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…mehr
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.
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.
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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
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
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