{"product_id":"english-filming-english-writing-paperback-softback-9780253221773","title":"English Filming, English Writing (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253221773","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEnglish Filming, English Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJefferson Hunter (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253221773\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 April 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . ambitious and expansive . . . .\"—Lucy Scholes, \u003ci\u003eTLS - Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, 2\/18\/11\u003cbr\u003e \"A substantive, seductive, charming piece of work, this book is a paradigm of good sense and clarity—neither pedantic nor trendy. . . . Highly recommended. November 2010\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"I recommend this book to those who take pleasure in cinema; I prescribe it to those who need to learn how to write about the aesthetics of cinema, not the ideology of culture.Issue 30 - 2011\"—\u003ci\u003eScreening the Past\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Beautifully written . . . surprising and persuasive . . . but never in the sort of language that might deter the non-specialist.\"—Brian McFarlane, \u003ci\u003eMonash University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hunter draws attention to some works that have received little critical attention and traces the cultural influences and inflections that make them work. . . . This book provides a fascinating contribution to studies of British cinema but also opens out into much broader concerns regarding national cultures.\"—Jim Leach, \u003ci\u003eBrock University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eJefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the 20th century. He traces themes such as the influence of U.S. crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in screen work from the 1930s to the present. \u003ci\u003eA Canterbury Tale\u003c\/i\u003e and the documentary \u003ci\u003eListen to Britain\u003c\/i\u003e are analyzed in the context of village pageants and other wartime explorations of Englishness at risk. English crime dramas are set against the writings of George Orwell, while a famous line from Noel Coward leads to a discussion of music and image in works like \u003ci\u003eBrief Encounter \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLook Back in Anger.\u003c\/i\u003e Screen adaptation is also broached in analyses of the 1985 BBC version of Dickens's \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003e and Merchant-Ivory's \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: By Way of Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears\u003cbr\u003e 1. Wartime Pageantry\u003cbr\u003e The Archers on Pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003e Screen Processions and Village Pageants\u003cbr\u003e The Documentary Pageant: Jennings's Listen to Britain\u003cbr\u003e 2. American Gangsters, English Crime Films, and Dennis Potter\u003cbr\u003e George Orwell versus James Hadley Chase\u003cbr\u003e Contending with America\u003cbr\u003e In Search of an English Crime Film\u003cbr\u003e The Singing Detective as Summa Criminologica\u003cbr\u003e 3. Two Texts to Screen\u003cbr\u003e How to Adapt Dickens, and How Not to Do It\u003cbr\u003e Ishiguro and Merchant-Ivory, Upstairs and Downstairs\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Strange Potencies of Music\u003cbr\u003e Rawsthorne and Rachmaninoff\u003cbr\u003e Rolling Out the Barrel, Looking Up and Laughing\u003cbr\u003e Distant Voices and Lip-Synched Lives\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: By Way of Tony Harrison and Alan Bennett\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52526017610008,"sku":"9780253221773","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/english-filming-english-writing-paperback-softback-9780253221773","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}