From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers have been as critically overlooked in existing scholarly literature. Often regarded as an embodiment of the self-effacing craftsmanship of classical and post-War Hollywood, films such as Broken Arrow (1950) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957) reveal a filmmaker concerned with style as much as sociocultural significance. As the first comprehensive study of Daves’s career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even naïve studio man.
| ISBN: | 9781474425988 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2017 |
| Author: | Andrew Nelson |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
History of art Individual film directors, film-makers Film history, theory or criticism Film: styles and genres |