The Cinema of Tony Richardson

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The Cinema of Tony Richardson
Essays and Interviews

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James M. Welsh - Editor
John C. Tibbetts - Editor

SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 297 pages

Release Date: August 1999

ISBN10: 0-7914-4249-7
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4249-4

Price: $32.95
Paperback - 297 pages

Release Date: August 1999

ISBN10: 0-7914-4250-0
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-4250-0

Summary

The Cinema of Tony Richardson examines for the first time the stage and screen achievements of Academy Award-winning director Tony Richardson, and includes recent interviews with his colleagues as well as a complete bibliography and filmography of his work.

An important cultural trend-setter both in Britain and America, Richardson is here given his due as an influential and inventive film director who specialized in literary adaptations and worked constantly in theater, film, and television production. Richardson (1928-1991) worked with George Devine at the Royal Court Theatre during the 1950s where he revolutionized British theater through his productions of John Osborne's plays Look Back in Anger (1956) and The Entertainer (1957). Both plays were then adapted to the cinema, launching Richardson's career as a feature film director. Richardson and Osborne later founded Windfall Film Productions, Ltd. to extend the concerns of "kitchen sink" realism from stage to screen and to make films that display the reality of British life. The Osborne projects were followed by screen adaptations of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey (1961) and Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), which became benchmark films for the British New Wave. Richardson went on to a distinguished career in Hollywood as a result of his Academy Award-winning 1963 adaptation of Henry Fielding's satiric novel Tom Jones.

"The Cinema of Tony Richardson provides a rounded portrait of a major English-language filmmaker who has been neglected by film historians. The book demonstrates that Richardson had a varied and interesting career--touching on the 'angry young man' period of British drama; the New Cinema of the 1960s; the French cultural icons Jean Genet, Jeanne Moreau, and Marguerite Duras; and evolving relationships among film, theater, and the novel." -- Peter Lev, Towson University

Contributors include Kevin Brownlow, Linda Costanzo Cahir, Jocelyn Herbert, Robert Holtzclaw, William L. Horne, Edward T. Jones, Paul Meier, Kenneth S. Nolley, Rebecca M. Pauly, Gene D. Phillips, S.J., Karel Reisz, Judith Bailey Slagle, John C. Tibbetts, and James M. Welsh.

James M. Welsh is Professor of English at Salisbury State University. He is the author of Peter Watkins: A Guide to References and Resources and the editor of Literature/Film Quarterly. John C. Tibbetts is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas. He is the author of The American Theatrical Film: Stages in Development. Welsh and Tibbets are also coeditors of The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Running the Distance
James M. Welsh

2. "Let's Talk about Tony": Interviews with Colleagues (Karel Reisz, Kevin Brownlow, David Watkin, and Angela Allen)
John C. Tibbits and James M. Welsh

3. 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

4. "Greatest Pleasures": A Taste of Honey (1961) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
William L. Horne

5. Novelist verus Filmmaker: Richardson's Adaptations of Faulkner's Sanctuary (1961) and Waugh's Loved One (1965)
Gene D. Phillips

6. Impossible Dreams: Mademoiselle (1966) and The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
Rebecca M. Pauly

7. History Revisited: The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Linda Costanzo Cahir and Stephen Cahir

8. King of Infinite Space: Richardson's Hamlet (1969)
Paul Meier

9. Narrative Voice and "Chorus on the Stage" in Tom Jones (1963)
Judith Bailey Slagle and Robert Holtzclaw

10. Henry Fielding Revisited: Joseph Andrews (1977)
James M. Welsh

11. Reflections on Class: Tom Jones (1963) and Joseph Andrews (1977)
Kenneth S. Nolley

12. Revisiting and Re-Visioning: A Delicate Balance (1973) and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Edward T. Jones

13. American Contexts: A Delicate Balance (1973) to Blue Sky (1990-94)
James M. Welsh and Bruce Hutchinson

A Tony Richardson Filmography

Selected Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

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Film Studies
Popular Culture

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