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Terence Davies

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Terence Davies
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Wendy Everett
SeriesBritish Film-Makers
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreIndividual film directors and film-makers
ISBN/Barcode 9780719060625
ClassificationsDewey:791.430233092
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 11 March 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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filmic issues of time and memory, identity and selfhood, and the nature of literary adaptation, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Davies himself.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. -- .

Author Biography

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