{"id":961,"date":"2017-08-24T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=961"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:49:27","slug":"the-films-of-delmer-daves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"The Films of Delmer Daves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9781474403016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-962 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9781474403016-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9781474403016-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/9781474403016.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves, <\/strong><strong>Matthew Carter &amp;<\/strong> <strong>Andrew Patrick Nelson<\/strong><strong>, eds <\/strong>The American director Delmer Daves has never enjoyed the critical attention lavished on other Hollywood professionals such as Don Siegel. Finally, however, in this collection of insightful new essays on the life and work of the veteran Hollywood filmmaker, he is granted his critical due. This collection of pieces (covering the director&#8217;s entire career, including his shamelessly enjoyable \u2018women\u2019s pictures\u2019 such as <em>A Summer Place<\/em> and <em>Parrish<\/em>) aims to enrich both our appreciation of the director&#8217;s work and changing perceptions of him as simple studio craftsman. Carter and Nelson are unlikely to persuade the reader that Daves is an artist on the level of, say, Anthony Mann (who also worked in the Western genre, to much greater effect), but the perceptive and provocative case studies of such film as <em>Broken Arrow <\/em>(1950), <em>3:10 to Yuma <\/em>(1957) and <em>Destination Tokyo <\/em>(1943) produce much fascinating analysis here. ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves, Edited by Matthew Carter, Manchester Metropolitan University and Andrew Patrick Nelson, Montana State University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves, Matthew Carter &amp; Andrew Patrick Nelson, eds The American director Delmer Daves has never enjoyed the critical attention lavished on other Hollywood professionals such as Don Siegel. Finally, however, in this collection of insightful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}