ReFocus
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2022
280 pages
978-1-3995-0565-9 (ISBN)
Description
Offers the first collection of critical essays on Wallace Fox, one of Hollywood's first Native American film directors
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Gary D. Rhodes | Joanna Hearne
ReFocus: The Films of Wallace Fox
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07/2022
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Wallace Fox and the B Film
- 1 Between Compliance and Resistance: Mapping the Careers of Wallace Fox and Nipo Strongheart in Early Hollywood
- 2 Indian Agents and Indigenous Agency at Universal: Wild Beauty (1946) and Gun Town (1946)
- 3 Neglected Western Traditions and Indigenous Cinema in the 1945-1946 Series Westerns of Wallace Fox
- 4 The Corpse Vanishes and the Case of the Missing Brides
- 5 "Like a crazy nightmare": Noirish Vampirism and Deviance in Bowery at Midnight
- 6 Voices and Vaults: Pillow of Death
- 7 Wallace Fox and America's "Career Girls"
- 8 She Made Her Own Deadline: Fox's Brenda Starr, Reporter
- 9 Bathos in the Bowery
- 10 Infernal Devices: Wallace Fox's Aeroglobe, Cosmic Beam Annihilator, and the Pit of Everlasting Fire
- 11 A Fox in the Wild: Ramar of the Jungle and the Crisis of Representation
- Index
