The films of Joseph H. Lewis [electronic resource] / edited by Gary D. Rhodes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword by Francis M. Nevins: Joseph H. Lewis, 1907-2000 -- Introduction / Gary D. Rhodes -- Pt. 1. Texts and contexts -- Style development and product upgrading: Monogram Pictures, the ambitious B movie, and the East Side Kids films directed by Joseph H. Lewis / Yannis Tzioumakis -- Partition and desire in the films of Joseph H. Lewis / Hugh S. Manon -- The Joseph H. Lewis nobody knows: The television films / -- Michael E. Grost -- Pt. 2. Individual works -- "A house where anything can happen and usually does": Joseph H. Lewis, Bela Lugosi, and (the) invisible ghost / Gary D. Rhodes -- B Is for belief: Joseph Lewis's experiments with the Mad doctor of market street / Lance Duerfahrd -- Joseph H. Lewis, Anna May Wong, and Bombs over Burma / Brian Taves -- "People can think themselves into anything": the domestic nightmare in My name is Julia Ross / Marlisa Santos -- "A matchless stylist exercise": Joseph H. Lewis and So dark the night / Brian Hoyle -- The Undercover man and the police procedural / David J. Hogan -- The "How big is it?" combo: noir's dirty spectacles / -- Robert Singer -- The Halliday brand and terror in a Texas town: Western allegories of the blacklist / Tony Williams -- Pt. 3. Gun Crazy -- Rejecting everything: Gun crazy and the radical noir of Joseph H. Lewis / Christopher Justice -- Music, masculinity, and masochism in Gun crazy / Michael Lee -- Ethos and ethics: reconsidering Gun crazy / Phillip Sipiora.

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