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BOOK REVIEWS Brian McFarlane, Real and Reel: The Education of a Film Obsessive and Critic (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012), pp. vi + 187, ISBN 978019085956 (pb), £11.95. Film Studies scholars don't generally write their memoirs, so Brian McFarlane's Real and Reel is an unusual book. McFarlane, modest and self-effacing though he might be, has done more for British cinema history than anyone beyond Rachael Low, and the latter's seven drily erudite volumes could not be more different from McFarlane's celebratory Sixty Voices (1992) and his Autobiography of British Cinema (1997). So it is interesting to find out what led him to his lifelong love affair with British films, the main subject of this short but well-packed memoir. It is a truism much favoured by those who don't like to get their hands sullied by parochial matters that the best British films are those made by outsiders: Losey, Polanski, Kubrick, Skolimowski, Antonioni. Appropriately, then, it's an Australian who makes the strongest case for the artistic and cultural significance of intrinsically British cinema. McFarlane's passion weaned as it is on childhood reading of Picturegoer and Picture Show is more intense than that of most writers (myself included)
Journal of British Cinema and Television – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2014
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