Refocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher

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This series produces new critical volumes from an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing influential, yet neglected, American directors to the attention of a new audience of scholars and students in both Film Studies and American Studies.
ReFocus: The Films of Budd Boetticher
'Rigorous, tightly focused, lucid and forceful - Budd Boetticher's films lend their own distinctive attributes to this outstanding and long-overdue collection of critical essays on the great Hollywood director. While his celebrated Westerns rightly take centre stage, an impressive posse of scholars does full justice to the entirety of Boetticher's varied oeuvre. An indispensable contribution.'
Barry Langford, Royal Holloway, University of London
One of the most important yet overlooked of Hollywood auteurs, Budd Boetticher was responsible for a number of classic films, including his famous 'Ranown' series of westerns starring Randolph Scott. With Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood among influential figures acknowledging Boetticher's influence, and with growing academic interest in his work, Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director's long career, from a range of international scholars.
Looking at acclaimed films like Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) and Comanche Station (1960), as well as at lesser-known works such as Escape in the Fog (1945) and Behind Locked Doors (1948), this book also addresses Boetticher's influential television work on the James Garner series Maverick, and Boetticher's continuing aesthetic influence on contemporary TV classics like Breaking Bad.
Gary D. Rhodes currently serves as Postgraduate Director for Film Studies at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Robert Singer is a Professor of Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Cover image: Comanche Station, 1960, Budd Boetticher © Columbia/The Kobal Collection
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Gary D. Rhodes is Head of Film & Mass Media at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Lugosi (1997), White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (2002), Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (2012) and The Perils of Moviegoing in America (2012). Rhodes is also the writer-director of the documentary films Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Currently he is at work on a history of the American horror film to 1915, as well as a biography of William Fox.
Robert Singer is a Professor of Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in Comparative Literature. His areas of expertise include literary and film interrelations, interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics, and comparative studies. He co-edited Zola and Film (2005), The Brooklyn Film (2003), and he also co-authored the text, The History of Brooklyn's Three Major Performing Arts Institutions (2003).