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ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks

  • Edited by: R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023
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ReFocus: The American Directors Series
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The first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook’s literariness"

  • Offers a critical assessment by well-known film scholars
  • Explores Brooks’s engagement with intellectual and cultural trends
  • Discusses Brooks’s engagement with genres

ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America’s most important and successful directors, with an emphasis on the "literary" aspects of his career, including his work as a screenwriter and adaptor of such modern classics as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lord Jim, and The Brothers Karamazov.

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