ReFocus. The films of Delmer Daves /
New essays on the life and work of veteran Hollywood filmmaker Delmer Daves. From 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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | ReFocus, the American directors series.
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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