Romantics and modernists in British cinema / John Orr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orr, John, 1943-2010, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in film.

Edinburgh studies in film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.

Motion pictures.

Art and motion pictures--Great Britain.

Art and motion pictures.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Modernism (Aesthetics)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Romantics & Modernists in British Cinema

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr takes a critical look at the intriguing relationship between romanticism and modernism that has been much neglected in the study of UK cinema and downplayed in the development of Western cinema. Encompassing a broad selection of films, film-makers and debates, this book brings a fresh perspective to how scholars might understand and interrogate the major traditions that have shaped British cinema history. Covering the period between 1929 and the present, this book examines outstanding directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Carol Reed, Nicholas Roeg, Terence Davies and Bill Douglas, and articulates two genres vital to British cinema - the fugitive film and the trauma film - which bridge the gap between romantic and modern forms. Two detailed chapters also assess the powerful impact of major expatriate directors like Losey, Antonioni, Polanski, Kubrick and Skolimowski on modernism in the 1960s and 1970s. Detailed critical readings explore Blackmail, The Lady Vanishes, Black Narcissus, Odd Man Out, The Passionate Friends, The Innocents, Lawrence of Arabia, The Servant, Blow-Up, A Clockwork Orange, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man, Moonlighting, the Bill Douglas trilogy and The Long Day Closes. The book concludes with an analysis of the persistence of romantic and modernist forms in the 21st century in two recent prize-winning features, Control and Hunger.

Contents:

Romantics versus modernists?

1929 : romantics and modernists on the cusp of sound

Running man : Hitchcock's fugitives and The Bourne ultimatum

Running man 2 : Carol Reed and his contemporaries

David Lean : the troubled romantic and the end of empire

Trauma film from romantic to modern : A matter of life and death to Don't look now

Joseph Losey and Michelangelo Antonioni : the expatriate eye and the parallax view

Expatriate eye 2: Stanley Kubrick and Jerzy Skolimowski

Terence Davies and Bill Douglas : the poetics of memory

Into the new country.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-7109-9

1-282-74978-1

9786612749780

0-7486-4230-7

OCLC:

657357417