{"product_id":"9780252096549","title":"Terence Davies","description":"Called the most important British filmmaker of his generation, Terence Davies made his reputation with modern classics like \u003cu\u003eDistant Voices, Still Lives\u003c\/u\u003e and \u003cu\u003eThe Long Day Closes\u003c\/u\u003e, personal works exploring his fractured childhood in Liverpool. His idiosyncratic and unorthodox narrative films defy easy categorization; though they would seem to exist within the realms of realism and personal memory cinema, the films lay bare the director's personal pain in a daringly abstract way.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Film critic Michael Koresky explores the unique emotional tenor of Davies' work by focusing on four paradoxes within the director's oeuvre: films that are autobiographical yet fictional; melancholy yet elating; conservative in tone and theme yet radically constructed; and obsessed with the passing of time yet frozen in time and space. Through these contradictions, the films' intricate designs reveal a cumulative, deeply personal meditation on the self. Koresky also analyzes how Davies' ongoing negotiation of--and struggle with--questions of identity related to his past and his homosexuality imbue the details and jarring juxtapositions in his films with a queer sensibility, which is too often overlooked due to the complexity of Davies' work and his unfashionable ambivalence toward his own sexual orientation.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120213246192,"sku":"9780252096549","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780252096549_p0.jpg?v=1763681078","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780252096549","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}