Brian Mcfarlane

Twenty British Films

A Guided Tour

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines twenty major British films from a seventy-year time span, offering a lively account of what has made them valuable and provocative over many viewings. It aims both to communicate a critical enthusiasm and to stimulate readers, large numbers of whom will know and value these films, many of them classics of their kind. The author's personal engagement with such titles as The Lady Vanishes, Brief Encounter and Four Weddings and a Funeral will be likely to call up the readers' own responses. Each film focuses a particular strength significant in the history of British cinema. This may, for instance, reflect its strong ties with literature, or represent a high spot in British comedy or some other genre in which it has excelled, or it could be a matter of rescuing a 'B' film from obscurity and critical condescension, or of celebrating a star performance. There will inevitably be something strongly personal about any such choice, and any defence of that choice. These are films that have stayed in the mind, when hundreds of others are forgotten. They speak of a rich national cinema too often undervalued as a poor relation of Hollywood. Celebratory but critically acute, this book is designed for both film students and for those with an interest in and affection for British film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087141
• ISBN-10: 0719087147
• Artikelnr.: 42601937

Autorenporträt

Brian McFarlane is the editor of The Encyclopedia of British Film, and Adjunct Professor at the Swinburne Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Ladies on a train: Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938) 2.
Shaw's Cinderella on screen: Pygmalion (1938) 3. Pulling together for The
Way Ahead (1944) 4. The long-lasting Brief Encounter (1945) 5. Two from the
comfort zone: Great Day (1945) and Temptation Harbour (1947) 6. It Always
Rains on Sunday (1947) - and other things go wrong too 7. The Third Man
(1945) and several more 8. Genevieve (1953): Old cars and 'the other thing'
9. Double bill: Private Information (1952) and Cash on Demand (1963) 10. A
Kind of Loving (1962) - and of living 11. The Servant (1963): things fall
apart 12. Sex, talk, men and Women in Love (1969) 13. Hard men: Get Carter
(1970) 14. From life: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977) 15.
Alice in the real world: Dreamchild (1986) 16. Guests and others at Four
Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 17. Families, for better and worse: Secrets
and Lies (1996) 18. In search of Wonderland (1998) 19. Giving and taking
Last Orders (2002) 20. In your face: In the Loop (2009) Credits Index