The Films of Budd Boetticher

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Edited by Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer

Type

Film Reviews

Subject

Director > Budd Boetticher

Keywords

Budd Boetticher, western

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

ReFocus: The American Directors Series

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 264 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-1903-1

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Book Presentation:
A vital collection of essays on Budd Boetticher’s long directing career

One of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs, Budd Boetticher was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous ‘Ranown’ series of westerns starring Randolph Scott. With influential figures like Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood acknowledging Boetticher’s influence, and with growing academic interest in his work, Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director’s long career, from a range of international scholars. Looking at celebrated films like Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) and Comanche Station (1960), as well as at lesser-known works like Escape in the Fog (1945) and Behind Locked Doors (1948), this book also addresses Boetticher’s influential television work on the James Garner series Maverick, and Boetticher’s continuing aesthetic influence on contemporary TV classics like Breaking Bad.

Contributors
• Karina Aveyard, University of Sydney
• Lucy Fife Donaldson, University of St. Andrews
• Robert Guffey, California State University – Long Beach
• Fredrik Gustafsson, Swedish Film Institute and Örebro University
• Brooks E. Hefner, James Madison University
• David J. Hogan, Film Historian and Journalist
• Hugh S. Manon, Clark University
• Christopher Minz, Georgia State University
• Steve Neale, University of Exeter
• Gary D. Rhodes, The Queen’s University in Belfast
• Marlisa Santos, Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale
• Robert Singer, CUNY Graduate Center
• John White, Anglia Ruskin University
• Tony Williams, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

About the authors:
Gary D. Rhodes is Professor of Media, Oklahoma Baptist University. He is the author of Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (2012), The Perils of Moviegoing in America (2012), and The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018). He is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Rhodes is also the writer-director of the documentary films Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Robert Singer, Professor of Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center [ret]. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in Comparative Literature. His areas of expertise include literary and film interrelations, interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics, and comparative studies. He is the ReFocus: American and International Film series co-editor for Edinburgh University Press. He has written and directed several independent short films and co-produced the animated film, Ulalume (2022). Among his more recent publications are Consuming Images: Film Art and the Television Commercial (EUP, 2020), co-authored with Gary Rhodes, and "A View from the Boardwalk: The W.P.A. New York City Guide and Coney Island Hypertext," in Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project, ed. Sara Rutkowski, (2022).

Press Reviews:
The diversity of approach and the individuality of the writing come together for a common focus with such clarity and illumination, resulting in Refocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher being an essential read. It is the publication that fans of Budd Boetticher have longed for.'– Dean Brandum, Senses of Cinema

Rigorous, tightly focused, lucid and forceful – Budd Boetticher’s films lend their own distinctive attributes to this outstanding and long overdue collection of critical essays on the great Hollywood director. While his celebrated Westerns rightly take centre stage, an impressive posse of scholars does full justice to the entirety of Boetticher’s varied oeuvre. An indispensable contribution.'– Professor Barry Langford, Royal Holloway, University of London

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press

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