The Films of Peter GreenawayThe Films of Peter Greenaway is the first critical overview of one of the most controversial contemporary film-makers. Trained as an artist, Greenaway began his career in cinema as an editor of government-sponsored films. He began to attract critical attention in 1980 with his epic mock-documentary The Falls, the first British film to be named Best Film by the British Film Institute in 30 years. Since then he has created the wittily elegant The Draughtsman's Contract, the strikingly unconventional Shakespearean adaptation Prospero's Books, and the disturbingly violent The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. In-depth analyses of these and several other of Greenaway's most important works are examined within the context of the director's biography and artistic goals. This edition also includes stills from Greenaway's feature films, as well as his own drawings. |
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Table des matières
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| 49 | |
| 71 | |
Drowning by Numbers 1988 | 98 |
The Belly of an Architect 1986 | 113 |
2o Kracklite applauding Brian Dennehy | 118 |
Stourley Kracklite alone | 129 |
Patriarchy and the Artist | 140 |
Sir John Gielgud as Prospero | 145 |
Allegorical Figures | 156 |
The Cook The Thief His Wife | 165 |
The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover 1989 | 177 |
Georgina and Spica | 183 |
Filmography | 189 |
Selected Bibliography | 215 |
Greenaway with Michel Blanc on the set of Prosperos Books 1991 | 141 |
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Alba Albert animals Architect architecture artist asks becomes begins Belly birds Borges Boullee Boullee's camera Caspasian characters Chas cinema Cinematography Cissie Colpitts Cook culture dead Dear Phone death Draughtsman's Contract drawings Drowning by Numbers Dutch English exhibit Fallbutus Fallcaster Falls fiction figure film's filmmaker Flavia frame garden Georgina Gielgud Green Greenaway's films Hacker and Price Helen Mirren Herbert Hoyten identified Interview Jan Roelfs Kracklite Kracklite's Krays Langham language Lemagny Long Good Friday Louisa Madgett Meegeren Michael Gambon Michael Nyman Mirren Music narration Neville Noughts painting Paulson Peter Greenaway Piranesi played postcards Produced Prospero's Books Quoted in Hacker Resnais restaurant Rome Rosenau Sacha Vierny scene screenplay shot Smut Speckler Spica story Stourley Stourley's style Talmann tells Thief things tion Tulse Luper Vermeer Vertical Features Remake violence voice Walk Through H wife woman women word writing
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Page 164 - Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint.
Page 20 - Chinese encyclopaedia' in which it is written that 'animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (1) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies.
Page 21 - ... all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other. This passage quotes a 'certain Chinese encyclopaedia...
Page 151 - Out of his charity, who being then appointed Master of this design, did give us, with Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, Which since have steaded much/ so, of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
Page 59 - Mr. Neville, I have grown to believe that a really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter, for painting requires a certain blindness - a partial refusal to be aware of all options. An intelligent man will know more about what he is drawing than he will see. And in the space between knowing and seeing, he will become constrained, unable to...
Page 209 - Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (New York: Methuen. 1982).
Page 209 - Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973). For Bloom the poet achieves sublimity only through overcoming the threat represented by the work of a "strong
Page 196 - The monstrous quality that runs through Borges's enumeration consists, on the contrary, in the fact that the common ground on which such meetings are possible has itself been destroyed.
Page 213 - ... and so defeat its own purpose. So, then, wherever wasteful expenditure and the show of abstention from effort is normally, or on an average, carried to the extent of showing obvious discomfort or voluntarily induced physical disability, there the immediate inference is that the individual in question does not perform this wasteful expenditure and undergo this disability for her own personal gain in pecuniary repute, but in behalf of some one else to whom she stands in a relation of economic dependence;...
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | The Films of Peter Greenaway Cambridge Film Classics |
| Auteur | Amy Lawrence |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | CUP Archive, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0521473632, 9780521473637 |
| Longueur | 225 pages |
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