BackTerence Davies
(book in English)
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Director > Terence Davies
- Terence Davies
- Publishing Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Collection
- British Film Makers
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 100 pages • 20 €
5.5 x 8.75 inches (14 x 22 cm) - ISBN-10
ISBN-13 - 0-7190-6062-1
978-0-7190-6062-5 - User Ratings
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Book Presentation:
Terence Davies has made some of the most innovative, harrowing, and hauntingly lyrical films of the contemporary era. This is the first ever book-length study of his work, combining detailed analysis of all his films with a persuasive and stimulating investigation of key filmic issues of time and memory, identity and selfhood, and the nature of literary adaptation, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Davies himself.
The book demonstrates that Davies's films successfully subvert traditional division between 'popular' culture and 'art-house' cinema. Gardner explores not only Davies's debt to social realism, the British Documentary movement, and Ealing comedies, but equally to the European auteur tradition and to the great Hollywood musicals and melodramas that continue to inspire him. It provides fresh insight into the centrality of music in Davies's work, and into his conviction that film itself is closer to music than to any other art form.
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