The NeverEnding Brief Encounter
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- 14 augustus 2019
- 136 pagina's
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More than seventy years after its release, Brief Encounter continues to occupy a prominent place in the popular imagination. It has spawned theatrical versions and an appalling remake. It features in advertisements for everything from refrigerators to roast beef dinners. It is frequently ‘quoted’ in films and television programmes, and its title pops up in situations where the audience is expected to take the source for granted.
In this book, film scholar Brian McFarlane sets out to investigate the wildly eclectic ways in which Brief Encounter has infiltrated the broader culture. There has always been praise for the acting of Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, but not enough thought has gone into the question of why the painful decision their characters make continues to be so moving. Answering this question takes McFarlane on a journey through film and television, stage plays, novels and advertisements, culminating in a visit to Carnforth Station itself. On the way he hears from people associated with Brief Encounter in different ways, including Johnson’s daughter Lucy, the actress Hayley Mills and the last surviving member of the original cast, Margaret Barton.
Accessible and informed, the book will be of great interest to students and scholars of film, as well as general readers who want to understand Brief Encounter’s astonishingly long life and remarkable cultural legacy.
This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance. It explores the central relationship of the film, where two people who fall unexpectedly in love come to realise that there is more to life than self-gratification. Mores have undoubtedly changed, for better or worse, but that essential moral choice has never lost its power. While acknowledging this, the book goes further in an effort to account for the way the film has passed into the wider culture. People born decades after its first appearance are now adept at picking up references to it, whether a black-and-white scene in a much later film or a passing joke about a bald man in a barber’s shop.
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