From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers have been as critically overlooked in existing scholarly literature. Often regarded as an embodiment of the self-effacing craftsmanship of classical and post-War Hollywood, films such as Broken Arrow (1950) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957) reveal a filmmaker concerned with style as much as sociocultural significance. As the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even naĆÆve studio man.
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- ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: āNo One Would Know It Was Mineā: Delmer Daves, Modest Auteur
- 1 Donāt Be Too Quick to Dismiss Them: Authorship and the Westerns of Delmer Daves
- 2 Trying to Ameliorate the Within: Delmer Davesā Westerns from the 1950s
- 3 Bent, or Lifted Out by Its Roots: Davesā Broken Arrow and Drum Beat as Narratives of Conditional Sympathy
- 4 This Room is My Castle of Quiet: The Collaborations of Delmer Daves and Glenn Ford
- 5 Delmer Daves, Authenticity, and Auteur Elements: Celebrating the Ordinary in Cowboy
- 6 Home and the Range: Spencerās Mountain as Revisionist Family Melodrama
- 7 Delmer Davesā 3:10 to Yuma: Aesthetics, Reception, and Cultural Significance
- 8 Changing Societies: The Red House, The Hanging Tree, Spencerās Mountain, and Post-war America
- 9 Partial Rehabilitation: Task Force and the Case of Billy Mitchell
- 10 "This Is Where He Brought Me: 10,000 Acres of Nothin!": The Femme Fatale and other Film Noir Tropes in Delmer Daves' Jubal
- Index
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