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ReFocus. The films of Budd Boetticher /

One of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs, Budd Boetticher was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous ́⁰₈Ranowń⁰₉ series of westerns starring Randolph Scott. With influential figures like Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood acknowledging Boetticheŕ⁰₉s in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rhodes, Gary Don, 1972-, Singer, Robert, 1953 May 30-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2017.
Colección:ReFocus, the American directors series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 The Non-Westerns
  • Part 1 Introduction
  • 1. "I never did think he was crazy": Mystery and Criminality in Boetticher's Psychological Noirs
  • 2. On Ethics and Style in Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
  • 3. Domestic Tension and Male Hysteria: The Killer is Loose (1956)
  • 4. The Killer is Loose (1956) and the Televisual Dissolution of Film Noir
  • 5. Adventures on the Small Screen: Boetticher, Warner Bros., and Maverick
  • 6. The Signifying Heel: Boetticher's The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
  • Part 2 The Westerns
  • Part 2 Introduction
  • 7. The Ranown Cycle: Budd Boetticher's "New Look" Western Programmers in 1950s Hollywood
  • 8. Framings, Motifs, and Floating Poker Games in Seven Men from Now (1956)
  • 9. The Ranown Style: Mapping Textual Echoes
  • 10. You Were Married, But You Never Had a Wife: The Use of Space in the Westerns of Budd Boetticher
  • 11. Ideology and Boetticher's Westerns from the Late 1950s
  • 12. Outlaws Without a Cause: Generational Conflict in Budd Boetticher's Ranown Cycle
  • 13. The Box in the Desert: Budd Boetticher, Breaking Bad, and the Twenty-first-century Western
  • Index