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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, B. F. (Barnaby F.), author.

Series:

Manchester Film Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New wave films--Great Britain--History and criticism.

New wave films.

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

1-78170-121-0

1-84779-193-X

OCLC:

818847203