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This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. Taylor presenting a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films.

Table of Contents

1. The British New Wave: A certain tendency?
2. From microscope to telescope: the films of Tony Richardson
3. A cinema of surfaces: Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top
4. Major themes and minor movements: composition and repetition in John Schlesinger’s Billy Liar
5. The critical forest
6. Straight lines and rigid readings: Arthur Seaton and The Arc of Flight
7. Tries and tribulations: bodies, critics, and This Sporting Life
8. Single vessels and twisting ropes
Bibliography

The British New Wave A Certain Tendency

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 10 January 2012
      ISBN-13 9780719069093
      978-0719069093
      ISBN-10 0719069092

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. Taylor presenting a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films.

      Table of Contents

      1. The British New Wave: A certain tendency?
      2. From microscope to telescope: the films of Tony Richardson
      3. A cinema of surfaces: Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top
      4. Major themes and minor movements: composition and repetition in John Schlesinger’s Billy Liar
      5. The critical forest
      6. Straight lines and rigid readings: Arthur Seaton and The Arc of Flight
      7. Tries and tribulations: bodies, critics, and This Sporting Life
      8. Single vessels and twisting ropes
      Bibliography

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