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Newland, P (2016) "I didn’t think I’d be working on this type of film": Berberian Sound Studio and British Art Film as Alternative Film History. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 13 (2). pp. 262-277. ISSN 1743-4521
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It could be said that the films of the director Peter Strickland are in many ways exemplars of a rich strain of twenty-first-century British art cinema. Like work by Andrea Arnold, Steve McQueen, Jonathan Glazer, Lynne Ramsay, Ben Wheatley and Sam Taylor-Wood, among others, Strickland’s three feature-length films to date are thought-provoking, well-crafted, prestigious, quality productions. But in this article I show that while Strickland’s second feature-length film, Berberian Sound Studio, conforms to some of the commonly held understandings of the key traits of British art cinema ? especially through its specific history of production and exhibition, its characterisation, its narrative structure, and its evidencing of the vision of an auteur ? ultimately it does not sit comfortably within most extant histories of British national cinema or film genre, including art cinema. More than this, though, I argue that in its challenge to such extant critical traditions, Berberian Sound Studio effectively operates as ?art film as alternative film history?. I demonstrate that it does this through the foregrounding of Strickland’s cine-literacy, which notices and in turn foregrounds the historically transnational nature of cinema, and, at the same time, playfully and knowingly disrupts well-established cultural categories and coherent, homogenous histories of cinema.
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Journal of British Cinema and Television. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jbctv.2016.0312 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | art cinema; Berberian Sound Studio; cult; experimental; Peter Strickland; transnational; 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media; 2001 Communication and Media Studies |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR |
| Divisions: | Screen School |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2024 10:54 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2024 10:54 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.3366/jbctv.2016.0312 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24385 |
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