ReFocus: The Films of Wallace Fox / / ed. by Gary D. Rhodes.

Offers the first collection of critical essays on Wallace Fox, one of Hollywood’s first Native American film directorsExamines the entirety of Fox’s career in film and televisionProvides focus on Fox’s major works in the areas of the horror film, the western, the women’s picture, and the movie seria...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 42 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Wallace Fox, Chickasaw filmmaker
  • Introduction: Wallace Fox and the B Film
  • 1 Between Compliance and Resistance: Mapping the Careers of Wallace Fox and Nipo Strongheart in Early Hollywood
  • 2 Indian Agents and Indigenous Agency at Universal: Wild Beauty (1946) and Gun Town (1946)
  • 3 Neglected Western Traditions and Indigenous Cinema in the 1945–1946 Series Westerns of Wallace Fox
  • 4 The Corpse Vanishes and the Case of the Missing Brides
  • 5 “Like a crazy nightmare”: Noirish Vampirism and Deviance in Bowery at Midnight
  • 6 Voices and Vaults: Pillow of Death
  • 7 Wallace Fox and America’s “Career Girls”
  • 8 She Made Her Own Deadline: Fox’s Brenda Starr, Reporter
  • 9 Bathos in the Bowery
  • 10 Infernal Devices: Wallace Fox’s Aeroglobe, Cosmic Beam Annihilator, and the Pit of Everlasting Fire
  • 11 A Fox in the Wild: Ramar of the Jungle and the Crisis of Representation
  • Index