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Terence Davies

(book in English)

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by Michael Koresky

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Terence Davies

Keywords

Terence Davies

Publishing Date

2014

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Collection

Contemporary Film Directors

Language

English

Dimensions

Physical desc.

Paperback • 184 pages • 22 €
5.5 x 8.25 inches (14 x 21 cm)
Also available as an eBook.

ISBN

978-0-252-08021-0

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Book Presentation:
Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His idiosyncratic and unorthodox narrative films defy easy categorization, as their seeming existence within realism and personal memory cinema is undermined by an abstractness that makes the way he lays bare personal pain come across as distant, even alien.

Film critic Michael Koresky explores the unique emotional tenor of Davies's work by focusing on four paradoxes within the director's œuvre: films that are autobiographical yet fictional; melancholy yet elating; conservative in tone and theme yet radically constructed; and obsessed with the passing of time yet frozen in time and space. Through these contradictions, the films' intricate designs reveal a cumulative, deeply personal meditation on the self. Koresky also analyzes how Davies's ongoing negotiation of--and struggle with--questions of identity related to his past and his homosexuality imbue the details and jarring juxtapositions in his films with a queer sensibility, which is too often overlooked due to the complexity of Davies's work and his unfashionable ambivalence toward his own sexual orientation.

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Terence Davies (2012)

Cinéaste de l'intime

by Francis Rousselet

Subject: Director > Terence Davies

Terence Davies (2005)

by Wendy Everett
(in English)

Subject: Director > Terence Davies

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The House of Mirth (2014)

Edith Wharton, Terence Davies

by Marie-Claude Perrin-Chenour and Gilles Chamerois

Subject: One Film > The House of Mirth

Distant Voices, Still Lives (2006)

by Paul Farley
(in English)

Subject: One Film > Distant Voices Still Lives

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