The films of Joseph H. Lewis
By: edited by Gary D. Rhodes
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780814334621; 9780814335994
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Francis M. Nevins: Joseph H. Lewis, 1907-2000; title: Introduction / Gary D. Rhodes; title: Pt. 1. Texts and contexts; title: Style development and product upgrading: Monogram Pictures, the ambitious B movie, and the East Side Kids films directed by Joseph H. Lewis / Yannis Tzioumakis; title: Partition and desire in the films of Joseph H. Lewis / Hugh S. Manon; title: The Joseph H. Lewis nobody knows: The television films /; title: Michael E. Grost; title: Pt. 2. Individual works; title: "A house where anything can happen and usually does": Joseph H. Lewis, Bela Lugosi, and (the) invisible ghost / Gary D. Rhodes; title: B Is for belief: Joseph Lewis's experiments with the Mad doctor of market street / Lance Duerfahrd; title: Joseph H. Lewis, Anna May Wong, and Bombs over Burma / Brian Taves; title: "People can think themselves into anything": the domestic nightmare in My name is Julia Ross / Marlisa Santos; title: "A matchless stylist exercise": Joseph H. Lewis and So dark the night / Brian Hoyle; title: The Undercover man and the police procedural / David J. Hogan; title: The "How big is it?" combo: noir's dirty spectacles /; title: Robert Singer; title: The Halliday brand and terror in a Texas town: Western allegories of the blacklist / Tony Williams; title: Pt. 3. Gun Crazy; title: Rejecting everything: Gun crazy and the radical noir of Joseph H. Lewis / Christopher Justice; title: Music, masculinity, and masochism in Gun crazy / Michael Lee; title: Ethos and ethics: reconsidering Gun crazy / Phillip Sipiora.