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The first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook's literariness"
Offers a critical assessment by well-known film scholars
Explores Brooks's engagement with intellectual and cultural trends
Discusses Brooks's engagement with genres
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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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
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