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ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen: (ReFocus: The International Directors Series)


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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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why Steve McQueen matters - Thomas Austin Part One 1. From Exodus to Small Axe: Steve McQueen’s filmic world of two halves - Elisabetta Fabrizi 2. Interrogating surplus liveness: Girls, Tricky - James Harvey 3. Eye witness: memorialising humanity in Steve McQueen’s Hunger - Eugene McNamee 4. Shame and the City: Subverting neoliberal, New York singleton culture in Shame - Niall Richardson 5. If it is to be done, how: considering a Robeson biopic - Shana Redmond 6. The Slave narrative and filmic aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and colonial violence - Philip Kaisary 7. Working for / working with / working against: Widows and the politics and poetics of genre - Matthias Grotkopp Part Two 8. Is Small Axe cinema or television and does it matter? Discourses of authorship and production in the publicity for Small Axe - Christine Geraghty 9. Small Axe and / as cinematic television - Hannah Andrews 10. Love in a cold climate: Lovers Rock - Thomas Austin 11. Dub, ecstasy and collective memory in Lovers Rock - Kwame Philips 12. The Burden of expectation: where are the women in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films? - Patricia Francis 13. Boy with Flag and Black British experience in Handsworth Songs and Red, White and Blue - Thomas Austin 14. Small Axe is a start: an interview with Bernard Coard

About the Author :
Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023); and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020).

Review :
This book shines a spotlight on the visual brilliance of Steve McQueen's films. Backed by original research that blends textual analysis with socio-cultural exploration, each chapter offers insights into how McQueen has navigated diverse mediums, aesthetics, and politics. A primary reference point for those interested in the significance of McQueen in contemporary art and culture.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781399510936
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: ReFocus: The International Directors Series
  • ISBN-10: 1399510932
  • Publisher Date: 17 Oct 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 156 mm


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