Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter

by Richard Dyer
Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter

by Richard Dyer

Paperback(2nd ed. 2015)

$17.99 
  • SHIP THIS ITEM
    Qualifies for Free Shipping
  • PICK UP IN STORE
    Check Availability at Nearby Stores

Related collections and offers


Overview

Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema – a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train. Though it's a film made by men, it is the woman's voice we hear recounting the story of a small-town love affair and her renunciation of it.

In his lucid analysis of the film, Richard Dyer explores how its depiction of powerful feelings kept under wraps is a definitive example of a particularly English style of emotional restraint, but also how it spoke to a gay audience for whom this subject – forbidden love between ordinary people – had a special resonance.

This reissued edition features original cover artwork by Rania Moudaress and a substantial new foreword that revisits the film and recent readings of it, covering its enduring legacy and adaptation for theatre and television.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781844578771
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 11/25/2015
Series: BFI Film Classics Series
Edition description: 2nd ed. 2015
Pages: 80
Sales rank: 960,022
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King's College, London, and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has been honoured by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and Turku and Yale Universities, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Stars (1979), White (1997), The Culture of Queers (2002), Nino Rota (BFI, 2010) and In the Space of a Song (2012), and he is the author of BFI Film Classics on 'Se7en' (1999), Brief Encounter (2002, 2015) and La Dolce Vita (2017).

Table of Contents

Foreword .- 1. A Lovely Film .- 2. Seven Thursdays .- 3. That Feminine Angle .- 4. So English .- Notes .- Credits .- Bibliography.
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews