John Huston

Essays on a Restless Director
Herausgeber: Flynn, Roddy; Tracy, Tony

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Produktbeschreibung

Years after his death, American filmmaker John Huston (1906-1987) remains an enigmatic and compelling figure. This wide-ranging collection of new essays encompasses a variety of topics relating to Huston's lifestyle, political activities and cinematic legacy. Fresh analyses of such films as Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Misfits and Prizzi's Honor are included along with insightful studies of Huston's oft-overlooked literary adaptations In This Our Life, Moby Dick and A Walk With Love and Death. Also evaluated are Huston's controversial World War II documentary Let There Be Light, 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 with John's actress daughter Angelica Huston and film producer Wieland Schultz-Keil.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9780786458530
• ISBN-10: 0786458534
• Artikelnr.: 29370558

Autorenporträt

Tony Tracy is associate director of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media at National University of Ireland, Galway, where he teaches course in Irish, American and European cinema. He is on the board of the Fresh Film Festival and the Boston Irish Film Festival. Roddy Flynn lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
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 Westernest: 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 Schulz- Keil
TONY TRACY     
Bibliography     
About the Contributors     
Index