📗 Libro en inglés THE FILMS OF JOHN SCHLESINGER

ISBN: 9781783089789 Géneros: Sinópsis: The great historical and economic transformations of the late twentiethcentury city are vividly reflected in John Schlesinger39s oeuvre In films of the early sixties 39A Kind of Loving39 and 39Billy Liar39 the city was imagined as industrial and residential with the characters confronting life on the local and familial level In 39Darling39 39Midnight Cowboy39 and 39Sunday Bloody Sunday39 films made from 1965 to 1971 the city had become cosmopolitan ruled over by international finance and riven by class tensions And in two films of the eighties 39The Falcon and the Snowman39 and 39Madame Sousatzka39 Schlesinger was emphatic in showing the desperation with which youthful characters struggled to come of age not in a local urban environment but in a national and global one The specific economic and political forces driving these urban changes have been extensively treated in the growing body of scholarship on the 39cinematic city39 While these forces form an important backdrop to 39The Films of John Schlesinger39 the aim of the book overall is to demonstrate the centrality of Schlesinger39s aesthetic imagination but not as something divorced from political moral and historical lifeThe distinguished British cinematographer Billy Williams once described Schlesinger as the 39most complete39 director he ever worked with Schlesinger combined a directorial 39eye39 mastery of camera movement framing editing production design etc with a profound literary sense understanding of character and situation He began his career with the awardwinning documentary 39Terminus39 1961 and went on to make a total of seventeen feature films and five films for television Several of his films had a genuinely innovative impact Andy Warhol said that 39Midnight Cowboy39 39took a real drawing card from the underground39 in the way it dealt with 39forbidden subjects39 Pauline Kael described 39Sunday Bloody Sunday39 as 39a novel written on film3