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Joseph Losey

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Joseph Losey

Contributors:

By (Author) Colin Gardner

ISBN:

9780719067839

Publisher:

Manchester University Press

Imprint:

Manchester University Press

Publication Date:

2nd March 2004

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Dewey:

791.430233092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

328

Dimensions:

Width 138mm, Height 216mm

Description

The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality. -- .

Author Bio

Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara

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