by Tracy, Tony; Flynn, Roddy
Book / 2010
TitleJohn Huston : essays on a restless director
Item typeBook
Author(s)
  • Tracy, Tony
  • Flynn, Roddy
ImprintJefferson, N.C. McFarland & Company, 2010
ISBN
  • 9780786458530
  • 0786458534
LanguageEnglish
URLLink to original record
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Introduction / Tony Tracy and Roddy Flynn -- "Let's just see if it matters": an interview with Anjelica Huston / Tony Tracy -- Strange but close partners: Huston, romantic comedy and The African queen / Pablo Echart -- The ideological adventure of The man who would be king / Julie F. Codell -- The way we were and White hunter, black heart : Huston in fiction and reel life / Patrick McGilligan -- Huston's Mexico / Richard Vela -- The discreet charm of Huston and Buñuel: notes on a cinematic odd couple / Neil Sinyard -- Huston and the American South: The night of the iguana and Wise blood / Gary D. Rhodes -- Re-visioning the Western: landscape and gender in The misfits / Georgiana Banita -- Ethical commitment and political dissidence: Huston, HUAC, Hollywood and Key Largo / Reynold Humphries -- King adapter: Huston's famous and infamous adaptations of literary classics / Page Laws -- The melodramatic conscience of In this our life / Victoria Amador -- The Irish accent of The dead / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- A walk with love and death: from the jacquerie of 1358 to the turbulence of 1968 / Peter G. Christensen -- The Western, The Westerner, The Westerness: William Wyler, Menippean Satire and John Huston's The life and times of Judge Roy Bean / Lesley Brill -- John Huston and an Irish film industry / Roddy Flynn and Diog O'Connell -- Recollections of Huston: a conversation with Wieland Schultz-Keil / Tony Tracy.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.
Physical descriptionvi, 226 p. ; 23 cm.

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2010
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Tracy, TonyFlynn, Roddy
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McFarland & Company
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Millenium MARC Record: 
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