Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema - a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train. Though it's a film made by men, it is the woman's voice we hear recounting the story of a small-town love affair and her renunciation of it. In his lucid analysis of the film, Richard Dyer explores how its depiction of powerful feelings kept under wraps is a definitive example of a particularly English style of emotional restraint, but also how it spoke to a gay audience for whom this subject - forbidden love between ordinary people - had a special…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84457-879-5
- EAN: 9781844578795
- Produktnummer: 27620240
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 11'669 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 25 b/w photos
Über den Autor
RICHARD DYER is Professor Emeritus at King's College, London and Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK. His books include Stars (1979; 1998), The Culture of Queers (2002) and White: Essays on Race and Culture (1997).
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