The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz
Edited by R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance
(0 vote)Average rating:
| 0 | rating |  = We can do without |
| 0 | rating |  = Good book |
| 0 | rating |  = Excellent book |
| 0 | rating |  = Unique / a reference |
Your rating: -
Book Presentation:
Director Michael Curtiz was the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films of classical 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.
About the authors:
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, and author or editor of many books, including Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America and After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality..
Murray Pomerance is Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance, and The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect. He is also the editor or coeditor of several book series in film studies.
See the publisher website: University of Texas Press
See the complete filmography of Michael Curtiz on the website: IMDB ...
> From the same authors:
Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town (2025)
Dir. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Director > Mervyn LeRoy
The Literary Films of Richard Brooks (2024)
Dir. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey
Subject: Director > Richard Brooks
Alfred Hitchcock and Film Noir (2024)
The Darker Side
Dir. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
The Biggest Thing in Show Business (2024)
Living It Up with Martin & Lewis
by Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon
Subject: Actor > Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
Autism in Film and Television (2022)
On the Island
Dir. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Sociology
The Other Hollywood Renaissance (2020)
Dir. Dominic Lennard, R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance
Subject: Countries > United States
Rule, Britannia! (2019)
The Biopic and British National Identity
Dir. Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
French Literature on Screen (2019)
Dir. Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Close-Up (2018)
Great Cinematic Performances Volume 2: International
Dir. Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens
Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (2018)
Dir. R. Barton Palmer, Homer B. Pettey and Steven M. Sanders
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Hamlet Lives in Hollywood (2017)
John Barrymore and the Acting Tradition Onscreen
Dir. Murray Pomerance and Steven Rybin
Subject: Actor > John Barrymore
Invented Lives, Imagined Communities (2017)
The Biopic and American National Identity
Dir. William H. Epstein and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Countries > United States
Moment of Action (2016)
Riddles of Cinematic Performance
Cycles, Sequels, Spin-Offs, Remakes, and Reboots (2016)
Multiplicities in Film and Television
Dir. Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Economics
Shot on Location (2016)
Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place
Subject: Technique > Set Design
Thinking in the Dark (2015)
Cinema, Theory, Practice
Dir. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Theory
George Cukor (2015)
Hollywood Master
Dir. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Director > George Cukor
Michael Mann - Cinema and Television (2014)
Interviews, 1980-2012
by Steven Sanders and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Director > Michael Mann
The Philosophy of Michael Mann (2014)
Dir. Steven Sanders, Aeon J. Skoble and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Director > Michael Mann
Hollywood's Chosen People (2012)
The Jewish Experience in American Cinema
Dir. Daniel Bernardi, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Murray Pomerance
Subject: Countries > United States
Shining in Shadows (2011)
Movie Stars of the 2000s
Dir. Murray Pomerance
Subject: On Films > Per period
Hitchcock at the Source (2011)
The Auteur as Adapter
Dir. R. Barton Palmer and David Boyd
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
A Little Solitaire (2011)
John Frankenheimer and American Film
Dir. Murray Pomerance
Subject: Director > John Frankenheimer
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue (2011)
Eight Reflections on Cinema
Subject: Director > Michelangelo Antonioni
The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh (2011)
Dir. R. Barton Palmer and Steven Sanders
Subject: Director > Steven Soderbergh
Hollywood's Tennessee (2009)
The Williams Films and Postwar America
by R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Bray
Subject: Others persons > Tennessee Williams
After Hitchcock (2006)
Influence, Imitation, And Intertextuality
Dir. David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Traditions in World Cinema (2006)
Dir. Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider
Traditions in World Cinema (2005)
Dir. Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider
American Cinema of the 1950s (2005)
Themes and Variations
Dir. Murray Pomerance
Subject: On Films > Per period
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice (2001)
Cinemas of Girlhood
Dir. Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance
Subject: Sociology
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (2001)
Critical Essays and Guide to Resources With Annotated Bibliography and Filmography
by Cheryl Bray Lower and R. Barton Palmer
Subject: Director > Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls (2001)
Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century
Dir. Murray Pomerance
Subject: Sociology
> On a related topic:
King Creole (2026)
The Disputed Territories of 1950s American Youth Culture
Subject: One Film > King Creole
Eighty Odd Years in Hollywood (2004)
Memoir of a Career in Film and Television
Subject: Others persons > John Meredyth Lucas
Back
