The Films of Wallace Fox

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Edited by Gary D. Rhodes and Joanna Hearne

Type

Film Reviews

Subject

Director > Wallace Fox

Keywords

Wallace Fox

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

ReFocus: The American Directors Series

1st publishing

2022

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 280 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-3995-0564-2

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Book Presentation:
Born in Oklahoma into the Chickasaw Nation, Wallace Fox directed films over the span of four decades. Known primarily for Westerns and mystery films, his output starred such famed actors as Bela Lugosi, Bob Steele, and Lon Chaney. ReFocus: The Films of Wallace Fox includes analysis of some of his best known films, including Wild Beauty, Gun Town, The Corpse Vanishes, Bowery at Midnight, Career Girl and Brenda Starr, Reporter. It reclaims the history and artistry of this major talent.

About the authors:
Gary D. Rhodes is Professor of Media, Oklahoma Baptist University. He is the author of Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (2012), The Perils of Moviegoing in America (2012), and The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018). He is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Rhodes is also the writer-director of the documentary films Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004).Joanna Hearne is the Jeanne Hoffman Smith Professor in the Film and Media Studies department at the University of Oklahoma. Her books on Indigenous images and image-making in American film history include Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western (2012) and Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising (2012).

Press Reviews:
Wallace Fox, a forgotten B-movie director who was one of the first Indigenous filmmakers to establish a career in American cinema, receives the Refocus treatment! Gary D. Rhodes and Joanna Hearne bring together eleven brilliant chapters that do much more than fill in a gap in film history; they expand and often rewrite it! -- Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool

This ambitiously wide-ranging collection of film essays examines and reevaluates the work of forgotten B-movie director Wallace Fox. -- Courtney Fellion ― Western American Literature

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