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Brideshead Revisited revisited
Waugh to the knife
in The classic novel
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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526185754.00014
Online Publication Date:
30 Jul 2024
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Granada broadcast Brideshead Revisited as an eleven-part serial across the winter of 1980/1. Brideshead famously caught the conscience of the King of British Theatre, Laurence Olivier, in its net, together with his inevitable regent, John Gielgud, as well as the honorary stepdaughter of both men, Claire Bloom. Evelyn Waugh himself intuited the new significance of hedonistic travel. The television Brideshead candidly wallows in its vast extension to the mass tourism of today. The serial is an architectural education and a celebration of cultivated tourism such as Waugh would have despised. It is extremely charming and, as Anthony Blanche warned us, the charm spots and diseases the art from time to time. It is a meaningless consolation to the millions who watched Brideshead devotedly. It was largely meaningless to Waugh's own readership in 1945 as the poet Henry Reed, reviewing the book, complained at the time.
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The classic novel

From page to screen

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9781526185754
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Manchester University Press
Cover The classic novel
Subjects:
Film, Media and Music
Keywords:
Anthony Blanche; architectural education; Brideshead Revisited; Evelyn Waugh; Laurence Olivier
Page Count:
18
Publisher:
Manchester University Press

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Cover Dance and politics

Dance and politics

Moving beyond boundaries

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Dana Mills

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21 Nov 2016
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Dance has always been a method of self- expression for human beings. This book examines the political power of dance and especially its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Gumboots dancers in the gold mines of South Africa, the One Billion Rising movement using dance to protest against gendered violence, dabkeh in Palestine and dance as protest against human rights abuse in Israel, the Sun Dance within the Native American Crow tribe, the book focuses on the political power of dance and moments in which dance transgresses politics articulated in words. Thus the book seeks ways in which reading political dance as interruption unsettles conceptions of politics and dance.

Cover It’s a London thing

It’s a London thing

How rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city

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Caspar Melville

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21 Nov 2019
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This book discusses the emergence in London of three specific dance music multicultures in the context of the racialised city. Focusing on rare groove, acid house and jungle it places the emergence of these multi-racial music cultures in the context of theories of space and the historical forces which racialised the city in the late 20th century. Based on a wide range of original interviews with cultural producers – DJs, promoters, producers and dancers - undertaken over 20 years, read alongside cultural theory and contemporary accounts, it argues that music and the practices of space around music have been a crucial way in which racial segregation has been challenged and multiculture has emerged in London.

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Tony Garnett

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Stephen Lacey

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19 Jul 2013
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This is a book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home to the ‘must-see’ series in the 1990s and 2000s such as This Life and The Cops, Tony Garnett has produced some of the most important and influential British television drama. This book charts his career from his early days as an actor to his position as executive producer and head of World Productions, focusing on the ways in which he has helped to define the role of the creative producer, shaping the distinctive politics and aesthetics of the drama he has produced, and enabling and facilitating the contributions of others. Garnett's distinctive contribution to the development of a social realist aesthetic is also examined, through the documentary-inspired early single plays to the subversion of genre within popular drama series.