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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality : ESFI
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- Introduction: romantics versus modernists?
- 1. 1929: romantics and modernists on the cusp of sound
- 2. The running man: Hitchcock’s fugitives and The Bourne Ultimatum
- 3. Running man 2: Carol Reed and his contemporaries
- 4. David Lean: the troubled romantic and the end of empire
- 5. The trauma film from romantic to modern: A Matter of Life and Death to Don’t Look Now
- 6. Joseph Losey and Michelangelo Antonioni: the expatriate eye and the parallax view
- 7. Expatriate eye 2: Stanley Kubrick and Jerzy Skolimowski
- 8. Terence Davies and Bill Douglas: the poetics of memory
- 9. Conclusion: into the new century
- Select bibliography
- Index