Romantics and modernists in British cinema [electronic resource] / John Orr.
In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema John Orr examines the neglected relationship between romanticism and modernism from 1929 to the present-day. Encompassing a broad selection of films, film-makers and debates, this book brings a new perspective to how scholars might understand and in...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Edinburgh studies in film.
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| Summary: | In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema John Orr examines the neglected relationship between romanticism and modernism from 1929 to the present-day. Encompassing a broad selection of films, film-makers and debates, this book brings a new perspective to how scholars might understand and interrogate the major traditions that have shaped British cinema history. Orr identifies two prominent genres in the British template that often go unrecognised, the fugitive film and the trauma film, whose narratives have bridged the gap between romantic and modern forms. Here Hitchcock, Lean, Powell, Reed and Robert Hamer are identified as key romantics, Roeg, Losey, Antonioni, Kubrick and Skolimowski as later modernists. The book goes on to assess the narrowing divide through the films of Terence Davies and Bill Douglas and concludes by analysing its persistence in the new century, in the prize-winning features Control and Hunger. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 195 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748642304 0748642307 6612749784 9786612749780 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |