The Films of John Schlesinger

Name: The Films of John Schlesinger
Brand: Anthem Press

Anthem Press

The Films of John SchlesingerAuthor(s): Julia Prewitt Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Anthem Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Anthem Press\nISBN-13: 9781783089789, 978-1783089789\nSynopsis\nThe city, with its manifold distractions and violence, its invitation to intoxication and dream, had long served to represent the experience of modernity in works of art at the time John Schlesinger made his acclaimed urban documentary Terminus in 1961. To be a reader of the city was to be a reader of modern life, and Schlesinger was a discriminating, at times relentless, reader of the city throughout his career, especially in his three greatest films, Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday and The Day of the Locust, set in New York, London and Los Angeles, respectively. His character-driven stories, evocation of the significance of the everyday, and insistence on ambiguities of situation and motive all qualities he was known for point to literary influences that reach back to the nineteenth c.