Research Catalog

Title

Horton Foote / editor, Robert W. Haynes, Texas A&M International University, Laredo.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Haynes, Robert W. (Robert William), 1951-

Description

ix, 276 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• American playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote is most notably known for his 1962 adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, the screenplay for the 1983 film, Tender Mercies, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1995 play, The Young Man from Atlanta. This volume examines these works and more, such as the nine-play Orphans' Home cycle, based on Foote's own childhood. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes. Finally, the volume's appendixes offer a section of useful reference resources: a chronology of the author's life, a complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index. - Publisher.
• American playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote is best known for his 1962 adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, the screenplay for the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Young Man From Atlanta. Critical essays in this volume examine these works and other dramas, including the nine-play Orphans' Home Cycle, which is based on Foote's own family history. -- Amazon

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subject

• Foote, Horton > Criticism and interpretation
• American drama > 20th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261and index.

Source of Description (note)

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Contents

About this volume / Robert W. Haynes -- On Appreciating Horton Foote / Robert W. Haynes -- Biography of Horton Foote / Robert W. Haynes -- All Lives Matter: African Americans in Horton Foote's South / Rebecca Luttrell Briley -- Horton Foote's Critical Reputation / Gerald C. Wood -- Between South and West: Placing "The Young Man From Atlanta" / Robert Donahoo -- Two Cultural Paradigms of Endurance: A Comparative Study of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful and Lu Xun's "Blessing" / Xueying Wang -- Horton Foote: A Not-So Bitter Southerner / Terry Barr -- "I always wanted a boy the town could be proud of": Issues of Conformity and Community in Horton Foote's Dual Versions of The Chase / Roy J. Gonzáles Jr. -- The Orphans' Home Cycle and the Intuition of the Soul / Crystal Brian -- A Dramatist's Archive: An Overview of the Horton Foote Papers at DeGolyer Library / Cynthia Franco -- Monuments, Memory, and Self-Location: Biographical Resources in Horton Foote's Drama / Robert W. Haynes -- "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them": Scout and Jem Finch from Novel to Film / Jan Whitt -- Horton Foote, the Evolution of a Film Script, and the Art of Collaboration in Tender Mercies / Gerald C. Wood -- What the Old Folks Say: Repetition, Circular Thinking, and Magical Thinking in Three Plays by Horton Foote / Elizabeth Fifer -- The Sane Face of Texas: Pursuing the Decent Life in Horton Foote's Films / Robert W. Haynes -- Chronology of Horton Foote's Life -- Works by Horton Foote -- Bibliography -- About the Editor -- Contributors.

Call Number

JFE 16-3434

ISBN

• 9781619258402
• 1619258404

OCLC

940558859

Title

Horton Foote / editor, Robert W. Haynes, Texas A&M International University, Laredo.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261and index.

Note

Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Added Author

Haynes, Robert W. (Robert William), 1951- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3434