ReFocus
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2023
304 pages
978-1-4744-9659-9 (ISBN)
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The first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook's literariness"e;"e;
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R. Barton Palmer | Homer B. Pettey
ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks
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02/2023
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Brick Foxhole (1945): Richard Brooks's American Vision
- 3 The Muted Voices of Conscience and Responsibility in Crisis (1950)
- 4 Deadline-U.S.A. (1952): A Fox Film of Fact
- 5 "Man Against the Times": Conformity, Anti-Statism, and the "Unknown" Korean War in Battle Circus (1953)
- 6 Captured Interiors: Female Performances in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) and The Happy Ending (1969)
- 7 Blackboard Jungle (1955): A Cinematic Education
- 8 Hunting and the Economics of Adaptation: The Last Hunt (1956) and The Professionals (1966)
- 9 The Curse of Money: Negotiating Marriage in The Catered Affair (1956)
- 10 Adapting Modernism: Richard Brooks and The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
- 11 Haunted: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- 12 A Bite of Salvation
- 13 "Monstrous Cinemascope": Richard Brooks Adapts Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
- 14 Adapting the Unadaptables: Lord Jim (1965)
- 15 Adaptation as Mutation: In Cold Blood (1967)
- 16 Looking for Mr. Good Guy: Anatomizing '70s Fracture and Fragmentation
- 17 Failing to Locate Wrong is Right (1982) and What that Reveals about Cinematic Reality
- Bibliography
- Index
