ReFocus--the films of Delmer Daves / edited by Matthew Carter and Andrew Patrick Nelson.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Carter, Matthew (Teacher), editor.
• Nelson, Andrew Patrick, 1982- editor.

Series:

• ReFocus, the American directors series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Daves, Delmer, 1904-1977--Criticism and interpretation.
• Daves, Delmer, 1904-1977.
• Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Films of Delmer Daves

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

From Destination Takyo (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 regarded as an embodiment of the self-effacing craftsmanship of classical and post-war Hollywood, films such as Broken Arrow (1950) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957) reveal a filmmaker concerned with style as much as sociocultrual significance. As the first comprehensive study of Daves' career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematise existing conceptions of him as a competent conventional and even naïve studio man. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 Don't Be Too Quick to Dismiss Them: Authorship and the Westerns of Delmer Daves / Andrew Patrick Nelson Nelson, Andrew Patrick 48
• 2 Trying to Ameliorate the System from Within: Delmer Daves' Westerns from the 1950s / John White White, John 63
• 3 Bent, or Lifted Out by Its Roots: Daves' Broken Arrow and Drum Beat as Narratives of Conditional Sympathy / Józef Jaskulski Jaskulski, Józef 80
• 4 This Room is My Castle of Quiet: The Collaborations of Delmer Daves and Glenn Ford / Adrian Danks Danks, Adrian 102
• 5 Delmer Daves, Authenticity, and Auteur Elements: Celebrating the Ordinary in Cowboy / Sue Matheson Matheson, Sue 118
• 6 Home and the Range: Spencer's Mountain as Revisionist Family Melodrama / Joseph Pomp Pomp, Joseph 135
• 7 Delmer Daves' 3:10 to Yuma: Aesthetics, Reception, and Cultural Significance / Fran Pheasant-Kelly Pheasant-Kelly, Fran 149
• 8 Changing Societies: The Red House, The Hanging Tree, Spencer's Mountain, and Post-war America / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Berns, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni 166
• 9 Partial Rehabilitation: Task Force and the Case of Billy Mitchell / Andrew Howe Howe, Andrew 184
• 10 "This Is Where He Brought Me: 10,000 Acres of Nothing!": The Femme Fatale and other Film Noir Tropes in Delmer Daves' Jubal / Matthew Carter Carter, Matthew 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781474403016
• 1474403018

OCLC:

928134388