Contents
Foreword
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1. The Early Years
Chapter 2. A Career Detour: 1930s Hollywood
Chapter 3. Orson Welles
Chapter 4. Val Lewton and Becoming a Director
Chapter 5. Lewton and Maupassant: A Template Picture
Chapter 6. Wise's First Noir Classic: Born to Kill
Chapter 7. Signature Cinema: The Set Up
Chapter 8. Life after RKO: The Day the Earth Stood Still and Genre Diversity
Chapter 9. Melodrama in Various War Settings: Run Silent, Run Deep as Metaphor
Chapter 10. "Portraits" and Biographies Doubling as Melodramas and/or Noirs
Chapter 11. Wise's Brass-Ring Decade: The 1960s
Chapter 12. Filmaking: "A Terribly Expensive Paint Box"
Epilogue
Filmography
Notes
Select Bibliography