Joseph Losey

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Joseph Losey
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Colin Gardner
SeriesBritish Film-Makers
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:328
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreIndividual film directors and film-makers
ISBN/Barcode 9780719067839
ClassificationsDewey:791.430233092
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 March 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality. -- .

Author Biography

Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara