The British new wave : a certain tendency? / / B.F. Taylor

• Autore: Taylor B. F
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.430941
• Soggetto topico: Motion picture industry - Great Britain
• Soggetto non controllato: Billy Liar; British New Wave; British films; Kind of Loving; class; film criticism; film interpretation; gender; ideology; realism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 9780719069086; 9780719069086; Copyright; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; 1 The British New Wave:a certain tendency?; 2 From microscope to telescope: the films of Tony Richardson; 3 A cinema of surfaces: Jack Clayton's Room at the Top; 4 Major themes and minormovements: composition and repetition in John Schlesinger's Billy Liar; 5 The critical forest; 6 Straight lines and rigid readings: Arthur Seaton and the arc of flight; 7 Bodies, critics and This Sporting Life; 8 Single vessels and twisting ropes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. By eschewing the usual tendency to view films like A Kind of Loving and The Entertainer collectively and include them in broader debates about class, gender, and ideology, this book presents a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films. For each film, a re-distribution of existing critical emphasis also allows the problematic relationship between these films and the question of realism to be reconsidered. Drawing upon existing sources and returning to
• Titolo autorizzato: The British new wave
• ISBN: 1-78170-121-0; 1-84779-193-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808311803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II