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Glossing with graininess: cross occupations in postwar British film and architecture
This piece uses an anthropological definition of pollution taboos to initiate an investigation of common themes in post-war British film and architecture. It focuses on the fate of two rival architectural aesthetics, the picturesque and Brutalism, drawing parallels with the heyday of the Ealing studio and its eclipse by British New Wave cinema. The first part deals with the political and social circumstances underlying the adoption of Brutalism as the style of clarity and honesty, in particular in the context of the postwar fuzziness in definitions of national boundary and identity. The second part takes up this theme to consider the aesthetic kinship between post-war film and architecture. The article concludes by characterising Brutalism as a kind of Angry Young Architecture. It explicitly questions the possibilities of an equivalence in the social morality of architecture and film.
Glossing with graininess: cross occupations in postwar British film and architecture
This piece uses an anthropological definition of pollution taboos to initiate an investigation of common themes in post-war British film and architecture. It focuses on the fate of two rival architectural aesthetics, the picturesque and Brutalism, drawing parallels with the heyday of the Ealing studio and its eclipse by British New Wave cinema. The first part deals with the political and social circumstances underlying the adoption of Brutalism as the style of clarity and honesty, in particular in the context of the postwar fuzziness in definitions of national boundary and identity. The second part takes up this theme to consider the aesthetic kinship between post-war film and architecture. The article concludes by characterising Brutalism as a kind of Angry Young Architecture. It explicitly questions the possibilities of an equivalence in the social morality of architecture and film.
Glossing with graininess: cross occupations in postwar British film and architecture
Shonfield, Katherine (author)
The Journal of Architecture ; 3 ; 355-375
1998-01-01
21 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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