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OverviewArgues that understanding Huston's film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Douglas McFarland , Wesley KingPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438463735ISBN 10: 1438463731 Pages: 326 Publication Date: 01 February 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Illustrations Acknowledgments Editors' Introduction: Huston as Reader Douglas McFarland and Wesley King Introduction: Adapted by John Huston Thomas Leitch Part I. Aesthetics and Textuality 1. A Passing Node: The Asphalt Jungle Murray Pomerance 2. Adapting Addiction: Modernist Aesthetics in Under the Volcano Douglas McFarland 3. Taking Gabriel at His Word: Narration and Huston's The Dead Robert L. Colson 4. On Beams and Birds: John Huston's Adaptation of The Maltese Falcon Steven Rybin 5. A Screenplay-centric Analysis of Huston's The Man Who Would Be King Jonathan C. Glance Part II. History and Social Context 6. ""Proceed with the Execution"": Casting, Convention, and the Diminishment of Rose in The African Queen Wesley King and Douglas McFarland 7. John Huston and Postwar Hollywood: The Night of the Iguana in Context R. Barton Palmer 8. ""This Has Got to Be a Masterpiece"": John Huston's Mangled Adaptation of The Red Badge of Courage Dale M. Pollock 9. Shadowboxing in the Sun: Fighters, Their Bodies, and Their Spaces in Fat City Tom Dorey 10. Prizzi's Honor: Greed and Gender in the Beginning of the Neoliberal Era Betty Kaklamanidou 11. Hints of Modernism, Shades of Noir: Huston's Maltese Falcon as Transitional Text Alan Woolfolk 12. Of Borders and Bandits: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Camilla Fojas 13. ""The Thing behind the Mask"": Period, Pacing, and Visual Style in John Huston's Moby Dick Nathan Ragain Part III. Theory and Psychoanalysis 14. Huston's Freud: Adapting the Life of Psychoanalysis David Sigler 15. Queer Movements: Color, Performance, and Rhythm in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden Eye Kyle Stevens 16. Flannery O'Connor's Symbolic Motif and the Psychoanalytic Objects of John Huston's Wise Blood Wesley King Contributors Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationDouglas McFarland is a retired Professor of English at Flagler College. Wesley King is Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |