Joseph Losey

by Colin Gardner

Book Overview

The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719067839
• ISBN13: 9780719067839
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"