Withnail and I
1st Edition
Published on 25. July 2019
96 pages
978-1-83902-121-3 (ISBN)
Description
Kevin Jackson recounts that experience in addition to giving a full account of the film's production. But chiefly he analyses the mood and magic of the film, its aesthetics and sensibility, seeking to show, without ever detracting from the film's comic brilliance, just how much more there is to Withnail & I than drunkenness and swearing. 'It is an outstandingly touching yet witheringly unsentimental drama of male friendship,' Jackson writes, 'a bleak up-ending of the English pastoral dream, a piece of ferocious verbal inventiveness' - and, without question, one of the greatest of all British films.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-83902-121-3 (9781839021213)
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Person
KEVIN JACKSON is author of Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities (2003), Letters of Introduction (2004), and Humphrey Jennings (1993).
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Withnail & Me
- 1. A Terrible Cult?
- 2. The Arena of the Unwell
- 3. A Kingdom of Rains
- 4. The Last Island of Beauty
- 5. The Company of Wolves
- Notes
- Credits
