ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

Herausgeber: Rhodes, Gary D.; Singer, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

An evaluation of one of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs â Â Budd Boetticher â Â who was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous â Ranownâ series of westerns starring Randolph Scott.

Produktdetails

• ReFocus: The American Directors Series
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781474437530
• ISBN-10: 1474437532
• Artikelnr.: 51148618

Autorenporträt

Gary D. Rhodes is Professor of Media, Oklahoma Baptist University. He is the author of Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (2012), The Perils of Moviegoing in America (2012), and The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018). He is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Rhodes is also the writer-director of the documentary films Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Robert Singer, Professor of Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center [ret]. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in Comparative Literature. His areas of expertise include literary and film interrelations, interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics, and comparative studies. He is the ReFocus: American and International Film series co-editor for Edinburgh University Press. He has written and directed several independent short films and co-produced the animated film, Ulalume (2022). Among his more recent publications are Consuming Images: Film Art and the Television Commercial (EUP, 2020), co-authored with Gary Rhodes, and "A View from the Boardwalk: The W.P.A. New York City Guide and Coney Island Hypertext," in Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project, ed. Sara Rutkowski, (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Introduction
Section 1 introduction
Chapter 1: "I never did think he was crazy": Mystery and Criminality in
Boetticher's Psychological Noirs, by Marlisa Santos
Chapter 2: On ethics and style in Bullfighter and the Lady (1951), by
Fredrik Gustafsson
Chapter 3: Domestic Tension and Male Hysteria: The Killer is Loose (1956),
by Tony Williams
Chapter 4: The Killer is Loose (1956) and the Televisual Dissolution of
Film Noir, by Hugh S. Manon
Chapter 5: Adventures on the Small Screen: Boetticher, Warner Bros., and
Maverick, by David J. Hogan
Chapter 6: The Signifying Heel: Boetticher's The Rise and Fall of Legs
Diamond (1960), by Robert Singer
Section 2 introduction
Chapter 7: The Ranown Cycle: Budd Boetticher's "New Look" Western
Programmers in 1950s Hollywood, by Zoe Wallin and Karina Aveyard
Chapter 8: Framings, Motifs and Floating Poker Games in Seven Men from Now
(1956), by Steve Neale
Chapter 9: The Ranown Style: Mapping Textual Echoes, by Lucy Fife Donaldson
Chapter 10: You Were Married, But You Never Had a Wife: The Use of Space in
the Westerns of Budd Boetticher, by Christopher Minz
Chapter 11: Ideology and Boetticher's Westerns from the late 1950s, by John
White
Chapter 12: Outlaws Without a Cause: Generational Conflict in Budd
Boetticher's Ranown Cycle, by Brooks E. Hefner
Chapter 13: The Box in the Desert: Budd Boetticher, Breaking Bad, and the
21st Century Western, by Robert Guffey
Author Biographies