Horton Foote
By: editor, Robert W. Haynes, Texas A&M International University, Laredo
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc.; Grey House Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Ipswich, MA; Amenia, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781619258402
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Motion picture plays
Description: American playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote is most notably known for his 1962 adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, the screenplay for the 1983 film, Tender Mercies, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1995 play, The Young Man from Atlanta. This volume examines these works and more, such as the nine-play Orphans' Home cycle, based on Foote's own childhood. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources: a chronology of the author's life, a complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index. - Publisher.

American playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote is best known for his 1962 adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, the screenplay for the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Young Man From Atlanta. Critical essays in this volume examine these works and other dramas, including the nine-play Orphans' Home Cycle, which is based on Foote's own family history. -- Amazon.
Table of contents: title: About this volume / Robert W. Haynes; title: On Appreciating Horton Foote / Robert W. Haynes; title: Biography of Horton Foote / Robert W. Haynes; title: All Lives Matter: African Americans in Horton Foote's South / Rebecca Luttrell Briley; title: Horton Foote's Critical Reputation / Gerald C. Wood; title: Between South and West: Placing "The Young Man From Atlanta" / Robert Donahoo; title: Two Cultural Paradigms of Endurance: A Comparative Study of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful and Lu Xun's "Blessing" / Xueying Wang; title: Horton Foote: A Not-So Bitter Southerner / Terry Barr; title: "I always wanted a boy the town could be proud of": Issues of Conformity and Community in Horton Foote's Dual Versions of The Chase / Roy J. Gonzáles Jr.; title: The Orphans' Home Cycle and the Intuition of the Soul / Crystal Brian; title: A Dramatist's Archive: An Overview of the Horton Foote Papers at DeGolyer Library / Cynthia Franco; title: Monuments, Memory, and Self-Location: Biographical Resources in Horton Foote's Drama / Robert W. Haynes; title: "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them": Scout and Jem Finch from Novel to Film / Jan Whitt; title: Horton Foote, the Evolution of a Film Script, and the Art of Collaboration in Tender Mercies / Gerald C. Wood; title: What the Old Folks Say: Repetition, Circular Thinking, and Magical Thinking in Three Plays by Horton Foote / Elizabeth Fifer; title: The Sane Face of Texas: Pursuing the Decent Life in Horton Foote's Films / Robert W. Haynes; title: Chronology of Horton Foote's Life; title: Works by Horton Foote; title: Bibliography; title: About the Editor; title: Contributors