A Life in 16 Films : How Cinema Made a Playwright /: How Cinema Made a Playwright. (2021)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- A Life in 16 Films : How Cinema Made a Playwright /: How Cinema Made a Playwright. (2021)
- Main Title:
- A Life in 16 Films : How Cinema Made a Playwright
- Further Information:
- Note: Steve Waters.
- Authors:
- Waters, Steve
- Contents:
- Introduction – Dark Waters (2019, Todd Haynes)Watching film in an age of CovidThe Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming) Working-class cinema-going in the Midlands; children and adult film; the Western; film as an embodiment of malenessLogan's Run (1976, Michael Anderson) Rural England and the appeal of horror and sci-fi; rural v city; class conflictNosferatu The Vampyre (1979, Werner Herzog) Grammar school in the 80s; uncinematic nature of provincial Britain; discovery of art and European filmSolaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky) Coming of age during Thatcher and punk; film and cycling; the rise of Channel 4 as a vector for film; second cold war; Solaris v Apocalypse NowShoah (1985, Claude Lanzmann) Kibbutz Dalia, Israel; Film and internationalism; film and the Holocaust; travels in the Middle East; confirmation biasVagabond (1985, Agnès Varda) Film and intellectualism at Oxford University; feminist and queer film; making filmComrades (1986, Bill Douglas) Film, work and radical politics; Communist and the city of Bristol; theatre and radical film-making; John Akomfrah and Julian IsaacThe White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929, Arnold Fanck and GW Pabst) Becoming a teacher; film history and education; falling in love through filmReservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) Studying with playwrights Sarah Kane and David Edgar; Reservoir Dogs and Blasted; caught between film and theatre; influence of David Mamet, Quentin Tarantino and Sarah KaneWinter Light (1963, Ingmar Bergman)Film, marriage andIntroduction – Dark Waters (2019, Todd Haynes)Watching film in an age of CovidThe Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming) Working-class cinema-going in the Midlands; children and adult film; the Western; film as an embodiment of malenessLogan's Run (1976, Michael Anderson) Rural England and the appeal of horror and sci-fi; rural v city; class conflictNosferatu The Vampyre (1979, Werner Herzog) Grammar school in the 80s; uncinematic nature of provincial Britain; discovery of art and European filmSolaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky) Coming of age during Thatcher and punk; film and cycling; the rise of Channel 4 as a vector for film; second cold war; Solaris v Apocalypse NowShoah (1985, Claude Lanzmann) Kibbutz Dalia, Israel; Film and internationalism; film and the Holocaust; travels in the Middle East; confirmation biasVagabond (1985, Agnès Varda) Film and intellectualism at Oxford University; feminist and queer film; making filmComrades (1986, Bill Douglas) Film, work and radical politics; Communist and the city of Bristol; theatre and radical film-making; John Akomfrah and Julian IsaacThe White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929, Arnold Fanck and GW Pabst) Becoming a teacher; film history and education; falling in love through filmReservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) Studying with playwrights Sarah Kane and David Edgar; Reservoir Dogs and Blasted; caught between film and theatre; influence of David Mamet, Quentin Tarantino and Sarah KaneWinter Light (1963, Ingmar Bergman)Film, marriage and faith; Bergman and Bresson; film as ritual; becoming a theatre director; becoming a playwrightCode Unknown (2001, Michael Haneke) Film and London; residential playwright at Hampstead Theatre; writing and multi-culturalism; Haneke's pessimism versus 'Cool Britannia'The Wind Will Carry Us (2000, Abbas Kiarostami) After 9/11; film and the War on Terror; film and having children; writing World music; influence of Iranian filmAn Inconvenient Truth (2006, Davis Guggenheim) Film and ecology; climate change activism and writing The Contingency Plan; adapting theatre to filmHell or High Water (2016, David Mackenzie)Film and precarity; parents' death; illness; end of cinema; growth of populismAfterword - Girlhood (2019, Céline Sciamma) Watching films with my daughterIndex. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Methuen Drama
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (144 pages)
- Subjects:
- Memoirs
Films, cinema
Performing Arts -- Theater -- General
Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism
Biography & Autobiography -- Personal Memoirs
Theatre: individual actors & directors - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350205253
1350205257 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350205222
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.615261
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