ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

Gary D Rhodes; Robert Singer

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2017

ReFocus

The Films of Budd Boetticher

Gary D Rhodes and Robert Singer

In the series ReFocus: The American Directors Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474419048

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About this book

A vital collection of essays on Budd Boetticher’s long directing career

One of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs, Budd Boetticher was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous ‘Ranown’ series of westerns starring Randolph Scott. With influential figures like Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood acknowledging Boetticher’s influence, and with growing academic interest in his work, Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director’s long career, from a range of international scholars. Looking at celebrated films like Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) and Comanche Station (1960), as well as at lesser-known works like Escape in the Fog (1945) and Behind Locked Doors (1948), this book also addresses Boetticher’s influential television work on the James Garner series Maverick, and Boetticher’s continuing aesthetic influence on contemporary TV classics like Breaking Bad.

Contributors

Karina Aveyard, University of Sydney
Lucy Fife Donaldson, University of St. Andrews
Robert Guffey, California State University – Long Beach
Fredrik Gustafsson, Swedish Film Institute and Örebro University
Brooks E. Hefner, James Madison University
David J. Hogan, Film Historian and Journalist
Hugh S. Manon, Clark University
Christopher Minz, Georgia State University
Steve Neale, University of Exeter
Gary D. Rhodes, The Queen’s University in Belfast
Marlisa Santos, Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale
Robert Singer, CUNY Graduate Center
John White, Anglia Ruskin University
Tony Williams, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Robert Singer and Gary D. Rhodes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 The Non-Westerns
Part 1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
1. “I never did think he was crazy”: Mystery and Criminality in Boetticher’s Psychological Noirs Marlisa Santos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. On Ethics and Style in Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) Fredrik Gustafsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3. Domestic Tension and Male Hysteria: The Killer is Loose (1956) Tony Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
4. The Killer is Loose (1956) and the Televisual Dissolution of Film Noir Hugh S. Manon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
5. Adventures on the Small Screen: Boetticher, Warner Bros., and Maverick David J. Hogan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
6. The Signifying Heel: Boetticher’s The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) Robert Singer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Part 2 The Westerns
Part 2 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7. The Ranown Cycle: Budd Boetticher’s “New Look” Western Programmers in 1950s Hollywood Zoë Wallin and Karina Aveyard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8. Framings, Motifs, and Floating Poker Games in Seven Men from Now (1956) Steve Neale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
9. The Ranown Style: Mapping Textual Echoes Lucy Fife Donaldson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
10. You Were Married, But You Never Had a Wife: The Use of Space in the Westerns of Budd Boetticher Christopher Minz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
11. Ideology and Boetticher’s Westerns from the Late 1950s John White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
12. Outlaws Without a Cause: Generational Conflict in Budd Boetticher’s Ranown Cycle Brooks E. Hefner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
13. The Box in the Desert: Budd Boetticher, Breaking Bad, and the Twenty-first-century Western Robert Guffey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 35 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: February 21, 2017
ISBN: 9781474419048