The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (335 p.)
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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

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