ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves

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ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves is written by Matthew Carter and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474413706 (ISBN 10) and 9781474413701 (ISBN 13).

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 naAve studio man.