John Huston as Adaptor () von Douglas McFarland

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Editors’ Introduction: Huston as Reader
Douglas McFarland and Wesley King

Introduction: Adapted by John Huston
Thomas Leitch

Part I. Aesthetics and Textuality

1. A Passing Node:The Asphalt Jungle
Murray Pomerance

2. Adapting Addiction: Modernist Aesthetics inUnder the Volcano
Douglas McFarland

3. Taking Gabriel at His Word: Narration and Huston’sThe Dead
Robert L. Colson

4. On Beams and Birds: John Huston’s Adaptation ofThe Maltese Falcon
Steven Rybin

5. A Screenplay-centric Analysis of Huston’sThe Man Who Would Be King
Jonathan C. Glance

Part II. History and Social Context

6. “Proceed with the Execution”: Casting, Convention, and the Diminishment of Rose inThe African Queen
Wesley King and Douglas McFarland

7. John Huston and Postwar Hollywood:The Night of the Iguana in Context
R. Barton Palmer

8. “This Has Got to Be a Masterpiece”: John Huston’s Mangled Adaptation ofThe Red Badge of Courage
Dale M. Pollock

9. Shadowboxing in the Sun: Fighters, Their Bodies, and Their Spaces inFat City
Tom Dorey

10.Prizzi’s Honor: Greed and Gender in the Beginning of the Neoliberal Era
Betty Kaklamanidou

11. Hints of Modernism, Shades of Noir: Huston’sMaltese Falcon as Transitional Text
Alan Woolfolk

12. Of Borders and Bandits:The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Camilla Fojas

13. “The Thing behind the Mask”: Period, Pacing, and Visual Style in John Huston’sMoby Dick
Nathan Ragain

Part III. Theory and Psychoanalysis

14. Huston’sFreud: Adapting the Life of Psychoanalysis
David Sigler

15. Queer Movements: Color, Performance, and Rhythm in John Huston’sReflections in a Golden Eye
Kyle Stevens

16. Flannery O’Connor’s Symbolic Motif and the Psychoanalytic Objects of John Huston’sWise Blood
Wesley King

Contributors
Index