The films of John Schlesinger /

The city, with its manifold distractions and violence, its invitation to intoxication and dream, had long served to represent the experience of modernity in works of art at the time John Schlesinger made his acclaimed urban documentary ‘Terminus’ in 1961. To be a reader of the city was to be a reade...

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Hlavní autor: Brown, Julia Prewitt (Autor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: London : Anthem Press, 2019
Vydání:First published
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On-line přístup:Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU
Příbuzné jednotky:Tištěná verze:: Films of John Schlesinger
Obsah:
  • Part I, Coming of Age
  • 1, Leading up to Midnight Cowboy: Kind of Loving, Billy Liar and Darling
  • 2, Schlesinger's Bildungsfilm: Midnight Cowboy and the Problem of Youth
  • 3, Human Emergence in a Commercial Age: Madame Sousatzka
  • Part II, Identity and Nation
  • 4, "An Uncomfortable Truth": The Day of the Locust
  • 5, Box Office Failure: Honky Tonk Freeway and the Risks of Embarrassing the United States
  • 6, An Eye for an I: Identity and Nation in the Films of the Reagan- Thatcher Years (Yanks, An Englishman Abroad, The Falcon and the Snowman, A Question Of Attribution)
  • Part III, The Uses of the Past
  • 7, History Hollywood-Style: Far from the Madding Crowd
  • 8, The Resonance of Art: Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • Epilogue: Refusal to Mourn: Cold Comfort Farm