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Brief Encounter

Author : Richard Dyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714685
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounter written by Richard Dyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of it. 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. This reissued edition features original cover artwork by Rania Moudaress and a substantial new foreword that revisits the film and recent readings of it, covering its enduring legacy and adaptation for theatre and television.

Brief Encounters with the Enemy

Author : Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0812993586
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters with the Enemy written by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unnamed American city feeling the effects of a war waged far away and suffering from bad weather is the backdrop for this startling work of fiction. The protagonists are aimless young men going from one blue collar job to the next, or in a few cases, aspiring to middle management. Their everyday struggles--with women, with the morning commute, with a series of cruel bosses--are somehow transformed into storytelling that is both universally resonant and wonderfully uncanny. That is the unsettling, funny, and ultimately heartfelt originality of Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's short fiction, to be at home in a world not quite our own but with many, many lessons to offer us"--

Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction

Author : Judith Kitchen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393351009
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction written by Judith Kitchen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of short literary memoirs, essays, and reflections, many of which were written expressly for this collection. Also available The late Judith Kitchen, editor of the perennially popular anthologies Short Takes, In Short, and In Brief, was greatly influential in recognizing and establishing flash creative nonfiction as a form in its own right. In Brief Encounters, she and writer/editor/actor Dinah Lenney expand this vibrant field with nearly eighty new selections: shorts—as these sharply focused pieces have come to be known— representing an impressive range of voices, perspectives, sensibilities, and forms. Brief Encounters features the work of the emerging and the established—including Stuart Dybek, Roxanne Gay, Eduardo Galeano, Leslie Jamison, and Julian Barnes—arranged by theme to explore the human condition in ways intimate, idiosyncratic, funny, sad, provocative, lyrical, unflinching. From the rant to the rave, the meditation to the polemic, the confession to the valediction, this collection of shorts—this celebration of true and vivid prose—will enlarge your world.

The never-ending Brief Encounter

Author : Brian McFarlane
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526124424
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The never-ending Brief Encounter written by Brian McFarlane and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance. It explores the central relationship of the film, where two people who fall unexpectedly in love come to realise that there is more to life than self-gratification. Mores have undoubtedly changed, for better or worse, but that essential moral choice has never lost its power. While acknowledging this, the book goes further in an effort to account for the way the film has passed into the wider culture. People born decades after its first appearance are now adept at picking up references to it, whether a black-and-white scene in a much later film or a passing joke about a bald man in a barber’s shop.

Brief Encounters

Author : Michelle De Kretser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters written by Michelle De Kretser and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love affairs on the road, passionate holiday flings, disastrous pick ups, erotic encounters... In this seductive collection of stories, 22 authors from around the world write about travel romances. Combining fiction and reportage, this is must-have reading - for everyone who has dreamt of escape with that perfect stranger.

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

Author : Ben Fountain
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061847623
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters with Che Guevara written by Ben Fountain and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award * A National Bestseller “An exceptional story collection.” —New York Times Book Review The well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera—including a disillusioned NGO worker, the wife of a special operations officer, and an obssessed ornithologist—are caught, to both disastrous and hilarious effect, in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. With masterful pacing and a robust sense of the absurd, each story is a self-contained adventure, steeped in the heady mix of tragedy and danger, excitement and hope, that characterizes countries in transition. An intelligent and keenly observed collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevera marks the arrival of a striking and resonant new voice that speaks adeptly to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.

Brief Encounters

Author : Dick Cavett
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805099778
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters written by Dick Cavett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emmy Award-nominated former talk-show host and New York Times columnist draws on his extensive career to share reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons and everyday absurdities.

Brief Encounters

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281079218
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters written by Anthony Kenny and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardinals, directors, dissidents, dons, judges, novelists, philosophers, prime ministers, scientists, world statesmen. . . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Sir Anthony Kenny has encountered some of the most notable and influential leaders of the post-war world. In these brilliantly vivid vignettes Kenny offers telling and often unexpected insights into the achievements, flaws and foibles of sixty public figures - past and present - each of whom has contributed in decisive ways to our political, spiritual and cultural heritage.

Brief Encounter

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350083607
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounter written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noël Coward's Brief Encounter is remembered as one of the most haunting love stories on screen ever. Drawing on the characteristic wit and musicality of Kneehigh, Emma Rice, former Joint Artistic Director of the Company, has adapted Coward's classic 1945 screenplay, and the one-act play Still Life on which it was based, into a richly theatrical, imaginative and vibrant piece of theatre. From an original idea by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, Kneehigh's production received its world premiere in 2008. This edition is published to coincide with the production's run live at the Empire Cinema in London's West End for 2018, co-produced by Steve and Jenny Wiener and The Old Vic. With an updated foreword by Emma Rice. 'Surely the most enchanting work of stagecraft ever inspired by a movie.' Ben Brantley, The New York Times 'Moving, funny, gripping and even at its most inventive, true to the original and its all-English heart' The Times

Brief Encounters

Author : Stephen Bourne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474291341
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters written by Stephen Bourne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, lesbian and gay representation in British cinema escaped the attention of critics and historians. Informative and entertaining, Brief Encounters examines performers, directors and a wide range of films to reveal a cinema more varied, vital and sensuous than we could have imagined. Through a close reading of mid-twentieth century British films, Bourne explores a range of lesbian and gay screen images from movies including Soldiers of the King, Pygmalion, In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes and A Hard Day's Night. In addition, he looks in detail at the ground-breaking Victim and brings together the moving reminiscences of gay men who first saw the film in the hostile climate of 1961, and the reactions of contemporary critics. This fluent chronology of over 150 famous, half-remembered and forgotten films is a testament to the contribution of gays and lesbian to British cinema culture.

Still Life

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573624902
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Still Life written by Noel Coward and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1965 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters: 6 male, 5 female Interior Set One of the Tonight at 8:30 series, a success in London and New York. The movie Brief Encounter was based on this play. In a suburban rail station, Dr. Harvey removes a cinder from Laura's eye and they fall in love. Subsequent weekly meetings over tea, scenes debating respectability or love, and some sentimental moments transpire before they decide they must part forever. He is accepting a faraway post and she must return to a circumspect

Brief Encounters

Author : Emily Coleman
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounters written by Emily Coleman and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Short Takes

Author : Judith Kitchen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393326004
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Short Takes written by Judith Kitchen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invigorating creative nonfiction—short, but never slight—gathered by the co-editor of In Short and In Brief. In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans have of telling our truths. Themes develop and speak to or collide with one another: musings about parents, childhood, sports, weather, war, solitude, nature, loss—and, of course, love. The stellar roster of contributors includes well-known writers—Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, and Terry Tempest Williams—along with Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, Jane Brox, and others whose literary stars are clearly rising. Each short—whether a few paragraphs or reaching 2,000 words, and reflecting almost every way nonfiction can be written—invites us to experience the power of the small to move, persuade, and change us.

Brief Encounter

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472506154
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounter written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm a happily married woman. Or rather I was until a few weeks ago. This is my whole world and it's enough, or rather it was until a few weeks ago. Your heart dances. The world seems strange and new. You want to laugh and skip and fall forever... You are in love. You are in love with the wrong person. Laura, the respectable suburban wife, and Alec, the idealistic, married doctor, meet in a station buffet, fall passionately in love but are doomed never to find fulfilment. David Lean's iconic 1945 movie, Brief Encounter, was written by Noel Coward and was based on one of his one-act plays, Still Life, written a decade earlier. Emma Rice, Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre Company, has adapted this timeless tale of joy and heartache for the stage, interspersing the romantic action with nine Coward ditties.

A Brief Encounter of Two Hearts

Author : Sebastian Mozzicato, M D
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book A Brief Encounter of Two Hearts written by Sebastian Mozzicato, M D and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my many years of psychiatric practice, I have heard all kinds of stories, sad, terrible, cruel and sometimes almost unbelievable. Some stories stay with you because there was a very successful outcome, and others because, no matter what you did to try to help that person, you couldn't. One particular story had an enormous impact on me, perhaps because it was so sad and so tragic, but also because it was so beautiful at the same time.

Brief Encounter

Author : Alec Waugh
Publisher : W.H. Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Brief Encounter written by Alec Waugh and published by W.H. Allen. This book was released on 1975 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316086894
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men written by David Foster Wallace and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.