Refocus: The Films of Delmer Daves

by Matthew Carter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474425984
• ISBN13: 9781474425988
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"