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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 On Containment, Screen Size, and the Lightness and the Dark 7
5. 2 “It Was Like Going Down to the Bottom of the World”: John Garfield and Enterprise 22
6. 3 “I’m a Stranger Here Myself”: Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino 37
7. 4 “Love, Hate, Action, Vio lence, and Death . . . in One Word: Emotion”: Joseph Losey and Samuel Fuller 66
8. 5 “Put an Amen to It”: The Old Masters— Welles, Hitchcock, Ford 86
9. 6 Looking to the Skies: Science Fiction in the 1950s 108
10. 7 “How Can You Say You Love Me . . . ?”: Melodrama 131
11. Conclusion: “Complete Total Final Annihilating Artistic Control”— Stanley Kubrick Explodes Containment 162
12. Acknowledgments 179
13. Notes 181
14. Selected Bibliography 187
15. Index 189
16. About the Author 201