ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

ISBN-13: 9781474437530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Gary D Rhodes

Opis

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

Spis treści

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