ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher (ReFocus: The American Directors Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474437532 ISBN 13: 9781474437530

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Gary D. Rhodes is Professor of Media, Oklahoma Baptist University. He is the author of Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (2012), The Perils of Moviegoing in America (2012), and The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018). He is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Rhodes is also the writer-director of the documentary films Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004).

Robert Singer, Professor of Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center [ret]. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in Comparative Literature. His areas of expertise include literary and film interrelations, interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics, and comparative studies. He is the ReFocus: American and International Film series co-editor for Edinburgh University Press. He has written and directed several independent short films and co-produced the animated film, Ulalume (2022). Among his more recent publications are Consuming Images: Film Art and the Television Commercial (EUP, 2020), co-authored with Gary Rhodes, and “A View from the Boardwalk: The W.P.A. New York City Guide and Coney Island Hypertext,” in Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers’ Project, ed. Sara Rutkowski, (2022).

From the Back Cover

Please change name order to Rhodes & Singer. This series produces new critical volumes from an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing influential, yet neglected, American directors to the attention of a new audience of scholars and students in both Film Studies and American Studies. ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher 'Rigorous, tightly focused, lucid and forceful - Budd Boetticher's films lend their own distinctive attributes to this outstanding and long-overdue collection of critical essays on the great Hollywood director. While his celebrated Westerns rightly take centre stage, an impressive posse of scholars does full justice to the entirety of Boetticher's varied oeuvre. An indispensable contribution.' Barry Langford, Royal Holloway, University of London 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 Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood among influential figures 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 acclaimed films like Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) and Comanche Station (1960), as well as at lesser-known works such as 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. Gary D. Rhodes currently serves as Postgraduate Director for Film Studies at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Robert Singer is a Professor of Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Cover image: Comanche Station, 1960, Budd Boetticher (c) Columbia/The Kobal Collection Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-1903-1 Barcode

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474437532
• ISBN 13: 9781474437530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Rhodes Gary D., Singer Robert