| Distant Voices, Still Lives 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Farley, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1844571394 ISBN-13: 9781844571390 Publisher: British Film Institute OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2006 Annotation: Set in "a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles," Terence Davies' film "Distant Voices, Still Lives" is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-War working-class childhood. Paul Farley's study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies's unique visual style, blending the spaces--the "short halls, stairways, coal cellars and meter cupboards of northern England"--and sounds--the BBC shipping forecast, a pub sing-a-long, the strains of Vaughan Williams and Britten--of memory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 791.437 |
| Series: BFI Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 4.27" W x 7.5" (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Set in a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles, Terence Davies' film Distant Voices, Still Lives is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-war working-class childhood. This study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies' unique visual style. |
Contributor Bio(s): Farley, Paul: - PAUL FARLEY is the author of three award-winning collections of poetry: The Boy from the Chemist Is Here to See You, The Ice Age, and Tramp in Flames. He lives in North Lancashire, England. |