The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and InterviewsJames M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts 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 theatre, 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. [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.] |
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Contents
CHAPTER TWO | 23 |
CHAPTER THREE | 49 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 81 |
CHAPTER SIX | 141 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 161 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 177 |
CHAPTER NINE | 189 |
CHAPTER TEN | 207 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 221 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 237 |
A Tony Richardson Filmography | 267 |
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| Title | The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews SUNY Series Cultural Studies i SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews |
| Editors | James M. Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Professor John C Tibbetts |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0791442497, 9780791442494 |
| Length | 297 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism |
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