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Romantics and modernists in British cinema [electronic resource] / John Orr.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Orr, John, 1943-2010
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Series:Edinburgh studies in film.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Great Britain > History.
Art and motion pictures > Great Britain.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > Great Britain.
Motion pictures > Aesthetics.
Art and motion pictures.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Motion pictures.
Romanticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of fi gures; Introduction: romantics versus modernists?; CHAPTER 1 1929: romantics and modernists on the cusp of sound; CHAPTER 2 The running man: Hitchcock's fugitives and The Bourne Ultimatum; CHAPTER 3 Running man 2: Carol Reed and his contemporaries; CHAPTER 4 David Lean: the troubled romantic and the end of empire; CHAPTER 5 The trauma film from romantic to modern: A Matter of Life and Death to Don't Look Now; CHAPTER 6 Joseph Losey and Michelangelo Antonioni: the expatriate eye and the parallax view.

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