The Films of Joseph H. Lewis

by Rhodes, Gary D.; Nevins, Francis M.

• ISBN13: 9780814334621
• ISBN10: 0814334628
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-05
• Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr

Summary

Studies American director Gary D. Rhodes' eclectic career, including his best-known film, Gun Crazy.

Author Biography

Gary D. Rhodes, PhD, is a film historian, filmmaker, and a lecturer of film studies at the Queen's University of Belfast. His films includes Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula and Banned in Oklahoma. Rhodes is also the author of The Perils of Moviegoing in America and Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Texts and Contexts
Style Development and Product Upgrading: Monogram Pictures, the Ambitious B Movie, and the East Side Kids Films Directed by Joseph H. Lewis	p. 11
Partition and Desire in the Films of Joseph H. Lewis	p. 38
The Joseph H. Lewis Nobody Knows: The Television Films	p. 62
Individual Works
"A House Where Anything Can Happen and Usually Does": Joseph H. Lewis, Bela Lugosi, and (The) Invisible Ghost	p. 81
B Is for Belief: Joseph Lewis's Experiments with the Mad Doctor of Market Street	p. 98
Joseph H. Lewis, Anna May Wong, and Bombs over Burma	p. 116
"People Can Think Themselves into Anything": The Domestic Nightmare in My Name is Julia Ross	p. 134
"A Matchless Stylist Exercise": Joseph H. Lewis and So Dark the Night	p. 146
The Undercover Man and the Police Procedural	p. 163
The "How Big Is It?" Combo: Noir's Dirty Spectacles	p. 178
The Halliday Brand and Terror in a Texas Town: Western Allegories of the Blacklist	p. 199
Gun Crazy
Rejecting Everything: Gun Crazy and the Radical Noir of Joseph H. Lewis	p. 223
Music, Masculinity, and Masochism in Gun Crazy	p. 242
Ethos and Ethics: Reconsidering Gun Crazy	p. 255
List of Contributors	p. 271
Index	p. 275
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