ReFocus : : The Films of Budd Boetticher /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 35 B/W illustrations
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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

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