The Films of Joseph H. Lewis

Contents

Contents vii Foreword by Francis M. Nevins: Joseph H. Lewis, 1907–2000 ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Gary D. Rhodes Part I: Texts and Contexts 1. Style Development and Product Upgrading: Monogram Pictures, the Ambitious B Movie, and the East Side Kids Films Directed by Joseph H. Lewis 11 Yannis Tzioumakis 2. Partition and Desire in the Films of Joseph H. Lewis 38 Hugh S. Manon 3. The Joseph H. Lewis Nobody Knows: The Television Films 62 Michael E. Grost Part II: Individual Works 4. “A House Where Anything Can Happen and Usually Does”: Joseph H. Lewis, Bela Lugosi, and (The) Invisible Ghost 81 Gary D. Rhodes 5. B Is for Belief: Joseph Lewis’s Experiments with the Mad Doctor of Market Street 98 Lance Duerfahrd viii Contents 6. Joseph H. Lewis, Anna May Wong, and Bombs over Burma 116 Brian Taves 7. “People Can Think Themselves into Anything”: The Domestic Nightmare in My Name Is Julia Ross 134 Marlisa Santos 8. “A Matchless Stylist Exercise”: Joseph H. Lewis and So Dark the Night 146 Brian Hoyle 9. The Undercover Man and the Police Procedural 163 David J. Hogan 10. The “How Big Is It?” Combo: Noir’s Dirty Spectacles 178 Robert Singer 11. The Halliday Brand and Terror in a Texas Town: Western Allegories of the Blacklist 199 Tony Williams Part III: Gun Crazy 12. Rejecting Everything: Gun Crazy and the Radical Noir of Joseph H. Lewis 223 Christopher Justice 13. Music, Masculinity, and Masochism in Gun Crazy 242 Michael Lee 14. Ethos and Ethics: Reconsidering Gun Crazy 255 Phillip Sipiora List of Contributors 271 Index 275 ...