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R. Barton Palmer
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he also directs the film studies program. He is the author, editor, or general editor of more than forty volumes on various literary and cinematic subjects. Among his recent books are (with Robert Bray) Hollywood’s Tennessee: the Williams Films and Postwar America and To Kill a Mockingbird: The Relationship between the Text and the Film. He has edited (with Steven Sanders) The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick, Larger than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s, and, forthcoming, (with David Boyd) Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor. Palmer and Murray Pomerance have recently edited A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (forthcoming this summer, 2011, from Rutgers University Press).