Mr Steve Waters

A Life in 16 Films

How Cinema Made a Playwright

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Produktbeschreibung

Steve Waters examines how the very idea of film has defined him as a playwright and a person in this book. Through the the lens of cinema, it provides a cultural and political snapshot of life in Britain from the 2nd part of the 20th century up to the present day. The films spanning almost a century, starting with The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) and moving most recently to Dark Waters (2019), each chapter examines aspects of Waters's journey from his working-class Midlands upbringing to working in professional theatre to living through the Covid epidemic, through the prism of a particular film. From The Wizard of Oz to Code Unknown, from sci-fi to documentary, from queer cinema to world cinema, this honest, comic book offers a view of film as a way of thinking about how we live. In doing so, it illuminates culture and politics in the UK over half a century and provides an intimate insight into drama and writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9781350205239
• ISBN-10: 1350205230
• Artikelnr.: 60889264

Autorenporträt

Steve Waters

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Dark Waters (2019, Todd Haynes)
Watching film in an age of Covid
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
Working-class cinema-going in the Midlands; children and adult film; the
Western; film as an embodiment of maleness
Logan's Run (1976, Michael Anderson)
Rural England and the appeal of horror and sci-fi; rural v city; class
conflict
Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979, Werner Herzog)
Grammar school in the 80s; uncinematic nature of provincial Britain;
discovery of art and European film
Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Coming of age during Thatcher and punk; film and cycling; the rise of
Channel 4 as a vector for film; second cold war; Solaris v Apocalypse Now
Shoah (1985, Claude Lanzmann)
Kibbutz Dalia, Israel; Film and internationalism; film and the Holocaust;
travels in the Middle East; confirmation bias
Vagabond (1985, Agnès Varda)
Film and intellectualism at Oxford University; feminist and queer film;
making film
Comrades (1986, Bill Douglas)
Film, work and radical politics; Communist and the city of Bristol; theatre
and radical film-making; John Akomfrah and Julian Isaac
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929, Arnold Fanck and GW Pabst)
Becoming a teacher; film history and education; falling in love through
film
Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)
Studying with playwrights Sarah Kane and David Edgar; Reservoir Dogs and
Blasted; caught between film and theatre; influence of David Mamet, Quentin
Tarantino and Sarah Kane
Winter Light (1963, Ingmar Bergman)
Film, marriage and faith; Bergman and Bresson; film as ritual; becoming a
theatre director; becoming a playwright
Code Unknown (2001, Michael Haneke)
Film and London; residential playwright at Hampstead Theatre; writing and
multi-culturalism; Haneke's pessimism versus 'Cool Britannia'
The Wind Will Carry Us (2000, Abbas Kiarostami)
After 9/11; film and the War on Terror; film and having children; writing
World music; influence of Iranian film
An Inconvenient Truth (2006, Davis Guggenheim)
Film and ecology; climate change activism and writing The Contingency Plan;
adapting theatre to film
Hell or High Water (2016, David Mackenzie)
Film and precarity; parents' death; illness; end of cinema; growth of
populism
Afterword - Girlhood (2019, Céline Sciamma)
Watching films with my daughter
Index