Paperback / softback
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Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema - a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train.
Though it's a film made by men, it is the woman's voice we hear recounting the story of a small-town love affair and her renunciation of it.
In his lucid analysis of the film, Richard Dyer explores how its depiction of powerful feelings kept under wraps is a definitive example of a particularly English style of emotional restraint, but also how it spoke to a gay audience for whom this subject - forbidden love between ordinary people - had a special resonance. This reissued edition features original cover artwork by Rania Moudaress and a substantial new foreword that revisits the film and recent readings of it, covering its enduring legacy and adaptation for theatre and television.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:80 pages, 80 p.
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:11/11/2015
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- ISBN:9781844578771
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:80 pages, 80 p.
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:11/11/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781844578771
