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Item Details
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RATCATCHER
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| By: |
Annette Kuhn |
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Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844572064 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844572069 |
| Publisher: |
BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2008 |
| Series: |
BFI Film Classics |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Description: |
The first full-length study of the highly acclaimed film Ratcatcher. An important addition to both Scottish and British cinema, Kuhn discusses the film's poetic style and aesthetics, and includes material from interviews with director Lynne Ramsey. |
| Synopsis: |
Lynne Ramsay's bleak yet beautifully photographed debut unflinchinglyportrays life on a Glasgow housing estate during the 1973 refuse collectors'strike, as seen through the eyes of 12-year-old James Gillespie (William Eadie).After James's friend falls into a canal and drowns, James becomes increasinglywithdrawn. As bags of rubbish pile up and rats move in, James finds solace inhis friendships with Kenny, an odd boy who loves animals, and Margaret Anne,a teenage misfit. On Ratcatcher's release in 1999, Ramsay was hailed as one ofthe finest new talents in world cinema, and the film attracted enormousinternational acclaim.Annette Kuhn's study of the film, the first to offer an overarching account ofRamsay's work, considers the director's background and Ratcatcher alongsideher earlier films. Kuhn traces the film's production history in the context ofScottish media and literary cultures, and its cinematic influences, whileacknowledging the distinctiveness of Ramsay's poetic, visionary style.Kuhn draws on interviews with Ramsay and others involved in the film'sproduction, and combines this with a close reading of selected passages toprovide an in-depth and illuminating analysis of the film's poetic style and itsaesthetics, including an examination of its construction of a child's worldthrough a highly distinctive organisation of cinematic space. |
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96 p. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
BFI Publishing |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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