Chapter 7. Blackboard Jungle (1955): A Cinematic Education

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgments xii
6. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 2. The Brick Foxhole (1945): Richard Brooks’s American Vision 14
8. Chapter 3. The Muted Voices of Conscience and Responsibility in Crisis (1950) 31
9. Chapter 4. Deadline—U.S.A. (1952): A Fox Film of Fact 44
10. Chapter 5. “Man Against the Times”: Conformity, Anti-Statism, and the “Unknown” Korean War in Battle Circus (1953) 63
11. Chapter 6. Captured Interiors: Female Performances in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) and The Happy Ending (1969) 75
12. Chapter 7. Blackboard Jungle (1955): A Cinematic Education 90
13. Chapter 8. Hunting and the Economics of Adaptation: The Last Hunt (1956) and The Professionals (1966) 107
14. Chapter 9. The Curse of Money: Negotiating Marriage in The Catered Affair (1956) 123
15. Chapter 10. Adapting Modernism: Richard Brooks and The Brothers Karamazov (1958) 138
16. Chapter 11. Haunted: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) 152
17. Chapter 12. A Bite of Salvation 166
18. Chapter 13. “Monstrous Cinemascope”: Richard Brooks Adapts Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) 183
19. Chapter 14. Adapting the Unadaptables: Lord Jim (1965) 200
20. Chapter 15. Adaptation as Mutation: In Cold Blood (1967) 215
21. Chapter 16. Looking for Mr. Good Guy: Anatomizing ’70s Fracture and Fragmentation 231
22. Chapter 17. Failing to Locate Wrong is Right (1982) and What that Reveals about Cinematic Reality 246
23. Bibliography 261
24. Index 272