Richard Hutson, Emeritus
Office: 478 Wheeler
Phone: 510-642-2751
Email: rhutson@berkeley.edu
Areas of Interest
American Literature to 1900. 20th-Century American Literature. African American Literature. Critical Theory. Narrative & the Novel.Current Research
I am interested in the history of American literature and culture (popular culture, history, film) from the Civil War to the Great Depression, with special interest in the American realist novel. I am working on a project analyzing writings from the cattle trade after the Civil War (histories, novels, diaries, letters, memoirs, autobiographies, films).Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
John Ford's MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, REPRESENTATIONS 84 (2004), 200-212.
Sermons in Stone: Monument Valley in THE SEARCHERS, in THE SEARCHERS: ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS ON JOHN FORD'S CLASSIC WESTERN, ed. by Arthur M. Eckstein and Peter Lehman. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004, 93-108.
Early Film Versions of THE VIRGINIAN. in READING THE VIRGINIAN IN THE NEW WEST, ed by Melody Graulich and Stephen Tatum. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P.2003, 126-147.
Ecce Cowboy: E. C. Abbott's WE POINTED THEM NORTH, WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 37:2 (Summer 2002), 243-263.
Guthrie's SHANE and American Culture of the Cold War, in FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE BIG SKY: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE FICTION AND FILMS OF A.B.GUTHRIE, JR.ed by William E. Farr and William Wl Bevis,Helena: Montana Historical Society P, 2001,105-118.
JUNIOR BONNER: Old West/New West or the Antinomies of the Father, in SAM PECKINPAH'S WEST: NEW PERSPECTIVES. ed. by Leonard Engel, Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 3003, 151-167.
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