

---. "Douglas Sirk at Universal-International, Part 2: The Films." Notebook (April 9, 2018) ["How a great director engaged with the aesthetics, talents and desires of a Hollywood studio to produce his best work."]

Moulton, Erica. "A Cinema of Beautiful Devastation: All That Heaven Allows." Cinematheque (September 13, 2018)

Mulvey, Laura. "All That Heaven Allows: An Articulate Screen." The Current (June 10, 2014)

 Murray, Noel, et al. "Conformity, class, and color in All That Heaven Allows." The Dissolve (June 11, 2014)

Ryan, Tom. "Great Directors: Douglas Sirk." Senses of Cinema (February 2004)

Stevens, Brad. "All that mise en scène allows: Douglas Sirk’s expressive use of gesture." Sight and Sound (March 22, 2017) ["In Douglas Sirk’s famous melodrama All That Heaven Allows, the smallest hand movements of the actors speak volumes about their relationships."]