Title Statements
- Full title :John Huston as adaptor / edited by Douglas McFarland and Wesley King.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New York, State University of New York Press
- Place of Publication:Albany
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017
The Physical Object
- Description:xix, 305 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781438463735, 1438463731
- oclc:on1022925985
- Dewey Decimal:791.430 233092
Table of Contents
Aesthetics and textuality. A passing node: The asphalt jungle / Murray Pomerance ; Adapting addiction: modernist aesthetics in Under the volcano / Douglas McFarland ; Taking Gabriel at his word: narration and Huston's The dead / Robert L. Colson ; On beams and birds: John Huston's adaptation of The maltese falcon / Steven Rybin ; A screenplay-centric analysis of Huston's The man who would be king / Jonathan c. Glance ; History and social context. Proceed with the execution: casting, convention, and the diminishment of Rose in The African queen / Wesley King and Douglas McFarland ; John Huston and postwar Hollywood: The night of the iguana in context / R. Barton Palmer ; This has got to be a masterpiece: John Huston's mangled adaptation of The red badge of courage / Dale M. Pollock ; Shadowboxing in the sun: fighters, their bodies, & their spaces in Fat city / Tom Dorey ; Prizzi's honor: greed and gender in the beginning of the neoliberal era / Betty Kaklamanidou ; Hints of modernism, shades of noir: Huston's Maltese falcon as transitional text / Alan Woolfolk ; Of borders and bandits: The treasure of the Sierra Madre / Camilla Fojas ; The thing behind the mask: period, pacing, and…
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