Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newness is not merely a matter of time but of attitude. Despite the legacy of such rare masters as D. W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein, the vast majority of films a decade ago were little more than pale reflections of the the ater or the novel. The New Cinema has developed a poetry and rhythm all its own. Traditionally, says Cahiers Editor Jean-Louis Comolli, "a film was a form of amusement - a distraction. It told a story. Today, fewer and fewer films aim to distract. They have be come not a means of escape but a means of approaching...
Paving the Way. The growing mass audience has been prepared for change and experiment both by life and art. It has seen-and accepted-the questioning of moral traditions, the demythologizing of ideals, the pulverizing of esthetic principles in abstract painting, atonal music and the experimental novel. Beyond that, oddly enough, younger moviemen credit television with a major role in paving the way for acceptance of the new in films...
When the major novel about the Nazi terror is written, its theme will almost certainly be not physical brutality but moral decay. Night Falls on the City merely anticipates the probability. Some of the animal savagery is there, and the death and suffering, but what is even more shameful is the almost total collapse of human decency in a highly civilized-perhaps overcivilized-society. Author Gainham knows Austria well, and the Viennese victims, fence sitters, Nazi bullyboys, happy collaborators and German overlords are all convincing enough for documentary purposes. Almost predictably, her heroine, a famous actress, has a Jewish husband...
This is a novel that anyone who was in Austria during the war or just after it could have jotted down from ordinary conversation and observation. It captures the slow fading of Austria's old escapist, professional charm before Nazi reality. It details the deportations, the mean spying for the Nazis by willing people of all classes, the fear of speaking openly, the people carted off for no known reason. Through the use of rather contrived plot coincidences, Author Gainham keeps her selected characters in view at all times, or at least until the SS and finally the Russians...
...This novel, by the author of Georgy Girl, deals again with the problems that nonbeautiful people have in finding love. After a lifetime of succumbing to her own prejudices, guarding her emotions, and scrubbing herself as free of the responsibilities of love as her home in Glasgow is of dirt, Maudie Tipstaff sets out at the age of 68 on a round of visits to her three grown children. She wants some sort of contact. But what she finds is the misery, selfishness and isolation that she had inspired in them when they were small...