ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS. ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks

## The first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook’s literariness" * Offers a critical assessment by well-known film scholars * Explores Brooks’s engagement with intellectual and cultural trends * Discusses Brooks’s engagement with genres __ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks__ highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America’s most important and successful directors, with an emphasis on the "literary" aspects of his career, including his work as a screenwriter and adaptor of such modern classics as __Cat on a Hot Tin Roof__, __Lord Jim__, and __The Brothers Karamazov__. Contents Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Brick Foxhole (1945): Richard Brooks’s American Vision Chapter 3. The Muted Voices of Conscience and Responsibility in Crisis (1950) Chapter 4. Deadline—U.S.A. (1952): A Fox Film of Fact Chapter 5. “Man Against the Times”: Conformity, Anti-Statism, and the “Unknown” Korean War in Battle Circus (1953) Chapter 6. Captured Interiors: Female Performances in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) and The Happy Ending (1969) Chapter 7. Blackboard Jungle (1955): A Cinematic Education Chapter 8. Hunting and the Economics of Adaptation: The Last Hunt (1956) and The Professionals (1966) Chapter 9. The Curse of Money: Negotiating Marriage in The Catered Affair (1956) Chapter 10. Adapting Modernism: Richard Brooks and The Brothers Karamazov (1958) Chapter 11. Haunted: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Chapter 12. A Bite of Salvation Chapter 13. “Monstrous Cinemascope”: Richard Brooks Adapts Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) Chapter 14. Adapting the Unadaptables: Lord Jim (1965) Chapter 15. Adaptation as Mutation: In Cold Blood (1967) Chapter 16. Looking for Mr. Good Guy: Anatomizing ’70s Fracture and Fragmentation Chapter 17. Failing to Locate Wrong is Right (1982) and What that Reveals about Cinematic Reality Bibliography Index The first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook’s literariness" Offers a critical assessment by well-known film scholars Explores Brooks’s engagement with intellectual and cultural trends Discusses Brooks’s engagement with genres ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America’s most important and successful directors, with an emphasis on the "literary" aspects of his career, including his work as a screenwriter and adaptor of such modern classics as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Lord Jim , and The Brothers Karamazov .