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- Author: Steve Waters
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Year: 2021
- Pages: 144
- ISBN-10: 1350205222
- ISBN-13: 9781350205222
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Steve Waters examines how the very idea of film has defined him as a playwright and a person in this book. Through the the lens of cinema, it provides a cultural and political snapshot of life in Britain from the 2nd part of the 20th century up to the present day.
The films spanning almost a century, starting with The White Hell of Pitz Palu(1929) and moving most recently to Dark Waters(2019), each chapter examines aspects of Waters's journey from his working-class Midlands upbringing to working in professional theatre to living through the Covid epidemic, through the prism of a particular film.
From The Wizard of Oz to Code Unknown, from sci-fi to documentary, from queer cinema to world cinema, this honest, comic book offers a view of film as a way of thinking about how we live. In doing so, it illuminates culture and politics in the UK over half a century and provides an intimate insight into drama and writin
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- Author: Steve Waters
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Year: 2021
- Pages: 144
- ISBN-10: 1350205222
- ISBN-13: 9781350205222
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Steve Waters examines how the very idea of film has defined him as a playwright and a person in this book. Through the the lens of cinema, it provides a cultural and political snapshot of life in Britain from the 2nd part of the 20th century up to the present day.
The films spanning almost a century, starting with The White Hell of Pitz Palu(1929) and moving most recently to Dark Waters(2019), each chapter examines aspects of Waters's journey from his working-class Midlands upbringing to working in professional theatre to living through the Covid epidemic, through the prism of a particular film.
From The Wizard of Oz to Code Unknown, from sci-fi to documentary, from queer cinema to world cinema, this honest, comic book offers a view of film as a way of thinking about how we live. In doing so, it illuminates culture and politics in the UK over half a century and provides an intimate insight into drama and writin
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