Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. INTRODUCTION What We Talk about When We Talk about the Method 1
4. CHAPTER 1 Methodists and Method-ists: Primordial Ideas of Methodness 25
5. CHAPTER 2 Acting a Foil: John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and the Othering of Methodness 61
6. CHAPTER 3 James Dean’s Story: Posthumous Reception and Methodness Memorialized 89
7. CHAPTER 4 History in Hysteria: John Garfield and the Limits of Methodness 119
8. CHAPTER 5 Illogical Tomatoes to Inscrutable Feats: Methodness to the Present 151
9. CONCLUSION Facing a Future Methodness 187
10. Acknowledgments 199
11. Notes 205
12. Selected Bibliography 239
13. Index 249