Terence Davies by Koresky, Michael
Terence Davies by Koresky, Michael

Terence Davies

Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics...
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Author: Michael Koresky
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Terence Davies by Koresky, Michael

Terence Davies

$78.90
Terence Davies by Koresky, Michael

Terence Davies

$78.90
Author: Michael Koresky
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes, personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His idiosyncratic and unorthodox narrative films defy easy categorization, as their seeming existence within realism and personal memory cinema is undermined by an abstractness that makes the way he lays bare personal pain come across as distant, even alien.

Film critic Michael Koresky explores the unique emotional tenor of Davies's work by focusing on four paradoxes within the director's oeuvre: films that are autobiographical yet fictional; melancholy yet elating; conservative in tone and theme yet radically constructed; and obsessed with the passing of time yet frozen in time and space. Through these contradictions, the films' intricate designs reveal a cumulative, deeply personal meditation on the self. Koresky also analyzes how Davies's ongoing negotiation of--and struggle with--questions of identity related to his past and his homosexuality imbue the details and jarring juxtapositions in his films with a queer sensibility, which is too often overlooked due to the complexity of Davies's work and his unfashionable ambivalence toward his own sexual orientation.



Author: Michael Koresky
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 08/15/2014
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780252080210


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2015 pg. 980

About the Author
Michael Koresky is staff writer and associate editor at The Criterion Collection and cofounder of the online film magazine Reverse Shot.


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