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This study is the first general critical introduction to the writing of Horton Foote, recipient of two Academy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. These original essays survey Foote's career, his work for theater, television, and film, with analysis of Foote's major themes and characteristic style in all three media. The casebook concludes with a list of Foote's produced work, as well as a selective annotated bibliography of primary criticism on the playwright. This book demonstrates the influence of personal biography and Southern literature on Foote's career. The essayists also investigate the writer's contribution to American dramatic realism and independent filmmaking, emphasizing his experimentation with musical structure, dedramatization, and complex subtexts. Foote's disarmingly simple stories, with their radically understated language, are explained in many articles as the product of the subtle influence of the psychological and religious views of the author.

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"""This casebook finally provides the overview students and scholars have been needing. A treasure trove for those who already admire Foote-and a great introduction for those who barely know him. A must for all academic and public libraries."" -- Choice"

This casebook finally provides the overview students and scholars have been needing. A treasure trove for those who already admire Foote-and a great introduction for those who barely know him. A must for all academic and public libraries. <br>-Choice <br>

This casebook finally provides the overview students and scholars have been needing. A treasure trove for those who already admire Foote-and a great introduction for those who barely know him. A must for all academic and public libraries. -- Choice

This casebook finally provides the overview students and scholars have been needing. A treasure trove for those who already admire Foote-and a great introduction for those who barely know him. A must for all academic and public libraries. -Choice

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Gerald C. Wood

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