The British New Wave: A certain tendency?

by B. F. Taylor

Overview

This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. By eschewing the usual tendency to view films like A Kind of Loving and The Entertainer collectively and include them in broader debates about class, gender, and ideology, this book presents a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films. For each film, a re-distribution of existing critical emphasis also allows the problematic relationship between these films and the question of realism to be reconsidered. Drawing upon existing sources and returning to long-standing and unchallenged assumptions about these films, this book offers the opportunity for the reader to return to the British New Wave and decide for themselves where they stand in relation to the films.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847796097
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	07/19/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

B. F. Taylor is Lecturer in Film Studies and Media at the
B. F. Taylor is Lecturer in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin

Table of Contents

1. The British New Wave: A certain tendency?
2. From microscope to telescope: the films of Tony Richardson
3. A cinema of surfaces: Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top
4. Major themes and minor movements: composition and repetition in John Schlesinger’s Billy Liar
5. The critical forest
6. Straight lines and rigid readings: Arthur Seaton and The Arc of Flight
7. Tries and tribulations: bodies, critics, and This Sporting Life
8. Single vessels and twisting ropes
Bibliography