Brief Encounter, EPUB eBook

Brief Encounter EPUB

Part of the BFI Film Classics series

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Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema a tale of impossible love between a married woman and a man she meets while waiting for a train. Though it's a film made by men, it is the woman's voice we hear recounting the story of a small-town love affair and her renunciation of it.

In his lucid analysis of the film, Richard Dyer explores how its depiction of powerful feelings kept under wraps is a definitive example of a particularly English style of emotional restraint, but also how it spoke to a gay audience for whom this subject forbidden love between ordinary people had a special resonance.

This reissued edition features original cover artwork by Rania Moudaress and a substantial new foreword that revisits the film and recent readings of it, covering its enduring legacy and adaptation for theatre and television.

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  • Format:EPUB
  • Pages:80 pages
  • Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
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  • ISBN:9781838714680
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  • Format:EPUB
  • Pages:80 pages
  • Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9781838714680