ReFocus , [2023]
- Title(s):
- ReFocus : the films of Steve McQueen / [edited by] Thomas Austin.
- Additional Title(s):
- Films of Steve McQueen
- Published/Created:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
©2023 - Physical Description:
- x, 226 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNJ18.M1468 A12 2023 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu] - Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16933727
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Working across a range of formats, from video art and gallery installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC, Steve McQueen's prodigious output has been marked by formal ambition and political urgency. This vital collection interrogates his body of work, its political, aesthetic and institutional dimensions, and the interfaces between them. It offers critical insights into McQueen's engagements with race, gender, the body, love and pain, and his abiding self-reflexive interest in the potential of multiple audio-visual forms. The first director to win both the Turner Prize and an Oscar for best picture, McQueen is probably the most important working British film maker. This book explores the controversies as well as the achievements in his stellar career so far. -- Publisher - Subject Terms:
- Great Britain.McQueen, Steve, 1969-McQueen, Steve, 1969- -- Criticism and interpretation.Motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain.Motion picture producers and directors.
- Form/Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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- Introduction: Why Steve McQueen matters / Thomas Austin
- From Exodus to Small Axe: Steve McQueen's filmic world of two halves / Elisabetta Fabrizi
- Interrogating surplus liveness: Girls, Tricky / James Harvey
- Eye witness: memorialising humanity in Steve McQueen's Hunger / Eugene McNamee
- Shame and the City: Subverting neoliberal, New York singleton culture in Shame / Niall Richardson
- If it is to be done, how: considering a Robeson biopic / Shana Redmond
- The Slave narrative and filmic aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and colonial violence / Philip Kaisary
- Working for / working with / working against: Widows and the politics and poetics of genre / Matthias Grotkopp
- Is Small Axe cinema or television and does it matter? Discourses of authorship and production in the publicity for Small Axe / Christine Geraghty
- Small Axe and / as cinematic television / Hannah Andrews
- Love in a cold climate: Lovers Rock / Thomas Austin
- Dub, ecstasy and collective memory in Lovers Rock / Kwame Philips
- The Burden of expectation: where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films? / Patricia Francis
- Boy with Flag and Black British experience in Handsworth Songs and Red, White and Blue / Thomas Austin
- Small Axe is a start: an interview with Bernard Coard