Overview
- Features essays by, among others, David Robinson, Michael Eaton, Charles Barr, Robert Murphy, John Izod, Duncan Petrie and with a Foreword by Chris Holmlund
- This book deals with the unexplored aspects of film-maker Lindsay Anderson's highly influential personality within British cinema: his background, his film criticism, and his relationship to contemporary society.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson. Anderson was a highly influential personality within British cinema, mostly famous for landmark films like This Sporting Life (1963) and If….(1968). Lindsay Anderson Revisited deals primarily with hitherto unexplored aspects of his career: his biographical background in the British upper class, his devoted film criticism, and his angry relationship to contemporary society in general. Thus, the book contains chapters about his childhood in India, his writings about John Ford, his relationship to French star Serge Reggiani, his work on TV in the 1950s, his troubles with the British film establishment, and his gradually emerging preoccupation with being Scottish, not English. Also featured are chapters written by close friends of Anderson, who died in 1994, dwelling on his penchant for controversy and quarrel, but also on his remarkable artistic talent and commitment.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christophe Dupin is the Senior Administrator of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in Brussels, and a film historian. He produced and curated the BFI’s DVD box-set on Free Cinema, of which Lindsay Anderson was the central figure.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lindsay Anderson Revisited
Book Subtitle: Unknown Aspects of a Film Director
Editors: Erik Hedling, Christophe Dupin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53943-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53942-7Published: 24 June 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53943-4Published: 14 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 227
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Edited collection
Topics: Directing, British Culture, British Cinema and TV, Film History