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The many cinemas of Michael Curtiz / edited by R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance.

Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.C87 M36 2018
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.
Pomerance, Murray, 1946- editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Curtiz, Michael, 1886-1962.
Criticism and interpretation.
United States.
Curtiz, Michael, 1886-1962--Criticism and interpretation.
Curtiz, Michael.
Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Contents:
Introduction. The many cinemas of Michael Curtiz / R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance
Bending it like Curtiz : gender and genre in the Scarlet hour and the Helen Morgan story / Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Making a Life with Father / David Desser
The Jewish Jazz Singer remakes his voice : Michael Curtiz's update of the Warner Bros. classic / Seth Friedman
"Don't fence me in" : the making of Night and Day / Mark Glancy
Long love the queen : Bette Davis, Curtiz, and female melodrama / David Greven
Double-time in America : Yankee doodle dandy / Julie Grossman
Mildred Pierce : from script to screen / Kristen Hatch
Curtiz at sea : Captain Blood, the Sea Hawk, the Sea Wolf, and the Breaking Point / Nathan Holmes
Curtiz in the White House / Bill Krohn
The spectacle of the ages : Noah's Ark / Katharina Loew
Jazz me blues : lo-fi, fantasy, audiovisuality in young man with a horn / Robert Miklitsch
A setting sun : the Egyptian / Deron Overpeck
King Creole : Michael Curtiz and the great elvis Presley industry / Landon Palmer
Michael Curtiz's political cinema of sorts / R. Barton Palmer
Curtiz's new western aesthetic / Homer B. Pettey
Michael Curtiz's gamble for Christmas / Murray Pomerance
Film performance before and after the code : mandalay and stolen holiday / Steven Rybin
"A mass of contradictions" : Michael Curtiz and the women's film / Michele Schreiber
Devil-may-care : Curtiz and Flynn in Hollywood / Constantine Verevis
Uncanny effigies : early sound cinema and mystery of the wax museum / Colin Williamson.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Filmography.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
ISBN:
9781477315545
1477315543
9781477315552
1477315551
OCLC:
1005818212

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