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Karel Reisz

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by Colin Gardner

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Karel Reisz
Keywords: Karel Reisz
Publishing Date: 2005
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Collection: British Film Makers
Language: English

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Paperback • 316 pages • 24 €
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-7190-8566-7
978-0-7190-8566-6

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Czech-born refugee Karel Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures in post-war British cinema. Along with Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson, Reisz was a founder member of the independent Free Cinema 'movement' which attacked the parochial middle-class values of home-grown studio product with a vigorous commitment to everyday working-class subject matter and a poetically charged film style. This was immediately recognisable in the aesthetic of the international success of Reisz's first feature, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960).

As the import of Free Cinema rapidly dissipated during the 'Swinging London' era, Reisz confronted the changing cultural mores of the 1960s and 1970s with a series of ambivalent films that critique the anarchic free spirit of the times, including Morgan (1966), Isadora (1968), The Gambler (1974) and Dog Soldiers (1978).

Drawing on Reisz's early film criticism for Sequence and Sight and Sound, as well as interdisciplinary methodologies, this first career-length study explores Reisz's personal brand of character-based realism, offering the spectator a privileged insight into an artist's developing response to subjective and historical dislocation. The book should thus prove invaluable to film scholars, cultural historians and the Reisz aficionado.

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press

See the complete filmography of Karel Reisz on the website: IMDB ...

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