The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece. It's a film about desires repressed in favour of worthless and unsatisfying ideals. And it's a film about how England dreamt of itself as a nation and how this dream disguised inadequacy and brutality in the clothes of honour. A. L. Kennedy, writing as a Scot, is fascinated by the nationalism which The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp explores. She finds human worth in the film and the pathos of stifled emotions and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-83871-909-8
- EAN: 9781838719098
- Produktnummer: 33504816
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 88 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'515 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 24 b/w illustrations
Über den Autor
A.L. Kennedy is a multiple prize-winning author. She has written 14 books, including novels, short story collections and non-fiction and her 2007 novel Day was named Costa Book of the Year at the Costa Book Awards. She is a regular writer for The Guardian and her columns on writing are collected in her most recent book On Writing (2013).
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