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Book Synopsis
A personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director; Jack Clayton.

Table of Contents

List of plates
Series Editor's foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: lonely passions – the cinema of Jack Clayton
2. Early career: Naples is a Battlefield (1944); The Bespoke Overcoat (1955)
3. Sex, realism and Yorkshire pudding: Room at the Top (1959)
4. Pearl of ambiguity: The Innocents (1961)
5. Woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown: The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
6. Forbidden games: Our Mother's House (1967)
7. Clayton in America: The Great Gatsby (1974); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
8. God's lonely woman: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
9. Death makes a call: Memento Mori (1992)
10. Unfinished business: the unrealised projects of Jack Clayton
11. Conclusion
Appendices: Some writings of Jack Clayton
Filmography
Select bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/28/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719055058, 978-0719055058
      ISBN10: 0719055059

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director; Jack Clayton.

      Table of Contents

      List of plates
      Series Editor's foreword
      Acknowledgements
      1. Introduction: lonely passions – the cinema of Jack Clayton
      2. Early career: Naples is a Battlefield (1944); The Bespoke Overcoat (1955)
      3. Sex, realism and Yorkshire pudding: Room at the Top (1959)
      4. Pearl of ambiguity: The Innocents (1961)
      5. Woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown: The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
      6. Forbidden games: Our Mother's House (1967)
      7. Clayton in America: The Great Gatsby (1974); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
      8. God's lonely woman: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
      9. Death makes a call: Memento Mori (1992)
      10. Unfinished business: the unrealised projects of Jack Clayton
      11. Conclusion
      Appendices: Some writings of Jack Clayton
      Filmography
      Select bibliography
      Index

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