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He was more afraid of death than of anything else. And he died as he thought he would, while the first snows of winter fell.Fahrenheit 451, François Truffaut, 1966, misquoted from Robert Louis Stevenson's The Weir of Hermiston François Truffaut's suggestion, during his interviews with Alfred Hitchcock, that there might be something incompatible between Britain and cinema has had an extraordinarily wide circulation. Charles Barr argues against it in his essay 'Amnesia and Schizophrenia' (Barr 1986); it resonates through Stephen Frears's documentary Typically British (broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995), which ends with Frears declaring 'Bollocks to Truffaut!'; and seems to resurface whenever anyone wants to argue that British cinema is not as boring as people might think. What Truffaut actually says is: isn't there a certain incompatibility between the terms 'cinema' and 'Britain'? This might sound far-fetched, but I get the feeling that there are national characteristics -among them, the English countryside, the subdued way of life, the stolid routine -that are anti-dramatic in a sense. The weather itself is anti-cinematic. Even British humour -that very understatement on which so many

Author

Murphy, Robert (author)

Publisher

Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845458553