The Films of John Schlesinger

The Films of John Schlesinger
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Publisher : Anthem Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9781783089796
ISBN-13 : 1783089792
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Book Synopsis The Films of John Schlesinger by : Julia Prewitt Brown

Download or read book The Films of John Schlesinger written by Julia Prewitt Brown and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city, with its manifold distractions and violence, its invitation to intoxication and dream, had long served to represent the experience of modernity in works of art at the time John Schlesinger made his acclaimed urban documentary ‘Terminus’ in 1961. To be a reader of the city was to be a reader of modern life, and Schlesinger was a discriminating, at times relentless, reader of the city throughout his career, especially in his three greatest films, ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and ‘The Day of the Locust’, set in New York, London and Los Angeles, respectively. His character-driven stories, evocation of the significance of the everyday, and insistence on ambiguities of situation and motive – all qualities he was known for – point to literary influences that reach back to the nineteenth century and earlier. ‘The Films of John Schlesinger’ is not only the first book to fully acknowledge those influences, but also the first book to explicate the power of his art to capture the modern, urban experiences of becoming an adult in an atmosphere that relentlessly promotes fantasies of success and wealth; of coming to terms with one’s national identity in the context of international politics; and of attempting to transform the past, both personal and cultural, into a viable present.


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