Films of John Schlesinger
The great historical and economic transformations of the late twentieth-century city are vividly reflected in John Schlesinger's oeuvre. In films of the early sixties 'A Kind of Loving' and 'Billy…
Specifikacia Films of John Schlesinger
The great historical and economic transformations of the late twentieth-century city are vividly reflected in John Schlesinger's oeuvre. In films of the early sixties 'A Kind of Loving' and 'Billy Liar', the city was imagined as industrial and residential, with the characters confronting life on the local and familial level. In 'Darling', 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', films made from 1965 to 1971, the city had become cosmopolitan, ruled over by international finance and riven by class tensions. And in two films of the eighties 'The Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Madame Sousatzka', Schlesinger was emphatic in showing the desperation with which youthful characters struggled to come of age, not in a local urban environment, but in a national and global one. The specific economic and political forces driving these urban changes have been extensively treated in the growing
Films of John Schlesinger
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