Films can illustrate our existence... they can distress, disturb and provoke people into thinking about themselves and certain problems. But not give the answers |
Joseph LOSEY |
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14.01.1909, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA † 22.06.1984, London, England, GB |
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FILMS |
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The
Boy with Green Hair (Der Junge mit den grünen Haaren, 1948-USA)
Familiendrama mit Dean Stockwell |
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AWARDS |
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Großer
Jurypreis für Accident [Filmfestspiele Cannes
1967] |
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BOOKS |
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Michel Ciment: Le livre de Losey: entretiens avec le cinéaste.
Paris: Ramsay, 1986 |
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The career of Wiscnsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades, and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theatre, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht, before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. Subsequently a victim of McCarthyism, he crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films – Time Without Pity, Eve, The Servant and The Go-Between – which mark him as one of cinema’s greatest ‘baroque’ stylists. Gardner here employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films’ uneasy tension between class and gender, and their more baroque explorations of fractured temporality. Contents: List of Plates * Series Editors' Foreword * Acknowledgements * 1. Introduction: Joseph Losey and the crisis of historical rupture * 2. Losey in exile: 'The Sleeping Tiger' (1954); 'A Man on the Beach' (1955) and 'The Intimate Stranger' (1956) * 3. A question of background: Class and the politics of impulse in 'Time Without Pity' (1957); 'The Gypsy and the Gentleman' (1957); 'Blind Date' (1959) and 'The Criminal' (1960) * 4. Dystopic malevolence and the politics of collusion: Evan Jones' 'The Damned' (1961); 'Eve' (1962); 'King and Country' (1964) and 'Modesty Blaise' (1966) * 5. Harold Pinter's time-image: 'The Servant' (1963); 'Accident' (1967) and 'The Go-Between' (1970) * 6. Three allegorical fables: 'Boom!' (1968); 'Secret Ceremony' (1968) and 'Figures in a Landscape' (1970) * 7. Bertholt Brecht and 'Galileo' (1974) * 8. Gender matters: 'A Doll's House' (1973); 'The Romantic Englishwoman' (1975) and 'Steaming' (1985) * 9. A second exile: Losey in Europe * 10. Conclusion * Filmography * Bibliography * Index |
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