ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks / / ed. by R. Barton Palmer.
The first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook’s literariness"Offers a critical assessment by well-known film scholarsExplores Brooks’s engagement with intellectual and cultural trendsDiscusses Brooks’s engagement with genresReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks highlights the accom...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 33 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. The Brick Foxhole (1945): Richard Brooks’s American Vision
- Chapter 3. The Muted Voices of Conscience and Responsibility in Crisis (1950)
- Chapter 4. Deadline—U.S.A. (1952): A Fox Film of Fact
- Chapter 5. “Man Against the Times”: Conformity, Anti-Statism, and the “Unknown” Korean War in Battle Circus (1953)
- Chapter 6. Captured Interiors: Female Performances in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) and The Happy Ending (1969)
- Chapter 7. Blackboard Jungle (1955): A Cinematic Education
- Chapter 8. Hunting and the Economics of Adaptation: The Last Hunt (1956) and The Professionals (1966)
- Chapter 9. The Curse of Money: Negotiating Marriage in The Catered Affair (1956)
- Chapter 10. Adapting Modernism: Richard Brooks and The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
- Chapter 11. Haunted: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Chapter 12. A Bite of Salvation
- Chapter 13. “Monstrous Cinemascope”: Richard Brooks Adapts Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
- Chapter 14. Adapting the Unadaptables: Lord Jim (1965)
- Chapter 15. Adaptation as Mutation: In Cold Blood (1967)
- Chapter 16. Looking for Mr. Good Guy: Anatomizing ’70s Fracture and Fragmentation
- Chapter 17. Failing to Locate Wrong is Right (1982) and What that Reveals about Cinematic Reality
- Bibliography
- Index