Horton Foote

A Casebook

Gerald C. Wood

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781135636098
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Performing Arts

This study is the first general critical introduction to the writing of Horton Foote, recipient of two Academy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. These original essays survey Foote's career, his work for theater, television, and film, with analysis of Foote's major themes and characteristic style in all three media. The casebook concludes with a list of Foote's produced work, as well as a selective annotated bibliography of primary criticism on the playwright. This book demonstrates the influence of personal biography and Southern literature on Foote's career. The essayists also investigate the writer's contribution to American dramatic realism and independent filmmaking, emphasizing his experimentation with musical structure, dedramatization, and complex subtexts. Foote's disarmingly simple stories, with their radically understated language, are explained in many articles as the product of the subtle influence of the psychological and religious views of the author.

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Index

A

Agee, James 49

Allen, Lewis 139

American Actors Company 1, 2, 7, 24–26, 30–32, 205–7, 217, 221

Anthony, Joseph 25, 53, 146

B

Beresford, Bruce 142, 146, 148

Berghof, Herbert 9, 203–6

Bergman, Ingmar 138

Bettis, Valerie 25, 31, 32

Broderick, Matthew 143

C

Chayefsky, Paddy 36, 37

Chekhov, Anton 2, 6, 49, 71, 82, 83, 99, 103, 110, 129, 141, 142

Chodorow, Nancy 168, 169, 174

Christian Science 20, 97, 134, 170

Coe, Fred 36–39, 43–46, 51, 163, 207–11

Conkle, E. P. 4, 25

D

Degas, Edgar 74

DeMille, Agnes 25, 32

Donehue, Vincent J. 39, 44, 45, 207–11

Duvall, Robert 53, 140, 142, 143, 145, 189, 205, 211–13

E

expressionism 67, 68

F

Faulkner, William 2, 8, 49–56, 58, 63, 112, 133, 208–10, 213, 217, 218, 221

Foote, Albert Horton (father) 15, 16, 22, 89, 163

Foote, Hallie (daughter) 40, 132

Foote, Harriet Gautier (mother) 14, 16, 20, 23, 2...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• General Editor’s Note
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Foote Chronology
• Remembering Wharton, Texas
• Horton Foote’s TV Women: The Richest Part of a Golden Age
• Southern Accents: Horton Foote’s Adaptations of William Faulkner, Harper Lee, and Flannery O’Connor
• More Real Than Realism: Horton Foote’s Impressionism
• “To Be Quiet and Listen”: The Orphans’ Home Cycle and the Music of Charles Ives
• Subtext as Text: Language and Culture in Horton Foote’s Texas Cycle
• Performing The Death of Papa : A Review
• Horton Foote’s Film Aesthetic
• Singing in the Face of Devastation: Texture in Horton Foote’s Talking Pictures
• Boundaries, the Female Will, and Individuation in Night Seasons
• The Nature of Mystery in The Young Man from Atlanta
• Squeezing the Drama out of Melodrama: Plot and Counterplot in Laura Dennis
• A Bibliography of Horton Foote’s Work
• A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Critical Work on Horton Foote
• Contributors
• Index