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Zusatztext Lesley Brill demonstrates once again why he ranks among the most incisive and articulate of auteur critics. This study of Stephen Frears provides a thorough, well-argued, and persuasive account of one of world cinema’s most important practicing directors. Informationen zum Autor Lesley Brill is Professor of English and Film Studies at Wayne State University, USA. He has published articles on film, literature, and photography, along with three books on film: The Hitchcock Romance , John Huston's Filmmaking , and Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema . Vorwort The first book in English to address the directing career of Stephen Frears. Zusammenfassung Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and daring, and yet many often have trouble remembering his name. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears celebrates this great filmmaker, beginning with a short biography of Frears, general observations on unifying themes and styles in his oeuvre, and the characterization of his manner of directing. By focusing on 10 key films, Lesley Brill finds coherence in Frears' characteristic irony and in his concentration on many kinds of love. In movies such as My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena , and many others, Frears portrays widely varied situations and characters with a combination of insight, skepticism, and sympathy. He has the passionate, unjudgmental focus of an artist who stands simultaneously at a distance from his subjects and within their worlds. Through Frears' work is widely admired, Brill argues that he has attracted little scholarly writing because of a combination of the diffidence of his self-presentation and the difficulty of explicating the complex ideas and characters of his films. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears is meant to inspire others to further examine his films individually and his career as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Introduction1. General Introduction2. A brief biography of Stephen Frears3. Frears on Direction4. Auteur Malgré LuiII. Analyses 1. Unclassifiable Love ( My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Dirty Pretty Things )2. Love, Power, and Pleasure ( Dangerous Liaisons, Chéri )3. Love, Media, and Memory ( The Queen, Philomena )4. Children and Families ( The Snapper, Liam )5. Mary Reilly Film/videographySelect BibliographyIndex...
