Distant Voices Still Lives

Author : Paul Farley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715355
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Voices, Still Lives written by Paul Farley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 'a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles', Terence Davies' film 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood. Paul Farley's study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies' unique visual style, blending the spaces - the 'short halls, stairways, coal cellars and meter cupboards of northern England' - and sounds - the BBC shipping forecast, a pub sing-a-long, the strains of Vaughan Williams and Britten - of memory.

Author : Terence Davies
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distant Voices, Still Lives written by Terence Davies and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Distant Voices, Still Lives written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the family memories of Davis, this film is an intimate portrait of working class life in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool. Focusing on the experiences of his mother, sisters and brother whose lives are thwarted by their brutal, sadistic father.

Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904764717
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fires Were Started written by Lester D. Friedman and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fires Were Started is a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen and Manthia Diawara. The book discuss prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg and Stephen Frears, it also explores some lesser known but equally important territory such as the work of Black British filmmakers, the Leeds Animation Workshop and Channel 4's Film on Four. Films discussed include Distant Voices, Still Lives, My Beautiful Launderette, Chariots of Fire and Drowning by Numbers.

Author : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904764380
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Britain and Ireland written by Brian McFarlane and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, concise but wide-ranging introduction to and overview of British and Irish cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from the region. Films under discussion include 'Pink String and Sealing Wax', 'Room at the Top', 'The Italian Job', 'Orlando', and 'Sweet Sixteen'.

Author : Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209707
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisioning History written by Robert A. Rosenstone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revisioning History thirteen historians from around the world look at the historical film on its own terms, not as it compares to written history but as a unique way of recounting the past. How does film construct a historical world? What are the rules, codes, and strategies by which it brings the past to life? What does that historical construction mean to us? In grappling with these questions, each contributor looks at an example of New History cinema. Different from Hollywood costume dramas or documentary films, these films are serious efforts to come to grips with the past; they have often grown out of nations engaged in an intense quest for historical connections, such as India, Cuba, Japan, and Germany. The volume begins with an introduction by Robert Rosenstone. Part I, "Contesting History," comprises essays by Geoff Eley (on the film Distant Voices, Still Lives), Nicholas B. Dirks (The Home and the World), Thomas Kierstead and Deidre Lynch (Eijanaika), and Pierre Sorlin (Night of the Shooting Stars). Contributing to Part II, "Visioning History," are Michael S. Roth (Hiroshima Mon Amour), John Mraz (Memories of Underdevelopment), Min Soo Kang (The Moderns) and Clayton R. Koppes (Radio Bikini). Part III, "Revisioning History" contains essays by Denise J. Youngblood (Repentance), Rudy Koshar (Hitler: A Film from Germany), Rosenstone (Walker), Sumiko Higashi (Walker and Mississippi Burning), and Daniel Sipe (From the Pole to the Equator).

Author : Wendy Everett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719060625
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terence Davies written by Wendy Everett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Davies has made some of the most innovative, harrowing, and hauntingly lyrical films of the contemporary era. This study of his work combines detailed analysis of all his films with an investigation of key filmic issues of time and memory, identity and selfhood, and the nature of literary adaptation.

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Total Pages : 65 pages
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Download or read book Distant Voices, Still Lives written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benedict Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192894064
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema written by Benedict Morrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is film criticism for? This book aims to answer this question It argues that art cinema's political effect is the result of indeterminacy and not character-centric meaning.

Author : James Tweedie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190873892
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Pictures, Still Lives written by James Tweedie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990s-the rise of the heritage industry, a global museum-building boom, and a cinematic fascination with costume dramas and literary adaptations-it explores the work of artists and philosophers who complicated the usual association between tradition and the past or modernity and the future. Author James Tweedie retraces the "archaeomodern turn" in films and theory that framed the past as a repository of abandoned but potentially transformative experiments. He examines late twentieth-century filmmakers who were inspired by old media, especially painting, and often viewed those art forms as portals to the modern past. In detailed discussions of Alain Cavalier, Terence Davies, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Agnès Varda, and other key directors, the book concentrates on films that fill the screen with a succession of tableaux vivants, still lifes, illuminated manuscripts, and landscapes. It also considers three key figures-Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, and Serge Daney-who grappled with the late twentieth century's characteristic concerns, including history, memory, and belatedness. It reframes their theoretical work on film as a mourning play for past revolutions and a means of reviving the possibilities of the modern age (and its paradigmatic medium, cinema) during periods of political and cultural retrenchment. Looking at cinema and the century in the rear-view mirror, the book highlights the unrealized potential visible in the history of film, as well as the cinematic phantoms that remain in the digital age.