Red Roads from Realism: Theorising Relationships between Technique and Theme in the Cinema of Andrea Arnold
| Autor: | Jonathan Murray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Binary opposition
Visual Arts and Performing Arts media_common.quotation_subject 050801 communication & media studies 050109 social psychology Proposition Andrea Arnold Visual arts Movie theater British Cinema 0508 media and communications 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology media_common business.industry Communication 05 social sciences Ambiguity Social realism Aesthetics Performance art Auteur criticism business Realism Theme (narrative) |
| Zdroj: | Murray, J 2016, ' Red Roads from Realism : Theorising relationships between technique and theme in the cinema of Andrea Arnold ', Journal of British Cinema and Television, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 195-213 . https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2016.0307 |
| ISSN: | 1755-1714 1743-4521 |
| DOI: | 10.3366/jbctv.2016.0307 |
| Popis: | Andrea Arnold is one of the most critically discussed and debated of all early twenty-first-century British film-makers. This article starts from the proposition that the unusual amount of attention that Arnold's work has attracted to date stems not only from its undeniable cinematic accomplishment, but also its ambiguous positioning vis-à-vis domestic film and television traditions (primarily social realist ones). Taking Arnold's debut feature Red Road (2006) as a major case study and using Fish Tank (2009) and Wuthering Heights (2011) for comparison, I attempt to respond to that ambiguity by outlining and providing illustrative examples of certain key characteristics, both formal and thematic, of Arnold's feature-length films. These include her typical privileging of the individual and psychological over the collective and social, her pronounced interest in challenging binary oppositions between ideas of the human and the animal, and her highly developed awareness and expressive use of audiovisual form and style. |
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