ReFocus

New essays on the life and work of veteran Hollywood filmmaker Delmer Daves

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.

Key Features

• The first and only detailed study of this important American screenwriter, producer and director
• An international collection of original essays examining Daves’s films, including Broken Arrow, 3:10 to Yuma, Task Force and Spencer’s Mountain

Contributors

• Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
• Matthew Carter, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Adrian Danks, RMIT University
• Andrew Howe, La Sierra University
• Józef Jaskulski, University of Warsaw
• Sue Matheson, University College of the North in Manitoba
• Andrew Patrick Nelson, Montana State University
• Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton
• Joseph Pomp, Harvard University
• John White, Anglia Ruskin University