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Lost Objects Of Desire : The Performances of Jeremy Irons / Mark Nicholls.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780857454430
  • 9780857454447
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/8092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2598.I685 N53 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Imogen, Narcissism and the Intolerable Idea -- 2 Brideshead Revisited Charles Ryder Drowning in Honey -- 3 The French Lieutenant’s Woman Charles Smithson beyond the Pale and Mike beyond the Run -- 4 Swann in Love Exceptional Feelings -- 5 Dead Ringers The Flight from Strange and Unloved Women -- 6 M. Butterfly René Gallimard and the Flair for Melodrama -- 7 Lolita The Two Basic Laws of Totemism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Summary: This first book-length critical study of Jeremy Irons concentrates on his key performances and acting style. Through the analysis of some of the major screen roles in Irons’s career, such as Brideshead Revisited, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Reversal of Fortune, Swann in Love, Dead Ringers and Lolita, Mark Nicholls identifies a new masculine identity that unites them: an emblematic figure of the 1980s and 1990s presented as an alternative to the action hero or the common man. Using clear explanations of complex theoretical ideas, this book investigates Jeremy Irons’s performances through the lens of sexual inversion and social rebellion, to uncover an entirely original but recognizable screen type.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Imogen, Narcissism and the Intolerable Idea -- 2 Brideshead Revisited Charles Ryder Drowning in Honey -- 3 The French Lieutenant’s Woman Charles Smithson beyond the Pale and Mike beyond the Run -- 4 Swann in Love Exceptional Feelings -- 5 Dead Ringers The Flight from Strange and Unloved Women -- 6 M. Butterfly René Gallimard and the Flair for Melodrama -- 7 Lolita The Two Basic Laws of Totemism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

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This first book-length critical study of Jeremy Irons concentrates on his key performances and acting style. Through the analysis of some of the major screen roles in Irons’s career, such as Brideshead Revisited, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Reversal of Fortune, Swann in Love, Dead Ringers and Lolita, Mark Nicholls identifies a new masculine identity that unites them: an emblematic figure of the 1980s and 1990s presented as an alternative to the action hero or the common man. Using clear explanations of complex theoretical ideas, this book investigates Jeremy Irons’s performances through the lens of sexual inversion and social rebellion, to uncover an entirely original but recognizable screen type.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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