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The Films of Joseph Losey James Palmer

The Films of Joseph Losey By James Palmer

The Films of Joseph Losey by James Palmer


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The Films of Joseph Losey examines the career of the expatriot director through a close analysis of five of his most important and challenging films.

The Films of Joseph Losey Summary

The Films of Joseph Losey by James Palmer

The Films of Joseph Losey examines the career of the expatriot director through a close analysis of five of his most important and challenging films. When his leftist politics made him a target of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities in 1951, the blacklisted Losey left America and continued his film career in England. Concerned mainly with the use and abuse of power inherent in intimate relationships, Losey also examined these issues as manifested in institutions and social classes. The book also examines Losey's close working relationships with playwright/screenwriter Harold Pinter and actor Dirk Bogarde, his experimental form of storytelling, the psychological complexity of characters acting as narrator of their own stories, and the intricate handling of time in the structure of his films. Close studies of King and Country, The Servant, Accident, The Go-Between, and The Romantic Englishwoman confirm Losey's stature as a director of powerful and compelling films of both moral importance and great formal complexity.

The Films of Joseph Losey Reviews

"...one of the better books in the Cambridge Film Classics series...." Philip French, Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

1. Pictures of provocation; 2. What beauty is there, what anguish: King and Country; 3. An extension of reality: The Servant; 4. The inner violence: Accident; 5. The annihilation of time: The Go-Between; 6. The arrival of strangers: The Romantic Englishwoman; 7. No ready-made answers; Notes; Filmography.

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NPB9780521383868
9780521383868
0521383862
The Films of Joseph Losey by James Palmer
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1993-06-25
188
N/A
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