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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 January 2010
      25 June 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511624391
      9780521383868
      9780521387804
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624391
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.397kg, 188 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.271kg, 188 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Film Classics
      Subjects:
      Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Western Art
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    Series:
    Cambridge Film Classics
    Subjects:
    Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Western Art
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    The Films of Joseph Losey examines the career of the expatriot director through a close analysis of five of his most important and challenging films. When his leftist politics made him a target of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities in 1951, the blacklisted Losey left America and continued his film career in England. Concerned mainly with the use and abuse of power inherent in intimate relationships, Losey also examined these issues as manifested in institutions and social classes. The book also examines Losey's close working relationships with playwright/screenwriter Harold Pinter and actor Dirk Bogarde, his experimental form of storytelling, the psychological complexity of characters acting as narrator of their own stories, and the intricate handling of time in the structure of his films. Close studies of King and Country, The Servant, Accident, The Go-Between, and The Romantic Englishwoman confirm Losey's stature as a director of powerful and compelling films of both moral importance and great formal complexity.

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    "...one of the better books in the Cambridge Film Classics series...." Philip French, Times Literary Supplement

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