-
Reading Race and "Rita" in The Lady from Shanghai: Decrypting the Mogul, the Star, and the Auteur
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 2, June 2017
- pp. 149-169
- 10.1353/mos.2017.a663695
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Abstract:
This essay explicates the desire to be independent that derives, I argue, from the moguls who invented Hollywood, resistant actors (James Cagney) and "rogue" producers (David O. Selznick). My historical analysis of this desire as it circulates among these figures will be supplemented by script variations of The Lady from Shanghai.
collapse
You are not currently authenticated.
If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution or have your own login and password to Project MUSE
Authenticate
