Terence Davies

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Manchester University Press, 4 sep 2004 - 246 pagina's
Terence Davies has made some of the most innovative, harrowing, and hauntingly lyrical films of the contemporary era. This first ever book-length study of his work combines 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filmic issues of time and memory, identity and selfhood, and the nature of literary adaptation, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Davies himself.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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Framing the director
6
the Terence Davies Trilogy
34
Distant Voices Still Lives
55
The Long
86
Symphony for a new world? The Neon Bible
110
The House of Mirth
136
a new dimension
167
an interview with Terence Davies
201
TERENCE DAVIES FILMOGRAPHY
226
GENERAL FILMOGRAPHY
233
INDEX
241
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Wendy Everett is Senior Lecturer in French and Film at the University of Bath.

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