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Paperback. 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. Series: British Film Makers. Num Pages: 328 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
British Film-Makers
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719067839
SKU
V9780719067839
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About Colin Gardner
Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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