This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance. It explores the central relationship of the film, where two people who fall unexpectedly in love come to realise that there is more to life than self-gratification. Mores have undoubtedly changed, for better or worse, but that essential moral choice has never lost its power. While acknowledging this, the book goes further in an effort to account for the way the film has passed into the wider culture. People born decades after its first appearance are now adept at picking up references to it, whether a black-and-white scene in a much later film or a passing joke about a bald man in a barber’s shop.
- ISBN10 1526124424
- ISBN13 9781526124425
- Publish Date 28 August 2019 (first published 14 August 2019)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 40490
- Language English