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Author_Colin Gardner
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Joseph Losey
Marxism
Modernism
political commitment
progressive realism
public tolerance
Soviet ideological model
Stalin's policies
tax exile
tax problems
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- ISBN 9780719067839
- Weight: 381g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2004
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality.
Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara
