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Waters, Steve 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9265-8122
(2021)
A Life in 16 Films:How Cinema Made a Playwright.
Bloomsbury.
ISBN 9781350205239
Abstract
Steve Waters examines how the very idea of film has defined him as a playwright and a person in this book. Through the the lens of cinema, it provides a cultural and political snapshot of life in Britain from the 2nd part of the 20th century up to the present day. The films spanning almost a century, starting with The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) and moving most recently to Dark Waters (2019), each chapter examines aspects of Waters's journey from his working-class Midlands upbringing to working in professional theatre to living through the Covid epidemic, through the prism of a particular film. From The Wizard of Oz to Code Unknown, from sci-fi to documentary, from queer cinema to world cinema, this honest, comic book offers a view of film as a way of thinking about how we live. In doing so, it illuminates culture and politics in the UK over half a century and provides an intimate insight into drama and writing.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Creative Writing Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2022 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Oct 2022 15:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83058 |
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