<strong>Terence Davies</strong> has made some of the most innovative harrowing and hauntinglylyrical films of the contemporary era. This first ever booklength s... » 

Terence Davies has made some of the most innovative harrowing and hauntinglylyrical films of the contemporary era. This first ever booklength study of hiswork combines detailed analysis of all his films with a persuasive andstimulating investigation of key filmic issues of time and memory identity andselfhood and the nature of literary adaptation as well as a previouslyunpublished interview with Davies himself. The book demonstrates that Daviessfilms successfully subvert traditional division between popular culture andarthouse cinema. Gardner explores not only Daviess debt to social realismthe British Documentary movement and Ealing comedies but equally to theEuropean auteur tradition and to the great Hollywood musicals and melodramasthat continue to inspire him. It provides fresh insight into the centrality ofmusic in Daviess work and into his conviction that film itself is closer tomusic than to any other art form. «