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Author:   Murray Pomerance ,  R. Barton Palmer ,  Matthew Solomon ,  David Desser
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9781978838383

ISBN 10:   1978838387
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   13 May 2025
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction by R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance Chapter 1. Little Caesar, Original Gangster by Matthew Solomon Chapter 2. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang by David Desser Chapter 3. The Forgotten Number: Sexual Economics, Politics, and PTSD in Gold Diggers of 1933 by Linda Badley Chapter 4. Tugboat Annie: Cogs in the Wheel of Industry by Kristen Hatch Chapter 5. What Makes Anthony Adverse? by Neil Badmington Chapter 6. They Won’t Forget: Mervyn LeRoy Goes Deep South Matthew H. Bernstein Chapter 7. Dance by Candlelight: Extinguishing the Everyday in Waterloo Bridge by Steven Rybin Chapter 8. The Cells of Johnny Eager by Mark Osteen Chapter 9. Random Harvest: “You haven’t even a memory” by Lawrence Napper Chapter 10. His Finger on the Public Pulse: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by R. Barton Palmer Chapter 11. On the Street Where You Live: Mervyn LeRoy’s East Side, West Side by Adrian Danks Chapter 12. Trendsetting Quo Vadis by R. Barton Palmer Chapter 13. Mervyn LeRoy’s Feminist Tale of a Million Dollar Mermaid by Rebecca Bell-Metereau Chapter 14. The Palm at the End of the War: Mr. Roberts by Brenda Austin-Smith Chapter 15. In Fertile Soil: The Bad Seed by Dominic Lennard Chapter 16. Playing the Agent in The FBI Story by Daniel Varndell Chapter 17. A Friend Out of an Enemy: Screen Space and the Traversal of Socio-cultural Boundaries in A Majority of One by Matthew Cipa Chapter 18. “Nothing to hit but the heights”: Mervyn LeRoy’s Gypsy by Murray Pomerance Chapter 19. Minute to Minute, Moment to Moment by Tom Conley Bibliography Notes on Contributors  Index

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""A studio director in the best and sometimes worst sense of the term, in this book Mervyn LeRoy finally gets his due—and then some: nineteen compact essays redress decades-old snubs, together rehabilitating the reputation of the director of such classics as Little Caesar and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town revisits old-school auteurism to help readers appreciate and understand the work of an unpretentious American artist."" -- Jon Lewis * author of Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture * ""By offering the first sustained look at the career of Mervyn LeRoy, this book does something new, showing what a director-driven study can be like without the neo-romanticism of traditional auteur theory."" -- Patrick Keating * author of Film Noir and the Arts of Lighting *

""A studio director in the best and sometimes worst sense of the term, in this book Mervyn LeRoy finally gets his due—and then some: nineteen compact essays redress decades-old snubs, together rehabilitating the reputation of the director of such classics as Little Caesar and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town revisits old-school auteurism to help readers appreciate and understand the work of an unpretentious American artist."" -- Jon Lewis * author of Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture *

Author Information

MURRAY POMERANCE is an independent scholar living in Toronto and the author of numerous books, including Edge of the Screen and Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience, as well as the editor or coeditor of dozens of books, including Autism in Film and Television: On the Island. R. BARTON PALMER is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature emeritus at Clemson University, where he founded the World Cinema program. Among numerous books and multiauthor volumes, he is the coauthor of Major Performers in Hollywood Noir and Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America, as well as the author of Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Space.

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