Aesthetics and textuality. A passing node: The asphalt jungle / Murray Pomerance -- Adapting addiction: modernist aesthetics in Under the volcano / Douglas McFarland -- Taking Gabriel at his word: narration and Huston's The dead / Robert L. Colson -- On beams and birds: John Huston's adaptation of The maltese falcon / Steven Rybin -- A screenplay-centric analysis of Huston's The man who would be king / Jonathan c. Glance -- History and social context. Proceed with the execution: casting, convention, and the diminishment of Rose in The African queen / Wesley King and Douglas McFarland -- John Huston and postwar Hollywood: The night of the iguana in context / R. Barton Palmer -- This has got to be a masterpiece: John Huston's mangled adaptation of The red badge of courage / Dale M. Pollock -- Shadowboxing in the sun: fighters, their bodies, & their spaces in Fat city / Tom Dorey -- Prizzi's honor: greed and gender in the beginning of the neoliberal era / Betty Kaklamanidou -- Hints of modernism, shades of noir: Huston's Maltese falcon as transitional text / Alan Woolfolk -- Of borders and bandits: The treasure of the Sierra Madre / Camilla Fojas -- The thing behind the mask: period, pacing, and visual style in John Huston's Moby dick / Nathan Ragain -- Theory and psychoanalysis. Huston's Freud: adapting the life of psychoanalysis / David Sigler -- Queer movements: color, performance, and rhythm in John Huston's Reflections in a golden eye / Kyle Stevens -- Flannery O'Connor's symbolic motif and the psychoanalytic objects of John Huston's Wise blood / Wesley King
