McFarland / King John Huston as Adaptor

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6374-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McFarland, Douglas

King, Wesley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Editors’ Introduction: Huston as Reader
Douglas McFarland and Wesley King

Introduction: Adapted by John Huston
Thomas Leitch

Part I. Aesthetics and Textuality

1. A Passing Node: The Asphalt Jungle
Murray Pomerance

2. Adapting Addiction: Modernist Aesthetics in Under the Volcano
Douglas McFarland

3. Taking Gabriel at His Word: Narration and Huston’s The Dead
Robert L. Colson

4. On Beams and Birds: John Huston’s Adaptation of The Maltese Falcon
Steven Rybin

5. A Screenplay-centric Analysis of Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King
Jonathan C. Glance

Part II. History and Social Context

6. “Proceed with the Execution”: Casting, Convention, and the Diminishment of Rose in The African Queen
Wesley King and Douglas McFarland

7. John Huston and Postwar Hollywood: The Night of the Iguana in Context
R. Barton Palmer

8. “This Has Got to Be a Masterpiece”: John Huston’s Mangled Adaptation of The Red Badge of Courage
Dale M. Pollock

9. Shadowboxing in the Sun: Fighters, Their Bodies, and Their Spaces in Fat City
Tom Dorey

10. Prizzi’s Honor: Greed and Gender in the Beginning of the Neoliberal Era
Betty Kaklamanidou

11. Hints of Modernism, Shades of Noir: Huston’s Maltese Falcon as Transitional Text
Alan Woolfolk

12. Of Borders and Bandits: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Camilla Fojas

13. “The Thing behind the Mask”: Period, Pacing, and Visual Style in John Huston’s Moby Dick
Nathan Ragain

Part III. Theory and Psychoanalysis

14. Huston’s Freud: Adapting the Life of Psychoanalysis
David Sigler

15. Queer Movements: Color, Performance, and Rhythm in John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye
Kyle Stevens

16. Flannery O’Connor’s Symbolic Motif and the Psychoanalytic Objects of John Huston’s Wise Blood
Wesley King

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas McFarland is a retired Professor of English at Flagler College. Wesley King is Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College.