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Distant Voices, Still Lives

(book in English)

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by Paul Farley

Type: Studies
Subject: One Film > Distant Voices Still Lives
Keywords: Terence Davies
Publishing Date: 2006
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Collection: BFI Modern Classics
Language: English

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Paperback • 96 pages • ? €
5.25 x 7.75 inches (13.5 x 19.5 cm)
Also available as an eBook.

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

1-8445-7139-4
978-1-8445-7139-0

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Book Presentation:
Set in a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles, Terence Davies's film Distant Voices, Still Lives is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood. Paul Farley's study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies's unique visual style, blending the spaces – the short halls, stairways, coal cellars and meter cupboards of northern England – and sounds – the BBC shipping forecast, a pub sing-a-long, the strains of Vaughan Williams and Britten – of memory.

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