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Reading Race and "Rita" in The Lady from Shanghai: Decrypting the Mogul, the Star, and the Auteur

2017; University of Manitoba Press; Volume: 50; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/mos.2017.a663695

1925-5683

Joshua David Gonsalves,

American and British Literature Analysis

This essay explicates the desire to be independent that derives, I argue, from the moguls who invented Hollywood, resistant actors (James Cagney) and "rogue" producers (David O. Selznick). My historical analysis of this desire as it circulates among these figures will be supplemented by script variations of The Lady from Shanghai.