The Literary Films of Richard Brooks

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Edited by R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey

Type

Film Reviews

Subject

Director > Richard Brooks

Keywords

Richard Brooks

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

ReFocus: The American Directors Series

1st publishing

2023

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 304 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-9658-2

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the authors:
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Emeritus at Clemson University. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011). He is the series editor for EUP’s traditions in World Cinema, Traditions in American Cinema and International Film Stars series, and he is co-editor of five recent EUP books: Michael Mann, George Cukor, Film Noir, International Noir and The Other Hollywood Renaissance.Homer B. Pettey is Professor Emeritus of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. He serves as the founding and general editor for Global Film Directors (Rutgers U.P.), Global Film Studios (Edinburgh U.P.), and International Stars (Edinburgh U.P.).

Press Reviews:
In this volume, the rich and varied career of ‘literary director’ Richard Brooks finally receives its well-deserved re-evaluation. The fine set of essays commissioned by Palmer and Pettey describes Brooks as a writer-filmmaker equally committed to the respectful adaptation of literary fiction as he was to a socially concerned cinema.
-- Constantine Verevis, Monash University

A comprehensive and telling treatment of an often overlooked director, ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks includes incisive and elegantly written essays from major film scholars that appreciate a genial director and his oeuvre.
-- Tom Conley, Harvard University

In this edited collection, scholars working in film and cultural studies give Brooks his critical due as a filmmaker of literary fiction. The essays contain a panoply of perspectives that engage and otherwise challenge, in the words of the series’s mission, "American culture―its myths, values, and historical precepts." -- Tiffany Gilbert ― Tennessee Williams Annual Review

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