The films of Joseph H. Lewis / edited by Gary D. Rhodes ; foreword by Francis M. Nevins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rhodes, Gary Don, 1972-

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and media series.

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Lewis, Joseph H., 1907-2000--Criticism and interpretation.

Lewis, Joseph H.

Physical Description:

xiii, 284 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Joseph H. Lewis enjoyed a monumental career in many genres, including film noir and B-movies (with the East Side Kids) as well as an extensive and often overlooked TV career. In The Films of Joseph H. Lewis, editor Gary D. Rhodes, PhD. gathers notable scholars from around the globe to examine the full range of Lewis's career. While some studies analyze Lewis's work in different areas, others focus on particular films, ranging from poverty row fare to westerns and "television films." Overall, this collection offers fresh perspectives on Lewis as an auteur, a director responsible for individually unique works as well as a sustained and coherent style.Essays in part 1 investigate the texts and contexts that were important to Lewis's film and television career, as contributors explore his innovative visual style and themes in both mediums. Contributors to part 2 present an array of essays on specific films, including Lewis's remarkable and prescient Invisible Ghost and other notable films My Name Is Julia Ross, So Dark the Night, and The Big Combo. Part 3 presents an extended case study of Lewis's most famous and-arguably-most important work, Gun Crazy. Contributors take three distinct approaches to the film: in the context of its genre as film noir and modernist and postmodernist film; in its relationship to masculinity and masochism; and in terms of ethos and ethics. The Films of Joseph H. Lewis offers a thorough assessment of Lewis's career and also provides insight into film and television making in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Scholars of film and television studies and fans of Lewis's work will appreciate this comprehensive collection.

Contents:

Foreword by Francis M. Nevins: Joseph H. Lewis, 1907-2000

Introduction / Gary D. Rhodes

Pt. 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 / Yannis Tzioumakis

Partition and desire in the films of Joseph H. Lewis / Hugh S. Manon

The Joseph H. Lewis nobody knows: The television films /

Michael E. Grost

Pt. 2. Individual works

"A house where anything can happen and usually does": Joseph H. Lewis, Bela Lugosi, and (the) invisible ghost / Gary D. Rhodes

B Is for belief: Joseph Lewis's experiments with the Mad doctor of market street / Lance Duerfahrd

Joseph H. Lewis, Anna May Wong, and Bombs over Burma / Brian Taves

"People can think themselves into anything": the domestic nightmare in My name is Julia Ross / Marlisa Santos

"A matchless stylist exercise": Joseph H. Lewis and So dark the night / Brian Hoyle

The Undercover man and the police procedural / David J. Hogan

The "How big is it?" combo: noir's dirty spectacles /

Robert Singer

The Halliday brand and terror in a Texas town: Western allegories of the blacklist / Tony Williams

Pt. 3. Gun Crazy

Rejecting everything: Gun crazy and the radical noir of Joseph H. Lewis / Christopher Justice

Music, masculinity, and masochism in Gun crazy / Michael Lee

Ethos and ethics: reconsidering Gun crazy / Phillip Sipiora.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814335994

0814335993

OCLC:

821737966