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Karel Reisz (Paperback)
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Karel Reisz (Paperback)
Series: British Film-Makers
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Perhaps best known for his controversial 1981 adaptation of John
Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman, Czech-born refugee Karel
Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures
in post-war British cinema. Along with Lindsay Anderson and Tony
Richardson, Reisz was a founder member of the independent Free
Cinema 'movement' which attacked the parochial middle-class values
of home-grown studio product with a vigorous commitment to everyday
working-class subject matter and a poetically-charged film style,
the aesthetic foundation for the international success of Reisz's
first feature, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960). As the
import of Free Cinema rapidly dissipated during the 'Swinging
London' era, Reisz confronted the changing cultural mores of the
1960s and 1970s with a series of ambivalent films that critique the
anarchic free spirit of the times, including Morgan (1966), Isadora
(1968), The Gambler (1974) and Dog Soldiers/Who'll Stop the Rain
(1978), the latter a dark meditation on the corruption of the
drug-based counter-culture following the Vietnam War. These films
express Reisz's own deep crisis of political commitment as the
ideological safety-net of the original New Left fell into disarray.
Drawing on Reisz's early film criticism for Sequence and Sight and
Sound, as well as interdisciplinary methodologies derived from
post-structuralism and Cultural Studies, this first career-length
study explores Reisz's personal brand of character-based realism,
offering the spectator a privileged insight into an artist's
developing response to subjective and historical dislocation. The
book should thus prove invaluable to film scholars, cultural
historians and the Reisz aficionado.
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