Carol Reed
1st Edition
Published on 4. January 2019
208 pages
978-1-5261-4120-0 (ISBN)
Description
Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration. This major study ranges over Reed's entire career, combining observation of general trends and patterns with detailed analysis of twenty films, both acknowledged masterpieces and lesser-known works.
Evans avoids a simplistic auteurist approach, placing the films in their autobiographical, socio-political and cultural contexts and relating these to the analysis of Reed's art. The critical approach combines psychoanalysis, gender theory, and the analysis of form. Archival research is also relied on to clarify Reed's relations with his creative team, financial backers and others.
Films examined include Bank Holiday, A Girl Must Live, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Night Train to Munich, The Way Ahead, Outcast of the Islands, Trapeze and Oliver!. -- .
Evans avoids a simplistic auteurist approach, placing the films in their autobiographical, socio-political and cultural contexts and relating these to the analysis of Reed's art. The critical approach combines psychoanalysis, gender theory, and the analysis of form. Archival research is also relied on to clarify Reed's relations with his creative team, financial backers and others.
Films examined include Bank Holiday, A Girl Must Live, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Night Train to Munich, The Way Ahead, Outcast of the Islands, Trapeze and Oliver!. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
Illustrations, black & white
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-4120-0 (9781526141200)
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Peter William Evans
Carol Reed
Book
06/2005
Manchester University Press
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Peter William Evans teaches Film at Queen Mary, University of London
Content
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Series editors' foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Early days: girls in the news
- The 1940s: love and death
- Hearts of the matter: the Graham Greene films
- The 1950s and characters in-between
- An Englishman abroad
- The last hurrah
- Conclusion
- Filmography
- References
- Index
