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Rating: Summary: A Film Well-Remembered Review: Jeffrey Richards is one of the best writers on British film, and he has done another fine job with this book. In a short space he has traced the history of the Titanic sinking in history, with a strong focus on the best film of the bunch, the British "A Night to Remember."Richards traces Titantic films pre-"Night" and post-"Night," showing how films of this disaster reflect how people thought of the British. As for the film itself, he gives a very interesting career overview of the director, Roy Ward Baker, and sets the film in the British tradition of realism that became the dominant film style in that country during and after WWII. He sees "Night" as the end of that tradition. Warning: Mr. Richards states his opinions very strongly, and he gives short shift to non-realistic British films and current Hollywood attitudes (as exemplified in the 1997 film Titanic.) These opinions might bother some people, but they don't take away from the quality of this book, which is very informative and highly readable.
Rating: Summary: A Film Well-Remembered Review: Jeffrey Richards is one of the best writers on British film, and he has done another fine job with this book. In a short space he has traced the history of the Titanic sinking in history, with a strong focus on the best film of the bunch, the British "A Night to Remember." Richards traces Titantic films pre-"Night" and post-"Night," showing how films of this disaster reflect how people thought of the British. As for the film itself, he gives a very interesting career overview of the director, Roy Ward Baker, and sets the film in the British tradition of realism that became the dominant film style in that country during and after WWII. He sees "Night" as the end of that tradition. Warning: Mr. Richards states his opinions very strongly, and he gives short shift to non-realistic British films and current Hollywood attitudes (as exemplified in the 1997 film Titanic.) These opinions might bother some people, but they don't take away from the quality of this book, which is very informative and highly readable.
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