Brief Encounter (BFI Film Classics)

Synopsis

Brief Encounter (1945), Adapted From Noel Coward's Play Still Life, Is A Classic Of British Cinema - A Tale Of Impossible Love Between A Married Woman And A Man She Meets While Waiting For A Train. Though It's A Film Made By Men, It Is The Woman's Voice We Hear Recounting The Story Of A Small-town Love Affair And Her Renunciation. In His Lucid Analysis Of The Film, Richard Dyer Explores How Its Depiction Of Powerful Feelings Kept Under Wraps Is A Definitive Example Of A Particularly English Style Of Emotional Restraint, But Also How It Spoke To A Gay Audience For Whom This Subject - Forbidden Love Between Ordinary People - Had A Special Resonance. -- Back Cover. 1. A Lovely Film -- 2. Seven Thursdays -- 3. That Feminine Angle -- 4. So English. Richard Dyer. A Bfi Book Published By Palgrave. Includes Bibliographical References (page 79).