The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears
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The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears

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The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears

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Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and daring, and yet many often have trouble remembering his name. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears celebrates this great filmmaker, beginning with a short biography of Frears, general observations on unifying themes and styles in his oeuvre, and the characterization of his manner of directing. By focusing on 10 key films, Lesley Brill finds coherence in Frears' characteristic irony and in his concentration on many kinds of love. In movies such as My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena, and many others, Frears portrays widely varied situations and characters with a combination of insight, skepticism, and sympathy. He has the passionate, unjudgmental focus of an artist who stands simultaneously at a distance from his subjects and within their worlds. Through Frears' work is widely admired, Brill argues that he has attracted little scholarly writing because of a combination of the diffidence of his self-presentation and the difficulty of explicating the complex ideas and characters of his films. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears is meant to inspire others to further examine his films individually and his career as a whole.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
ISBN
9781501320347
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Part 1 Introduction
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. Part 2 Unclassifiable Love: My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, and Dirty Pretty Things
  9. 2 My Beautiful Laundrette
  10. 3 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
  11. 4 “Multi-whatever-it-is”: Dirty Pretty Things
  12. Part 3 Love, Power, and Pleasure: Dangerous Liaisons and Chéri
  13. 5 Dangerous Liaisons: Pride, Passion, and True Love
  14. 6 Chéri
  15. Part 4 Two Families: The Snapper and Liam
  16. 7 The Snapper
  17. 8 Liam
  18. Part 5 Love, Media, and Memory: The Queen and Philomena
  19. 9 The Queen
  20. 10 Philomena: Love and Evil, Truth and Forgiveness
  21. Part 6 Acceptance, Forgiveness, and Love: Mary Reilly
  22. 11 Mary Reilly
  23. Notes
  24. Video/Filmography as of March, 2016
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index
  27. Copyright