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Masculinity on the Front: John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage (1951) Revisited
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 42, Number 2, Winter 2003
- pp. 57-80
- 10.1353/cj.2003.0001
- Article
- Additional Information
John Huston's Red Badge of Courage (1951) is a marvelous example of literary capital under the strain of Cold War politics, the changing face of MGM, and a maverick director. Archival material reproduced and explicated in this essay suggests what might have been.