ReFocus : : The Films of Delmer Daves / / Matthew Carter, Andrew Nelson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Carter, Matthew,; Nelson, Andrew,
• MitwirkendeR: Carter, Matthew,; Danks, Adrian,; Howe, Andrew,; Jaskulski, Józef,; Matheson, Sue,; Nelson, Andrew Patrick,; Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel,; Pheasant-Kelly, Fran,; Pomp, Joseph,; White, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

New essays on the life and work of veteran Hollywood filmmaker Delmer DavesFrom 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 regarded as an embodiment of the self-effacing craftsmanship of classical and post-War Hollywood, films such as Broken Arrow (1950) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957) reveal a filmmaker concerned with style as much as sociocultural significance. 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.Key FeaturesThe first and only detailed study of this important American screenwriter, producer and directorAn international collection of original essays examining Daves’s films, including Broken Arrow, 3:10 to Yuma, Task Force and Spencer’s MountainContributorsFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)Matthew Carter, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityAdrian Danks, RMIT UniversityAndrew Howe, La Sierra UniversityJózef Jaskulski, University of WarsawSue Matheson, University College of the North in Manitoba Andrew Patrick Nelson, Montana State UniversityFran Pheasant-Kelly, University of WolverhamptonJoseph Pomp, Harvard UniversityJohn White, Anglia Ruskin University

Table of Contents

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