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Title Shane Meadows : critical essays / edited by Martin Fradley, Sarah Godfrey and Melanie Williams
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)
Contents Introduction: Shane's world / Martin Fradley, Sarah Godfrey and Melanie Williams -- Structure and agency: Shane Meadows and the new regional production sectors / Jack Newsinger -- Twenty-first-century social realism: Shane Meadows and new British realism / Dave Forrest -- 'Al Fresco? that's up yer anus, innit?': Shane Meadows and the politics of abjection / Martin Fradley -- No more heroes: the politics of marginality and disenchantment in TwentyFourSeven and This is England / Jill Steans -- 'Now I'm The Monster': remembering, repeating and working through in Dead Man's Shoes and TwentyFourSeven / Paul Elliott -- 'An object of indecipherable bastardry -- a true monster': homosociality, homoeroticism and generic hybridity in Dead Man's Shoes / Clair Schwarz -- A message to you, Maggie: 1980s skinhead subculture and music in This Is England / Tim Snelson and Emma Sutton -- Changing spaces of 'Englishness': psychogeography and spatial practices in This is England and Somers Town / Sarah N. Petrovic -- 'Shane, don't film this bit': comedy and performance in Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee / Brett Mills -- 'Them over there': motherhood and marginality in Shane Meadows' films / Louise FitzGerald and Sarah Godfrey -- 'What do you think makes a bad dad?': Shane Meadows and fatherhood / Martin Fradley and Sean Kingston -- Is this England '86 and '88? memory, haunting and return through television seriality / David Rolinson and Faye Woods -- After laughter comes tears: passion and redemption in This is England '88 / Robert Murphy
Summary Explores the full range of Meadows' work, from local D.I.Y. media to international festival acclaim. 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. Key Features. The first book-length study of the work of Shane Meadows, a film-maker who has a devoted and passionate fan-base as well as a high standing among scholars of recent British film. Covers the full range of his work from its origins in the 1990s to its latest developments. The format of edited collection enables the book to contain a variety of perspectives and approaches to the film-maker's work. A substantial introduction will be provided by the co-editors of the book, offering an overview of Meadows and his place within British cinema culture. Equal attention paid to the formal qualities and themes of Meadows' individual films and the social/historical context of his films
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Meadows, Shane, 1972- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Meadows, Shane, 1972- fast
Meadows, Shane 1972- gnd
Subject PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Film
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Fradley, Martin.
Godfrey, Sarah, 1975-
Williams, Melanie, 1974-
LC no. 2013443664
ISBN 9780748676408
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0748676392
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