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This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson. Anderson was a highly influential personality within British cinema, mostly famous for landmark films like This Sporting Life (1963) and If....(1968). Lindsay Anderson Revisited deals primarily with hitherto unexplored aspects of his career: his biographical background in the British upper class, his devoted film criticism, and his angry relationship to contemporary society in general. Thus, the book contains chapters about his childhood in India, his writings about John Ford, his relationship to French star Serge Reggiani, his work on TV in the 1950s, his troubles with the British film establishment, and his gradually emerging preoccupation with being Scottish, not English. Also featured are chapters written by close friends of Anderson, who died in 1994, dwelling on his penchant for controversy and quarrel, but also on his remarkable artistic talent and commitment.

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Author:   Erik Hedling ,  Christophe Dupin
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9781137539427

ISBN 10:   1137539429
Pages:   227
Publication Date:   24 June 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface: Remembering the Past/For the Future: Lindsay Anderson and What Can Be Done in Cinema, Christine Holmlund.- 1. 'Lindsay Anderson's Legacy: An Introduction', Erik Hedling and Christophe Dupin.- 2. 'Just Remembering Lindsay', David Robinson.- 3.- 'Lindsay Anderson: Child of Empire', Karl Magee.- 4.- 'A Kind of Friendship: Lindsay Anderson and John Ford', Charles Barr.- 5. 'Secret People: Anderson and Thorold Dickinson', Robert Murphy.- 6. 'Lindsay Anderson and Serge Reggiani: Writing, Friendship and Directorial Practice', Isabelle Gourdin Sangouard.- 7. 'Notes from Sherwood', Michael Eaton.- 8. 'Lindsay Anderson - The Polish Connection', Bjorn Sorenssen.- 9. 'Lindsay: With a Little Help from his Friends', Charles Drazin.- 10. 'Anderson in America: Transatlantic Satire in the 1960s', Allison Graham.- 11. 'The Auteur vs the Institution: The Tempestuous Relationship between Lindsay Anderson and the BFI, 1949-1994', Christophe Dupin.- 12. 'Theatre, Film and Television: Lindsay Anderson Directs David Storey's In Celebration (1969) and Home (1970)', John Izod.- 13. 'Strange Bedfellows: Lindsay Anderson and Chariots of Fire', Erik Hedling.- 14. 'Lindsay Anderson and Scotland: Identity and the Inveterate Outsider', Duncan Petrie.- 15. 'A Critical Conscience', Paul Ryan.- Notes on Contributors.-

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Erik Hedling is Professor of Film Studies at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of Lindsay Anderson: Maverick Film-Maker (Cassell, 1998). Christophe Dupin is the Senior Administrator of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in Brussels, and a film historian. He produced and curated the BFI's DVD box-set on Free Cinema, of which Lindsay Anderson was the central figure.

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