Romantics and modernists in British cinema / 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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| Series: | Edinburgh studies in film.
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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.