The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz / / ed. by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Bell-Metereau, Rebecca,; Desser, David,; Friedman, Seth,; Glancy, Mark,; Greven, David,; Grossman, Julie,; Hatch, Kristen,; Holmes, Nathan,; Krohn, Bill,; Loew, Katharina,; Miklitsch, Robert,; Overpeck, Der`on,; Palmer, Landon,; Palmer, R. Barton,; Pettey, Homer B.,; Pomerance, Murray,; Rybin, Steven,; Schreiber, Michele,; Verevis, Constantine,; Williamson, Colin,
• HerausgeberIn: Palmer, R. Barton,; Pomerance, Murray,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 p.)

Hollywood—Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy , The Sea Hawk , White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce, to name only a few. The most prolific and consistently successful Hollywood generalist with an all-embracing interest in different forms of narrative and spectacle, Curtiz made around a hundred films in an astonishing range of genres: action, biopics, melodramas/film noir, musicals, and westerns. But his important contributions to the history of American film have been overlooked because his broadly varied oeuvre does not present the unified vision of filmmaking that canonical criticism demands for the category of “auteur.” Exploring his films and artistic practice from a variety of angles, including politics, gender, and genre, The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz sheds new light on this underappreciated cinematic genius. Leading film studies scholars offer fresh appraisals of many of Curtiz’s most popular films, while also paying attention to neglected releases of substantial historical interest, such as Noah’s Ark , Night and Day, Virginia City, Black Fury, Mystery of the Wax Museum, and Female. Because Curtiz worked for so long and in so many genres, this analysis of his work becomes more than an author study of a notable director. Instead, The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz effectively adds a major chapter to the history of Hollywood’s studio era, including its internationalism and the significant contributions of European émigrés.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz -- 1. Bending It Like Curtiz: Gender and Genre in The Scarlet Hour and The Helen Morgan Story -- 2. Making a Life with Father -- 3. The Jewish Jazz Singer Remakes His Voice: Michael Curtiz’s Update of the Warner Bros. Classic -- 4. “Don’t Fence Me In”: The Making of Night and Day -- 5. Long Love the Queen: Bette Davis, Curtiz, and Female Melodrama -- 6. Double-Time in America: Yankee Doodle Dandy -- 7. Mildred Pierce: From Script to Screen -- 8. Curtiz at Sea: Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, The Sea Wolf, and The Breaking Point -- 9. Curtiz in the White House -- 10. The Spectacle of the Ages: Noah’s Ark -- 11. Jazz Me Blues: Lo-Fi, Fantasy, Audiovisuality in Young Man with a Horn -- 12. A Setting Sun: The Egyptian -- 13. King Creole: Michael Curtiz and the Great Elvis Presley Industry -- 14. Michael Curtiz’s Political Cinema of Sorts -- 15. Curtiz’s New Western Aesthetic -- 16. Michael Curtiz’s Gamble for Christmas -- 17. Film Performance before and after the Code: Mandalay and Stolen Holiday -- 18. “A Mass of Contradictions”: Michael Curtiz and the Women’s Film -- 19. Devil-May- Care: Curtiz and Flynn in Hollywood -- 20. Uncanny Effigies: Early Sound Cinema and Mystery of the Wax Museum -- Michael Curtiz Filmography -- Contributors -- Index