Terence Davies (British Film Makers) ebook

by Wendy Everett

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Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter, film director, novelist and actor. He is one of the most acclaimed British filmmakers of the present. He is best known as the writer and director of Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992) as well the collage film Of Time and the City (2008). Davies was born in Kensington, Liverpool, Lancashire, the youngest of ten children of working-class Catholic parents.

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History & Criticism Film Books. Terence Davies (British Film Makers). Manchester University Press. This button opens a dialog that displays additional images for this product with the option to zoom in or out. Tell us if something is incorrect. ISBN 9780719060625 (978-0-7190-6062-5) Softcover, Manchester University Press, 2004. Find signed collectible books: 'Terence Davies (British Film-Makers)'.

Terence Davies’ Of Time And The City, shown out of competition, has .

The film mixes archive footage of the director’s birthplace Liverpool with an atmospheric and inspiring voiceover provided by Davies himself. Times film critic Wendy Ide called the film both a celebration and a eulogy for an iconic city. Speaking at the UK Film Council’s office in Cannes, Davies called on British film-makers to look to their own country or city for ideas.

The straightforward answer is, leave the cloud alone; this gifted British film maker is a oneoff, a poet of music, time and memory, whose unique quality is emotional more than intellectual

Manchester University Press, 2OO4. The straightforward answer is, leave the cloud alone; this gifted British film maker is a oneoff, a poet of music, time and memory, whose unique quality is emotional more than intellectual. One of the many strengths of this first full-length study of the director is that it never loses sight of this blend of mind and heart. Wendy Everett has achieved a remarkable balance between the two, and the result is an outstanding book. Davies's haunted yet lyrical world is the direct result of his upbringing, and cannot be separated from it.

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Terence Davies has made some of the most innovative, harrowing, and hauntingly lyrical films of the contemporary era. This first ever book-length study of his work combines detailed analysis of all his films with a persuasive and stimulating investigation of key filmic issues of time and memory, identity and selfhood, and the nature of literary adaptation, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Davies himself. The book demonstrates that Davies's films successfully subvert traditional division between "popular" culture and "art-house" cinema. Gardner explores not only Davies's debt to social realism, the British Documentary movement, and Ealing comedies, but equally to the European auteur tradition and to the great Hollywood musicals and melodramas that continue to inspire him. It provides fresh insight into the centrality of music in Davies's work, and into his conviction that film itself is closer to music than to any other art form.