The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz

Herausgeber: Palmer, R. Barton

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Produktbeschreibung

Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one hundred films include Casablanca, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781477315545
• ISBN-10: 1477315543
• Artikelnr.: 49673571

Autorenporträt

R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, and author or editor of many books, including Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America and After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality.. Murray Pomerance is Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance, and The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect. He is also the editor or coeditor of several book series in film studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction. The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz (R. Barton Palmer
and Murray Pomerance)
* 1. Bending It Like Curtiz: Gender and Genre in The Scarlet Hour and
The Helen Morgan Story (Rebecca Bell-Metereau)
* 2. Making a Life with Father (David Desser)
* 3. The Jewish Jazz Singer Remakes His Voice: Michael Curtiz's Update
of the Warner Bros. Classic (Seth Friedman)
* 4. "Don't Fence Me In": The Making of Night and Day (Mark Glancy)
* 5. Long Love the Queen: Bette Davis, Curtiz, and Female Melodrama
(David Greven)
* 6. Double-Time in America: Yankee Doodle Dandy (Julie Grossman )
* 7. Mildred Pierce: From Script to Screen (Kristen Hatch)
* 8. Curtiz at Sea: Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, The Sea Wolf, and The
Breaking Point (Nathan Holmes)
* 9. Curtiz in the White House (Bill Krohn)
* 10. The Spectacle of the Ages: Noah's Ark (Katharina Loew )
* 11. Jazz Me Blues: Lo-Fi, Fantasy, Audiovisuality in Young Man with a
Horn (Robert Miklitsch)
* 12. A Setting Sun: The Egyptian (Deron Overpeck)
* 13. King Creole: Michael Curtiz and the Great Elvis Presley Industry
(Landon Palmer)
* 14. Michael Curtiz's Political Cinema of Sorts (R. Barton Palmer)
* 15. Curtiz's New Western Aesthetic (Homer B. Pettey)
* 16. Michael Curtiz's Gamble for Christmas (Murray Pomerance)
* 17. Film Performance before and after the Code: Mandalay and Stolen
Holiday (Steven Rybin)
* 18. "A Mass of Contradictions": Michael Curtiz and the Women's Film
(Michele Schreiber)
* 19. Devil-May-Care: Curtiz and Flynn in Hollywood (Constantine
Verevis)
* 20. Uncanny Effigies: Early Sound Cinema and Mystery of the Wax
Museum (Colin Williamson)
* Michael Curtiz Filmography
* Contributors
* Index