7. Joe Lerner’s New York Noir

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. PART I: ROOTS
5. 1. Not Just Another Location 11
6. 2. The Pathé Studio: Miniature Hollywood or Just Another False Dawn? 31
7. 3. Now It Can Be Told: Louis de Rochemont, Henry Hathaway, and the Birth of Docudrama 51
8. 4. Race Movies: New York’s Original Independent Cinema 93
9. PART II: REVIVAL
10. 5. Eight Million Stories 147
11. 6. The O’Dwyer Plan 188
12. 7. Joe Lerner’s New York Noir 206
13. 8. Just Passing Through 232
14. 9. Pictures and Politics 254
15. PART III: RENAISSANCE
16. 10. Crime on the Waterfront 293
17. 11. Obsessed with Film 313
18. 12. The Golden Warrior 341
19. 13. Kiss Me, Kill Me 356
20. 14. “And the Winner in New York Is . . .” 372
21. 15. Happy Ending 402
22. 16. Thank You, Hollywood! 419
23. ABBREVIATIONS 429
24. NOTES 433
25. INDEX 499
26. FILM AND CULTURE 531