Tag: Steve Coogan
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The heightened look of cinematic history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love
The heightened look of cinematic history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love Bruce Bennett, Lancaster University UK. 15/3/14 (This paper was delivered at Screening Style: Costume, Cinema and Performance, a symposium on costume design I organised with Dr Catherine Spooner (Dept. of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster). Details about the event can…
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Masculine Intimacies: Michael Winterbottom’s ‘The Trip’
(An extract from my book, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror. London and New York: Wallflower Press pp.56-62, in which I discuss the 2010 comedy TV series, The Trip. The sequel, The Trip to Italy is currently being screened on BBC2). Masculine intimacies Romantic and intimate relationships in Winterbottom’s films are haunted by loss, failure, rejection and…