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John Huston essays on a restless director
Title:
John Huston essays on a restless director
Author:
Tracy, Tony.
ISBN:
9780786459933
Publication Information:
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 226 p.)
Contents:
Introduction / Tony Tracy and Roddy Flynn -- "Let's just see if it matters": an interview with Anjelica Huston / Tony Tracy -- Strange but close partners: Huston, romantic comedy and The African queen / Pablo Echart -- The ideological adventure of The man who would be king / Julie F. Codell -- The way we were and White hunter, black heart: Huston in fiction and reel life / Patrick McGilligan -- Huston's Mexico / Richard Vela -- The discreet charm of Huston and Buñuel: notes on a cinematic odd couple / Neil Sinyard -- Huston and the American South: The night of the iguana and Wise blood / Gary D. Rhodes -- Re-visioning the Western: landscape and gender in The misfits / Georgiana Banita -- Ethical commitment and political dissidence: Huston, HUAC, Hollywood and Key Largo / Reynold Humphries -- King adapter: Huston's famous and infamous adaptations of literary classics / Page Laws -- The melodramatic conscience of In this our life / Victoria Amador -- The Irish accent of The dead / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- A walk with love and death: from the jacquerie of 1358 to the turbulence of 1968 / Peter G. Christensen -- The Western, The Westerner, The Westerness: William Wyler, Menippean Satire and John Huston's The life and times of Judge Roy Bean / Lesley Brill -- John Huston and an Irish film industry / Roddy Flynn and Diog O'Connell -- Recollections of Huston: a conversation with Wieland Schultz-Keil / Tony Tracy.
Abstract:
"Fresh analyses of films are included along with insightful studies of Huston's oft-overlooked literary adaptations. Also evaluated are Huston's controversial World War II documentary, and two a clef portraits of the "real" Huston in the films The Way We Were and White Hunter, Black Heart. Bookending these essays are revealing interviews"--Provided by publisher.
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