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If....
Mark Sinker
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Description for If....
Paperback. Provocative study of this still-relevant parable of schoolboy revolution Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 88 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 160.
Lindsay Anderson's film if...(1968), starring Malcolm McDowell as a schoolboy who leads a guerilla insurgence, imagines how repression, conformity, and fusty ritual at an English public school could lead to anarchy and bloody revolt. Its title is a sardonic nod to Rudyard Kipling's most famous poem, and its story a radical updating of Kipling's 1899 story "Stalky and Co.," in which prankish rebels are groomed to police the empire. Released at a time of unprecedented student uprisings in Europe and America, if...provided a peculiarly English perspective on the battle between generations - the perennial war of the romantically passionate against ... Read more
Lindsay Anderson's film if...(1968), starring Malcolm McDowell as a schoolboy who leads a guerilla insurgence, imagines how repression, conformity, and fusty ritual at an English public school could lead to anarchy and bloody revolt. Its title is a sardonic nod to Rudyard Kipling's most famous poem, and its story a radical updating of Kipling's 1899 story "Stalky and Co.," in which prankish rebels are groomed to police the empire. Released at a time of unprecedented student uprisings in Europe and America, if...provided a peculiarly English perspective on the battle between generations - the perennial war of the romantically passionate against ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
90
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844570409
SKU
V9781844570409
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About Mark Sinker
Mark Sinker is a contributing editor at Sight and Sound. His Village Voice essay on Iannis Xenakis was included in Da Capo Best Music Writing of 2003.
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