Contains essays on a writer for theater, television, and film, who received two Academy Awards for his screenplays of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Tender Mercies (1983). Section I establishes the biographical, theatrical, and critical contexts for his work, with essays on the influence of his E

Introduction * Chronology * Biographical/Contextual Essays * Remembering Wharton, Texas, Marion Castleberry * Horton Foote's TV Women, Terry Barr * Southern Accents: Horton Foote's Adaptations of William Faulkner, Harper Lee, and Flannery O'Connor, Rebecca Briley * Perspectives on Style/Themes * More Real than Realism: Horton Foote's Impressionism, Tim Wright * To Be Quiet and Listen: The Orphans' Home Cycle and the Music of Charles Ives, Crystal Brian * Subtext as Text: Language and Culture in Horton Foote's Texas Cycle, Laurin Porter * Performing The Death of Papa: A Review, Kimball King, Horton Foote's Film Aesthetic, S. Dixon McDowell * The Signature Theatre Series Texture in Horton Foote's MTalking Pictures, Susan Underwood, Boundaries, the Female Will, and Individuation in Night Seasons, Gerald C. Wood * The Nature of Mystery in The Young Man from Atlanta, Gerald C. Wood * Squeezing the Drama out of Melodrama: Plot and Counterplot in Laura Dennis, Dean Mendell * Bibliography, Index

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