ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

Gary D. Rhodes, Robert Singer

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474419048
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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.

Table of contents

• ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher
• Copyright
• Contents
• The Contributors
• Introduction
• Part 1 Introduction
• 1 “I never did think he was crazy”:
• 2 On Ethics and Style in Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
• 3 Domestic Tension and Male Hysteria: The Killer is Loose (1956)
• 4 The Killer is Loose (1956) and
• 5 Adventures on the Small Screen: Boetticher, Warner Bros., and Maverick
• 6 The Signifying Heel: Boetticher’s The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
• Part 2 Introduction
• 8 Framings, Motifs, and Floating Poker Games in Seven Men from Now (1956)
• 7 The Ranown Cycle: Budd Boetticher’s “New Look” Western Programmers in 1950s Hollywood
• 9 The Ranown Style: Mapping Textual Echoes
• 10You Were Married, But You Never Had a Wife: The Use of Space in the Westerns of Budd Boetticher
• 11 Ideology and Boetticher’s Westerns from the late 1950s
• 12 Outlaws Without a Cause: Generational Conflict in Budd Boetticher’s Ranown Cycle
• 13 The Box in the Desert: Budd Boetticher, Breaking Bad, and the Twenty-first-Century Western
• Index