The literary films of Richard Brooks / edited by R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.

Pettey, Homer B., editor.

Series:

ReFocus, the American directors series.

ReFocus : The American directors series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooks, Richard, 1912-1992--Criticism and interpretation.

Brooks, Richard.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

At head of title: ReFocus

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

<i>ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks</i> highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America's most important and successful directors, with an emphasis on the 'literary' aspects of his career, including his work as a screenwriter and adaptor of such modern classics as 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', 'Lord Jim', and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474496605

1474496601

9781474496599

1474496598

OCLC:

1374540358