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Britton on Film: The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series)
Britton on Film The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton - Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series Author:Barry Keith Grant For fifteen years before his untimely death, Andrew Britton produced a body of undeniably brilliant film criticism that has been largely ignored within academic circles. Though Britton's writings are extraordinary in their depth and range and are closely attuned to the nuances of the texts they examine, his humanistic approach was at odds with t... more »ypical theory-based film scholarship. Britton on Film demonstrates that Britton's humanism is also his strength, as it presents all of his published writings together for the first time, including Britton's persuasive readings of such important Hollywood films as Meet Me in St. Louis, Spellbound, and Now, Voyager and of key European filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci.« less