ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves
Matthew Carter and Andrew Nelson
Abstract
New essays on the life and work of veteran Hollywood filmmaker Delmer Daves. From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of Villa Fiorita (1965), among many other titles, few filmmakers created as unique a body of work in the United States as Delmer Daves (1904-1977), but few filmmakers have been as critically overlooked in existing scholarly literature. Daves is often regarded as an embodiment of the self-effacing craftsmanship of classical and post-War Hollywood, which helps explain his relative neglect by film critics and scholars. As the first study of Daves’s career, this collection in th ... More
New essays on the life and work of veteran Hollywood filmmaker Delmer Daves. From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of Villa Fiorita (1965), among many other titles, few filmmakers created as unique a body of work in the United States as Delmer Daves (1904-1977), but few filmmakers have been as critically overlooked in existing scholarly literature. Daves is often regarded as an embodiment of the self-effacing craftsmanship of classical and post-War Hollywood, which helps explain his relative neglect by film critics and scholars. As the first study of Daves’s career, this collection in the ReFocus series on neglected American filmmakers seeks to deepen our understanding of the filmmaker and problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent but conventional, even naïve, studio man.
Keywords:
Delmer Daves,
Hollywood,
Auteur,
Western genre,
American cinema
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474403016 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2017 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474403016.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Matthew Carter, editor
Manchester Metropolitan University
Andrew Nelson, editor
Montana State University
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