Format:
1 online resource (xi, 315 pages)
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illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781526141569
Content:
A career-length study of Losey's British films, this text incorporates film theory of the past 20 years into an analysis of Losey's work in an accessible format for both students and film enthusiasts
Note:
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
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Introductio -- Joseph Losey and the crisis of historical rupture --Losey in exile : The sleeping tiger (1954), A man on the beach (1955), and The intimate stranger (1956) --A question of background : class and the politics of impulse in Time without pity (1957), The gypsy and the gentleman (1957), Blind date (1959), and The criminal (1960) --Dystopic malevolence and the politics of collusion : Evan Jones's The damned (1961), Eve (1962), King and country (1964), and Modesty Blaise (1966) --Harold Pinter's time-image : The servant (1963), Accident (1967), and The go-between (1971) --Three allegorical fables : Boom! (1968), Secret ceremony (1968), and Figures in a landscape (1970) --Bertolt Brecht and Galileo (1974) --Gender matters : A doll's house (1973), The romantic Englishwoman (1975), and Steaming (1985) --A second exile : Losey in Europe
Language:
English
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