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Far From Heaven
John Gill
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Description for Far From Heaven
Paperback. John Gill provides a revealing insight into Todd Haynes' cult classic Far From Heaven (2002), the first single critical study of the film. Gill explores how Haynes confronts issues of race, sexuality and class in a surburban 1950s American neighbourhood, in a clear homage to director Douglas Sirk and his work of the period. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages, 65 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 189 x 149 x 10. Weight in Grams: 202.
Todd Haynes's 2002 film Far From Heaven has been hailed as a homage to 1950s Hollywood melodrama, although anyone tempted to take the film at face value should be warned that it aims to subvert as much as celebrate that genre. Impeccably constructed, with a care for detail unknown in films from the era, it sets out to make key themes from the genre – romance across racial barriers and class lines, and perhaps the period's greatest taboo, romance between members of the same sex – utterly explicit, when half a century ago those themes had to be encoded in ... Read more
Todd Haynes's 2002 film Far From Heaven has been hailed as a homage to 1950s Hollywood melodrama, although anyone tempted to take the film at face value should be warned that it aims to subvert as much as celebrate that genre. Impeccably constructed, with a care for detail unknown in films from the era, it sets out to make key themes from the genre – romance across racial barriers and class lines, and perhaps the period's greatest taboo, romance between members of the same sex – utterly explicit, when half a century ago those themes had to be encoded in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844572878
SKU
V9781844572878
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About John Gill
JOHN GILL is a former senior editor of Time Out London, editor of DOX International Documentary Quarterly and is the author of eight books, including Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in 20th Century Music (1995). He has written for publications ranging from Smash Hits to The Times.
Reviews for Far From Heaven
John Gill has done a fine job in the latest of the BFI's Film Classics series in examining the peculiar charms of this endlessly fascinating picture...
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