Hud
$36.65
- Paperback
152 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2026
Summary
A critical analysis of Martin Ritt’s Hud (1963), the film adaptation of the novel by Larry McMurtry, starring Paul Newman and with James Wong Howe’s Oscar-winning cinematography, from production through the film’s complicated reception.
Martin Ritt’s 1963 classic Hud is a quintessential Western. Update horses with pickup trucks and a pink Cadillac; barroom shootouts and fistfights with family drama and dysfunction; Indians, rustlers, and corrupt sheriffs with a deadl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780826370303 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0826370306 |
| Author: | James G. Mayo |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Imprint: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 93g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Reel West Series |
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“James Mayo tells the compelling story of the making of Hud with great verve and insight.” - W. K. Stratton, author of The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, A Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film
About The Author
James G. Mayo
James Mayo is an associate professor of English at Jackson State Community College in Jackson, Tennessee. He served for five years as president of the Carson McCullers Society and is a cofounder of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians. He received a bachelors degree from Middle Tennessee State University and a masters degree from the University of Idaho.
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