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Introduction. The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction. The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz 1
  5. 1. Bending It Like Curtiz: Gender and Genre in The Scarlet Hour and The Helen Morgan Story 15
  6. 2. Making a Life with Father 28
  7. 3. The Jewish Jazz Singer Remakes His Voice: Michael Curtiz’s Update of the Warner Bros. Classic 41
  8. 4. “Don’t Fence Me In”: The Making of Night and Day 55
  9. 5. Long Love the Queen: Bette Davis, Curtiz, and Female Melodrama 68
  10. 6. Double-Time in America: Yankee Doodle Dandy 80
  11. 7. Mildred Pierce: From Script to Screen 94
  12. 8. Curtiz at Sea: Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, The Sea Wolf, and The Breaking Point 107
  13. 9. Curtiz in the White House 121
  14. 10. The Spectacle of the Ages: Noah’s Ark 133
  15. 11. Jazz Me Blues: Lo-Fi, Fantasy, Audiovisuality in Young Man with a Horn 145
  16. 12. A Setting Sun: The Egyptian 158
  17. 13. King Creole: Michael Curtiz and the Great Elvis Presley Industry 171
  18. 14. Michael Curtiz’s Political Cinema of Sorts 185
  19. 15. Curtiz’s New Western Aesthetic 207
  20. 16. Michael Curtiz’s Gamble for Christmas 221
  21. 17. Film Performance before and after the Code: Mandalay and Stolen Holiday 236
  22. 18. “A Mass of Contradictions”: Michael Curtiz and the Women’s Film 249
  23. 19. Devil-May- Care: Curtiz and Flynn in Hollywood 265
  24. 20. Uncanny Effigies: Early Sound Cinema and Mystery of the Wax Museum 278
  25. Michael Curtiz Filmography 291
  26. Contributors 315
  27. Index 319
The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz
This chapter is in the book The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz
https://doi.org/10.7560/315545-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction. The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz 1
  5. 1. Bending It Like Curtiz: Gender and Genre in The Scarlet Hour and The Helen Morgan Story 15
  6. 2. Making a Life with Father 28
  7. 3. The Jewish Jazz Singer Remakes His Voice: Michael Curtiz’s Update of the Warner Bros. Classic 41
  8. 4. “Don’t Fence Me In”: The Making of Night and Day 55
  9. 5. Long Love the Queen: Bette Davis, Curtiz, and Female Melodrama 68
  10. 6. Double-Time in America: Yankee Doodle Dandy 80
  11. 7. Mildred Pierce: From Script to Screen 94
  12. 8. Curtiz at Sea: Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, The Sea Wolf, and The Breaking Point 107
  13. 9. Curtiz in the White House 121
  14. 10. The Spectacle of the Ages: Noah’s Ark 133
  15. 11. Jazz Me Blues: Lo-Fi, Fantasy, Audiovisuality in Young Man with a Horn 145
  16. 12. A Setting Sun: The Egyptian 158
  17. 13. King Creole: Michael Curtiz and the Great Elvis Presley Industry 171
  18. 14. Michael Curtiz’s Political Cinema of Sorts 185
  19. 15. Curtiz’s New Western Aesthetic 207
  20. 16. Michael Curtiz’s Gamble for Christmas 221
  21. 17. Film Performance before and after the Code: Mandalay and Stolen Holiday 236
  22. 18. “A Mass of Contradictions”: Michael Curtiz and the Women’s Film 249
  23. 19. Devil-May- Care: Curtiz and Flynn in Hollywood 265
  24. 20. Uncanny Effigies: Early Sound Cinema and Mystery of the Wax Museum 278
  25. Michael Curtiz Filmography 291
  26. Contributors 315
  27. Index 319
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