John Huston
Subtitle: essays on a restless director
By: edited by Tony Tracy and Roddy Flynn.
Contributors: Tracy, Tony.; Flynn, Roddy.
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786458530
Subjects: Huston, John, -- 1906-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Fresh analyses of films are included along with insightful studies of Huston's oft-overlooked literary adaptations. Also evaluated are Huston's controversial World War II documentary, and two a clef portraits of the "real" Huston in the films The Way We Were and White Hunter, Black Heart. Bookending these essays are revealing interviews"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Tony Tracy and Roddy Flynn; title: "Let's just see if it matters" : an interview with Anjelica Huston / Tony Tracy; title: Strange but close partners : Huston, romantic comedy and The African queen / Pablo Echart; title: The ideological adventure of The man who would be king / Julie F. Codell; title: The way we were and White hunter, black heart : Huston in fiction and reel life / Patrick McGilligan; title: Huston's Mexico / Richard Vela; title: The discreet charm of Huston and Bunuel : notes on a cinematic odd couple / Neil Sinyard; title: Huston and the American South : The night of the iguana and Wise blood / Gary D. Rhodes; title: Re-visioning the Western : landscape and gender in The misfits / Georgiana Banita; title: Ethical commitment and political dissidence : Huston, HUAC, Hollywood and Key Largo / Reynold Humphries; title: King adapter : Huston's famous and infamous adaptations of literary classics / Page Laws; title: The melodramatic conscience of In this our life / Victoria Amador; title: The Irish accent of The dead /; title: Michael Patrick Gillespie; title: A walk with love and death : from the jacquerie of 1358 to the turbulence of 1968 / Peter G. Christensen; title: The Western, The Westerner, The Westernest : William Wyler, Menippean Satire and John Huston's The life and times of Judge Roy Bean / Lesley Brill; title: John Huston and an Irish film industry / Roddy Flynn and Diog O'Connell; title: Recollections of Huston : a conversation with Wieland Schultz-Keil / Tony Tracy.