{"product_id":"mervyn-leroy-comes-to-town-9781978838376","title":"Mervyn Leroy Comes to Town","description":"\u003ci\u003eMervyn LeRoy Comes to Town \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book devoted to the career of one of the director\/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio executive, he contributed substantially to the success of the industry during the challenging period of the Depression and also in the period of realignment and readjustment that followed the end of World War II. This book offers chapters devoted to individual films such as \u003ci\u003eLittle Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWaterloo Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e30 Seconds over Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGypsy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eQuo Vadis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMURRAY POMERANCE\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar living in Toronto and the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eEdge of the Screen \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the editor or coeditor of dozens of books, including \u003ci\u003eAutism in Film and Television: On the Island\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eR. BARTON PALMER\u003c\/b\u003e is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature emeritus at Clemson University, where he founded the World Cinema program. Among numerous books and multiauthor volumes, he is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eMajor Performers in Hollywood Noir \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the author of \u003ci\u003eShot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Space.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51346556879122,"sku":"9781978838376","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62a63663-81bb-40b2-851a-4c130aac5567.jpg?v=1749049213","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mervyn-leroy-comes-to-town-9781978838376","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}