ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves
1st Edition
Published on 25. May 2016
240 pages
978-1-4744-1370-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 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 sociocultural significance. As the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even naive studio man.
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Content
- Intro
- ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- 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 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 Nothin!": The Femme Fatale and other Film Noir Tropes in Delmer Daves' Jubal
- Index
