Karel Reisz /
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| Author / Creator: | Gardner, Colin. |
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| Imprint: | Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | x, 310 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | British film makers |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6426124 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Plates
- Series Editors' Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Karel Reisz, 'The last great man in England'
- 2. Reisz the critic
- 3. Free Cinema and the New Left: Momma Don't Allow (1956), We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959) and March to Aldermaston (1959)
- 4. Kitchen sink realism and the birth of the British New Wave: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
- 5. Keeping up with the Truffauts: Night Must Fall (1964)
- 6. Gorilla war: Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
- 7. Life into art - Reisz and the biopic: Isadora (1968) and Sweet Dreams (1985)
- 8. Reisz in Hollywood: deconstructing existentialism and the counterculture in The Gambler (1974) and Dog Soldiers/Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
- 9. A sentimental education: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
- 10. Theatre of the absurd: Arthur Miller's Everybody Wins (1990) and Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words I (2000)
- 11. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Filmography and Theatre Credits
- Bibliography
- Index