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E-book Gillian Armstrong : Popular, Sensual & Ethical Cinema

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Four minutes into Gillian Armstrong’s last major fi lm, Women He’s Undressed (2015), costume designer Orry-Kelly delivers an unin-terrupted monologue describing the early days in his friendship with Archie Leach/Cary Grant in the years when they fi rst arrived in New York City, before either became famous. Kelly delivers the monologue while seated in a red rowboat on the back of which ‘Kiama’ is painted, the name of the small seaside Australian town where Orry was born. Presented with conviction, the speech introduces key themes of Orry’s courage as a gay man living in Hollywood in the 1930s when gayness was unacceptable, and the story of his escape from small-town Australia. Towards the end of this monologue, Orry picks up the oars and begins to row, but the boat remains motionless because it is on a wooden stage set. Orry, it would seem, isn’t going anywhere.Let me turn to a scene from a fi lm from the very beginning of Armstrong’s working life. Th e third and fi nal fi lm made by Armstrong while a student at Swinburne art school, the eight-minute long experimental fi lm Th e Roof Needs Mowing(1971) relies (like Women He’s Undressed) on absurdist and surreal imagery to communicate with audiences. Th e opening shots show family members silently seated around a breakfast table, vying for the radio. Th e footage speeds up, with the ‘mother’ and adult ‘children’ arriving and departing in fast motion while the ‘father’ remains at the centre of the frame, continuing in regular motion to eat and read the paper. He utt ers what seems a non sequitur: ‘I’ve always had this dream of running away and joining the circus.’1 For the remainder of the short, the man stays stationary in an unmoving rowboat while others speed past in diff erent boats, including the movie’s ‘mother’ and a group of girls in Brownie uniforms. Exactly as in Women He’s Undressed, the man’s boat doesn’t move and at the end of Th e Roof Needs Mowingthe camera pulls back to show the boat is located awkwardly in a small, above-ground swimming pool.

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778.53 ERH g

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London : Edinburgh University Press., 2020

Deskripsi Fisik

201 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781474434331

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778.53

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computer

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online resource

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Cinematography

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