The British Art Cinema, 1938-2008: Reconsideration and Review
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3 TABLE OF CONTENTS The British Art Cinema, 1938-2008: Reconsideration and Review 5 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS & CITATIONS 9 INTRODUCTION 19 PREVIEW: "Museum Cinema: White Mischief, A Handful of Dust, and Others" VIEWS 23 "All That Glitters: The Early Film Career of John Schlesinger" 35 "Pride and Prejudice, or Class and Character: Jack Clayton's Room at the Top Revisited" 45 "Legitimized Violence, or How We Shot the War: On Richard Lester's How I Won the War" 55 "'Outing' Edward, Outfitting Marlowe: Derek Jarman's Film of Edward IF' 67 "Work, Family, and Politics: The Films of Ken Loach" 87 "The Committed Cinema of Mike Leigh" 107 "Dark Passage, British Boom: David Lean's A Passage to India'' 117 "Notes on Three Emblematic Film Adaptations of Literary Works: James Ivory's The Remains of the Day, John Huston's The Dead, and Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons" 135 "Drama into Film: The Cases of Harold Pinter's Betrayal and Kenneth Branaglvs Henry V" 151 "When Titans Meet: Orson Welles, Falstaff, and Chimes at Midnight" REVIEWS 161 "New British Cinema of the 1980s: David Leland's Wish You Were Here, Alan Clarke's Rita, Sue, and Bob Too, Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I, Stephen Frears' Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, and Jack Clayton's The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" 179 "Newer Scottish Cinema of the 1990s: Danny Boyle's Trainspotting and Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher" 199 "Strange Bedfellows: Paul Schrader's The Comfort of Strangers and Philip Haas's Angels and Insects" 217 "Love Story: Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy and Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears" 231 "Left Feet: Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot, and John Boorman's Hope and Glory" 241 "To and From Scotland, with Love: Jane Campion's The Piano and Hans Petter http://d-nb.info/105430906X 4 Moland's Aberdeen" 253 "Anglo-Americana, or Drama and Fiction into Film/Films by Dramatists: On Richard Eyre's Stage Beauty and Stephen Daldry's The Hours" 263 "Odd Couples: On Roger Michell's Enduring Love and Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love" INTERVIEWS 275 "David Hare on Film" 283 "A Conversation with Stanley Kauffmann on British Cinema, with Special Reference to the Film of Shaw's Pygmalion" 307 '"Making People Think Is What It's All About': A Conversation with Mike Leigh" 347 "'It's Not Just about Me': Ken Loach and the Cinema of Social Conscience; An Interview" 371 "'Girls Are the New Men': An Interview with Pawel Pawlikowski" 385 "Of Time, Memory, and the Movies: Talking to Terence Davies" 401 REARVIEW: "Service in In Which We Serve" 407 CREDITS AND FEATURE FILMOGRAPHIES 451 GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 475 INDEX .