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Title The films of Joseph H. Lewis / edited by Gary D. Rhodes ; foreword by Francis M. Nevins
Published Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Lewis, Joseph H., 1907-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lewis, Joseph H., 1907-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation
Lewis, Joseph H., 1907-2000 fast
Subject Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion pictures
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures.
Films.
Form Electronic book
Author Rhodes, Gary Don, 1972-
LC no. 2012001064
ISBN 9780814335994
0814335993