Shane Meadows: Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780748676392 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str.

Martin Fradley

Opis

From his breakthrough short films in the early 1990s and feature debut TwentyFourSeven (1997) through to the BAFTA-winning This Is England (2007) and hit television spin-off, director Shane Meadows has emerged as one of the most distinctive and influential voices in contemporary British cinema. Shane Meadows: Critical Essays is the first book on this widely admired filmmaker, and explores the full range of his work, from its origins in local no-budget D.I.Y. media through to international festival acclaim and multiple award wins. Through a range of essays, it presents a comprehensive analysis of Shane Meadows' oeuvre to date, situating his work in the context of British cinema history as well as wider cultural changes from the nineties to now. An essential read for students and scholars working in the field of British cinema, this in-depth examination of Shane Meadow's work is also invaluable to those studying British directors, British television and auteurism.

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Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Contents ;1) Introduction: Shane’s World, Martin Fradley, Sarah Godfrey and Melanie Williams; 2) Structure and Agency: Shane Meadows and the New Regional Production Sectors, Jack Newsinger; 3) Twenty-first-Century Social Realism: Shane Meadows and New British Realism, Dave Forrest; 4) ‘Al Fresco? That’s up yer anus, innit?’: Shane Meadows and the Politics of Abjection, Martin Fradley; 5) No More Heroes: The Politics of Marginality and Disenchantment in TwentyFourSeven and This is England, Jill Steans; 6) ‘Now I’m The Monster’: Remembering, Repeating and Working Through in Dead Man’s Shoes and TwentyFourSeven, Paul Elliott; 7) ‘An object of indecipherable bastardry – a true monster’: Homosociality, Homoeroticism and Generic Hybridity in Dead Man’s Shoes, Clair Schwarz; 8) A Message to You, Maggie: 1980s Skinhead Subculture and Music in This Is England , Tim Snelson and Emma Sutton; 9) Changing Spaces of ‘Englishness’: Psychogeography and Spatial Practices in This is England and Somers Town, Sarah N. Petrovic; 10) ‘Shane, don’t film this bit’: Comedy and Performance in Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee, Brett Mills; 11) ‘Them over there’: Motherhood and Marginality in Shane Meadows’ Films, Louise FitzGerald and Sarah Godfrey; 12) ‘What do you think makes a bad dad?’: Shane Meadows and Fatherhood, Martin Fradley and Sean Kingston; 13) Is This England ’86 and ’88? Memory, Haunting and Return through Television Seriality , David Rolinson and Faye Woods; 14) After Laughter Comes Tears: Passion and Redemption in This is England ’88, Robert Murphy