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ReFocus

As the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even naïve studio man.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carter, Matthew
Otros Autores: Nelson, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Colección:ReFocus: the American Directors Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: "No One Would Know It Was Mine": Delmer Daves, Modest Auteur
  • 1 Don't Be Too Quick to Dismiss Them: Authorship and the Westerns of Delmer Daves
  • 2 Trying to Ameliorate the Within: Delmer Daves' Westerns from the 1950s
  • 3 Bent, or Lifted Out by Its Roots: Daves' Broken Arrow and Drum Beat as Narratives of Conditional Sympathy
  • 4 This Room is My Castle of Quiet: The Collaborations of Delmer Daves and Glenn Ford
  • 5 Delmer Daves, Authenticity, and Auteur Elements: Celebrating the Ordinary in Cowboy
  • 6 Home and the Range: Spencer's Mountain as Revisionist Family Melodrama
  • 7 Delmer Daves' 3:10 to Yuma: Aesthetics, Reception, and Cultural Significance
  • 8 Changing Societies: The Red House, The Hanging Tree, Spencer's Mountain, and Post-war America
  • 9 Partial Rehabilitation: Task Force and the Case of Billy Mitchell
  • 10 ""This Is Where He Brought Me: 10,000 Acres of Nothin!"": The Femme Fatale and other Film Noir Tropes in Delmer Daves' Jubal
  • Index