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The cinema of Tony Richardson : essays and interviews

The contributors to this study critically survey the films of Tony Richardson, one of Britain's most inventive directors of stage and screen during the 1950s and 1960s
Print Book, English, ©1999
State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y., ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xviii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780791442494, 9780791442500, 0791442497, 0791442500
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Introduction : Running the distance / James M. Welsh
"Let's talk about Tony" : interviews with colleagues (Karel Reisz, Kevin Brownlow, David Watkin, and Angela Allen) / John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsch
Breaking the proscenium : Tony Richardson, the free cinema, the Royal Court, and Woodfall Films (Look back in anger [1959] and The entertainer [1960]) / John C. Tibbetts
"Greatest pleasures" : A taste of honey (1961) and The loneliness of the long distance runner (1962) / William L. Horne
Novelist versus filmmaker : Richardson's adaptations of Faulkner's Sanctuary (1961) and Waugh's Loved one (1965) / Gene D. Phillips
Impossible dreams : Mademoiselle (1966) and The sailor from Gibraltar (1967) / Rebecca M. Pauly
History revisited : The charge of the light brigade (1968) / Linda Costanzo Cahir and Stephen Cahir
King of infinite space : Richardson's Hamlet (1969) / Paul Meier
Narrative voice and "Chorus on the stage" in Tom Jones (1963) / Judith Bailey Slagle and Robert Holtzclaw
Henry Fielding revisited : Joseph Andrews (1977) / James M. Welsh
Reflections on class : Tom Jones (1963) and Joseph Andrews (1977) / Kenneth S. Nolley
Revisiting and re-visioning : A delicate balance (1973) and the Hotel New Hampshire (1984) / Edward T. Jones
American contexts : A delicate balance (1973) to Blue sky (1990-94) / James M. Welsh and Bruce Hutchinson