Terence Davies (British Film-Makers) - Softcover

Everett, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719060621 ISBN 13: 9780719060625

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Terence Davies has made some of the most innovative, harrowing, and hauntingly lyrical films of the contemporary era. This is the first ever book-length study of his work, combining 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filmic issues of time and memory, identity and selfhood, and the nature of literary adaptation, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Davies himself.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.

About this title

About the Author:

Wendy Everett is Senior Lecturer in French and Film at the University of Bath

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719060621
• ISBN 13: 9780719060625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256