[ecrea] New book: The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz

We would like to announce a new publication from University of Texas 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz***

*Edited by R. Barton Palmer & Murray Pomerance***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/the-many-cinemas-of-michael-curtiz_**__*

"2018 brings an aptly titled essay collection, /The Many Cinemas of 
Michael Curtiz/. . . Perhaps pointedly, none of the essayists focus on 
Casablanca (1942). Instead, /The Many Cinemas/ examine genres Curtiz 
worked in, his handling of political messages and his relations with 
actors." */- Shepherd Express/*

Hollywood—/Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy , The Sea Hawk , White 
Christmas,/ and /Mildred Pierce/, to name only a few. The most prolific 
and consistently successful Hollywood generalist with an all-embracing 
interest in different forms of narrative and spectacle, Curtiz made 
around a hundred films in an astonishing range of genres: action, 
biopics, melodramas/film noir, musicals, and westerns. But his important 
contributions to the history of American film have been overlooked 
because his broadly varied oeuvre does not present the unified vision of 
filmmaking that canonical criticism demands for the category of “auteur.”

Exploring his films and artistic practice from a variety of angles, 
including politics, gender, and genre, /The Many Cinemas of Michael 
Curtiz /sheds new light on this underappreciated cinematic genius. 
Leading film studies scholars offer fresh appraisals of many of Curtiz’s 
most popular films, while also paying attention to neglected releases of 
substantial historical interest, such as /Noah’s Ark , Night and Day, 
Virginia City, Black Fury, Mystery of the Wax Museum/, and /Female/. 
Because Curtiz worked for so long and in so many genres, this analysis 
of his work becomes more than an author study of a notable director. 
Instead, /The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz/ effectively adds a major 
chapter to the history of Hollywood’s studio era, including its 
internationalism and the significant contributions of European émigrés.


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