ReFocus : : The Films of Delmer Daves / / Matthew Carter, Andrew Nelson.
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 re...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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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