17%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
A Mirror for England: British Movies from Austerity to Affluence
Raymond Durgnat
€ 40.99
€ 33.85
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for A Mirror for England: British Movies from Austerity to Affluence
Paperback. Raymond Durgnat'sclassic study of how themiddle-class view of life as expressed in British cinema transformed our understanding of British films and also opened some disturbing new insights into a national character by whose enigmas and contradictions we have so long been fascinated. Includes a newforeword by Kevin Gough-Yates. Series: BFI Silver. Num Pages: 416 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; APF; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 190 x 135 x 33. Weight in Grams: 650. British Movies from Austerity to Affluence. Series: BFI Silver. 416 pages, 79 black & white halftones. Raymond Durgnat'sclassic study of how themiddle-class view of life as expressed in British cinema transformed our understanding of British films and also opened some disturbing new insights into a national character by whose enigmas and contradictions we have so long been fascinated. Includes a newforeword by Kevin Gough-Yates. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; APF; HBTB. Dimension: 190 x 135 x 33. Weight: 650.
Raymond Durgnat's classic study of British films from the 1940s to the 1960s, first published in 1970, remains one of the most important books ever written on British cinema. In his introduction, Kevin Gough-Yates writes: 'Even now, it astounds by its courage and its audacity; if you think you have an 'original' approach to a filmor a director's work and check it against A Mirror for England, you generally discover that Raymond Durgnat had said it already.' Durgnat himself said about the book that 'the main point was arranging a kind of rendezvous between thinking about movies and thinking, not ... Read more
Raymond Durgnat's classic study of British films from the 1940s to the 1960s, first published in 1970, remains one of the most important books ever written on British cinema. In his introduction, Kevin Gough-Yates writes: 'Even now, it astounds by its courage and its audacity; if you think you have an 'original' approach to a filmor a director's work and check it against A Mirror for England, you generally discover that Raymond Durgnat had said it already.' Durgnat himself said about the book that 'the main point was arranging a kind of rendezvous between thinking about movies and thinking, not ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
BFI Silver
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844574537
SKU
V9781844574537
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Raymond Durgnat
RAYMOND DURGNAT (1932–2002) was the author of many groundbreaking books about the cinema, among them Films and Feelings (1967), Sexual Alienation in the Cinema (1972), The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir (both 1974), a study of WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1999) in the BFI Film Classics series, and A Long Hard Look at Psycho (2002), a ... Read more
Reviews for A Mirror for England: British Movies from Austerity to Affluence