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ReFocus. The films of Delmer Daves /

New essays on the life and work of veteran Hollywood filmmaker Delmer Daves. From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers have been as critically overlooked in existing scholarly literature. Often...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carter, Matthew (Teacher) (Editor ), Nelson, Andrew Patrick, 1982- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Colección:ReFocus, the American directors series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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 System from 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 Nothing!": The Femme Fatale and other Film Noir Tropes in Delmer Daves' Jubal
  • Index