Jack Clayton / Neil Sinyard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinyard, Neil.

Series:

British film makers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clayton, Jack, 1921-1995.

Clayton, Jack.

Motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

Franç ois Truffaut called "The Innocents" " the best English film after "Hitchcock Goes to America." " Tennessee Williams said "The Great Gatsby" was " a film whose artistry even surpassed the original novel." The maker of both films was Jack Clayton, one of the greatest English directors of the post-war era, best remembered for the trail-blazing "Room at the Top." This is the first full-length critical study of Clayton's work. Neil Sinyard draws on the director's private papers for a fresh analysis of the individual films. The book contains new material on Clayton's many unrealized projects and includes his previously unpublished short story "The Enchantment" --as poignant and revealing as the films themselves.

Contents:

1 Introduction: lonely passions

the cinema of Jack Clayton 1

2 Early career: Naples is a Battlefield (1944); The Bespoke Overcoat (1955) 20

3 Sex, realism and Yorkshire pudding: Room at the Top (1959) 37

4 Pearl of ambiguity: The Innocents (1961) 81

5 Woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown: The Pumpkin Eater (1964) 109

6 Forbidden games: Our Mother's House (1967) 130

7 Clayton in America: The Great Gatsby (1974); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) 144

8 God's lonely woman: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) 174

9 Death makes a call: Memento Mori (1992) 190

10 Unfinished business: the unrealised projects of Jack Clayton 206

Appendices Some Writings of Jack Clayton

'You Can't Declare Peace' (1944-45) 229

'On the Prevention of War' (1946) 234

The Queen interview (1960) 237

'Abstract on Vision' (1977) 239

Short story: 'The Enchantment' (1985) 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719055040

0719055059

OCLC:

46759628