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ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America's most important and successful directors, with an emphasis on the ""literary"" aspects of his career, including his work as a screenwriter and adaptor of such modern classics as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Lord Jim, and The Brothers Karamazov.

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Author:   R. Barton Palmer (Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Clemson University) ,  Homer B. Pettey (Professor Emeritus of Film and Comparative Literature, University of Arizona)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474496582

ISBN 10:   147449658
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 November 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIllustrationsNotes on Contributors 1. Introduction - R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey 2. The Brick Foxhole (1945): Richard Brooks’s American Vision - Matthew H. Bernstein 3. The Muted Voices of Conscience and Responsibility in Crisis (1950) - Alan Woolfolk 4. Deadline U.S.A. (1952): A Fox Film of Fact - R. Barton Palmer 5. ""Man Against the Times"": Conformity, Anti-Statism and the ‘Unknown’ Korean War in Battle Circus (1953) - Ian Scott 6. Captured Interiors: Female Performances in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) and The Happy Ending (1969) - Daniel Varndell 7. Blackboard Jungle (1955): A Cinematic Education - Steven Rybin 8. Hunting and the Economics of Adaptation: The Last Hunt (1956) and The Professionals (1966) - Homer B. Pettey 9. The Curse of Money: Negotiating Marriage in A Catered Affair (1956) - Elisabeth Bronfen 10. Adapting Modernism: Richard Brooks and The Brothers Karamazov (1958) - Douglas McFarland 11. Haunted: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - David Sterritt 12. A Bite of Salvation - Murray Pomerance 13. ""Monstrous Cinemascope"": Richard Brooks Adapts Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) - William H. Epstein 14. Adapting the Unadaptables: Lord Jim (1965) - Thomas Leitch 15. Adaptation as Mutation: In Cold Blood (1967) - Jennifer L. Jenkins 16. Looking for Mr. Good Guy: Anatomizing 70s Fracture and Fragmentation - Julie Grossman 17. Failing to Locate Wrong is Right (1982) and What that Reveals about Cinematic Reality - Allen H. Redmon BiblioographyIndex

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A comprehensive and telling treatment of an often overlooked director, ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks includes incisive and elegantly written essays from major film scholars that appreciate a genial director and his oeuvre. --Tom Conley, Harvard University In this volume, the rich and varied career of 'literary director' Richard Brooks finally receives its well-deserved re-evaluation. The fine set of essays commissioned by Palmer and Pettey describes Brooks as a writer-filmmaker equally committed to the respectful adaptation of literary fiction as he was to a socially concerned cinema. --Constantine Verevis, Monash University

Author Information

R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Emeritus at Clemson University. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011). He is the series editor for EUP’s traditions in World Cinema, Traditions in American Cinema and International Film Stars series, and he is co-editor of five recent EUP books: Michael Mann, George Cukor, Film Noir, International Noir and The Other Hollywood Renaissance. Homer B. Pettey is Professor Emeritus of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. He serves as the founding and general editor for Global Film Directors (Rutgers U.P.), Global Film Studios (Edinburgh U.P.), and International Stars (Edinburgh U.P.).

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