ReFocus : : The Films of Budd Boetticher / / Gary D Rhodes, Robert Singer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Rhodes, Gary D,; Singer, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Aveyard, Karina,; Donaldson, Lucy Fife,; Guffey, Robert,; Gustafsson, Fredrik,; Hefner, Brooks E.,; Hogan, David J.,; Manon, Hugh S.,; Minz, Christopher,; Neale, Steve,; Rhodes, Gary D.,; Santos, Marlisa,; Singer, Robert,; Wallin, Zoë,; White, John,; Williams, Tony,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 35 B/W illustrations

A vital collection of essays on Budd Boetticher’s long directing careerOne of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs, Budd Boetticher was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous ‘Ranown’ series of westerns starring Randolph Scott. With influential figures like Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood acknowledging Boetticher’s influence, and with growing academic interest in his work, Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director’s long career, from a range of international scholars. Looking at celebrated films like Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) and Comanche Station (1960), as well as at lesser-known works like Escape in the Fog (1945) and Behind Locked Doors (1948), this book also addresses Boetticher’s influential television work on the James Garner series Maverick, and Boetticher’s continuing aesthetic influence on contemporary TV classics like Breaking Bad.ContributorsKarina Aveyard, University of SydneyLucy Fife Donaldson, University of St. AndrewsRobert Guffey, California State University – Long BeachFredrik Gustafsson, Swedish Film Institute and Örebro UniversityBrooks E. Hefner, James Madison UniversityDavid J. Hogan, Film Historian and JournalistHugh S. Manon, Clark UniversityChristopher Minz, Georgia State UniversitySteve Neale, University of ExeterGary D. Rhodes, The Queen’s University in BelfastMarlisa Santos, Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale Robert Singer, CUNY Graduate CenterJohn White, Anglia Ruskin University Tony Williams, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Table of Contents

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