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ISBN-13: | 9780748649372 |
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Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Publication date: | 02/20/2012 |
Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 208 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of figures ix
Introduction: romantics versus modernists? 1
1 1929: romantics and modernists on the cusp of sound 5
The documentary legacy: Drifters 7
The forging of the fugitive film: A Cottage on Dartmoor 11
Transgressing triangles: Piccadilly and The Manxman 14
Blackmail'and transition 18
Constructive and deconstructive: Number Seventeen 23
2 The running man: Hitchcock's fugitives and The Bourne Ultimatum 25
Jason's Waterloo: Hitchcock, Greengrass and deepest fears 25
The fugitive kind: pre-war, wartime, post-war 28
British Hitchcock: from romance thriller to post-romantic fable 32
The poetics of treachery: Dickinson and Cavalcanti 34
The triumph of the short film: Bon Voyage and Aventure malgacbe 37
Post-romantic fugitives: Stage Fright and Frenzy 40
Epilogue: the Frenzy murders 42
3 Running man 2: Carol Reed and his contemporaries 44
Fable versus romance: The Third Man and They Made Me a Fugitive 54
Reed and subterfuge: The Man Between and Our Man in Havana 57
Reed's successors 62
4 David Lean: the troubled romantic and the end of empire 64
Forgotten Lean: the Ann Todd trilogy 64
Madeleine: the perverse unveiled 70
The Sound Barrier, the faltering sublime and the end of empire 77
Enthusiast or fanatic? The paradox of Lean's 'Lawrence' 79
5 'The trauma film from romantic to modern: A Matter of Life and Death to Don't Look Now 86
Prelude: Thorold Dickinson and Anton Walbrook 88
Juxtaposition: A Matter of Life and Death and Dead of Night 89
Powellian trauma: Black Narcissus, The Small Back Room, Peeping Tom 94
Female 'madness' and modernism: The Innocents and Repulsion 101
The trauma double bill: Don't Look Now and The Wicker Man 108
The neo-romantic turn and death in Venice: Don't Look Now 110
Romantic symbol and modernist edit 112
6 Joseph Losey and Michelangelo Antonioni: the expatriate eye and the parallax view 115
Losey and Pinter: the modernist moment in The Servant and Accident 119
Coda: Providence as Resnais's riposte to Losey 128
Antonioni's parallax view: Blow- Up and The Passenger 129
What's in a title? The Passenger or Profession: Reporter 135
Coda: the native eye in Radio On 139
7 Expatriate eye 2: Stanley Kubrick and Jerzy Skolimowski 141
Freedom and fate: Barry Lyndon 148
Skolimowski and running water: or, Deep End and Cul-de-Sac 152
Rise and fall: The Shout, Moonlighting, Success is the Best Revenge 156
Bringing it all back home: Moonlighting and Success is the Best Revenge 159
8 Terence Davies and Bill Douglas: the poetics of memory 164
Mimetic modernism and family mysteries: the Douglas trilogy 167
Davies: the romantic imagist and the poetry of memory 171
Floating through space and time: The Long Day Closes 173
The past as present: The House of Mirth and The Wings of the Dove 177
9 Conclusion: into the new century 180
Select bibliography 185
Index 189