Introduction: “No One Would Know It Was Mine”: Delmer Daves, Modest Auteur

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: “No One Would Know It Was Mine”: Delmer Daves, Modest Auteur 1
7. 1 Don’t Be Too Quick to Dismiss Them: Authorship and the Westerns of Delmer Daves 48
8. 2 Trying to Ameliorate the System from Within: Delmer Daves’ Westerns from the 1950s 63
9. 3 Bent, or Lifted Out by Its Roots: Daves’ Broken Arrow and Drum Beat as Narratives of Conditional Sympathy 80
10. 4 This Room is My Castle of Quiet: The Collaborations of Delmer Daves and Glenn Ford 102
11. 5 Delmer Daves, Authenticity, and Auteur Elements: Celebrating the Ordinary in Cowboy 118
12. 6 Home and the Range: Spencer’s Mountain as Revisionist Family Melodrama 135
13. 7 Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma: Aesthetics, Reception, and Cultural Significance 149
14. 8 Changing Societies: The Red House, The Hanging Tree, Spencer’s Mountain, and Post-war America 166
15. 9 Partial Rehabilitation: Task Force and the Case of Billy Mitchell 184
16. 10 “This Is Where He Brought Me: 10,000 Acres of Nothing!”: The Femme Fatale and other Film Noir Tropes in Delmer Daves’ Jubal 199
17. Index 222