This interdisciplinary dissertation examines the relationship between exile and collaborative authorship in the films of blacklisted American director Joseph Losey and British-Jewish playwright/screenwriter Harold Pinter. During the 1960s and early 1970s, they collaborated on the celebrated British art-house films The Servant (1963, based on the novella by Robin Maugham), Accident (1967, based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley), and The Go-Between (1971, based on the novel by L.P. Hartley), which won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 1971 Cannes International Film Festival. Both Losey and Pinter commented frequently on the synergistic nature of their successful collaboration, but Anglo-American film scholarship tends to often incorrectly interpret the collaboration as a disproportionate alliance of talent with Losey serving subordinately to the Nobel laureate Pinter's dramatic genius. Moving beyond the auteur critics' emphasis on solitary film authorship, this dissertation reads the Losey and Pinter collaboration through the lens of exilic cinema. Losey and Pinter's shared exilic vision--the synthesis of the exiled blacklistee Losey and the British-Jewish insider-outsider Pinter--interrogated a British culture that, during the 1960s and early 1970s, possessed a new allure due, in large part, to the international popularity of the Beatles, James Bond, and the fashion of designer Mary Quant. Yet this veneer of sex appeal and economic prosperity veiled ongoing class and racial tension, gender inequality, homosexual oppression, and a dissolving Empire. Losey and Pinter foreground these socio-political issues through a complex modernist film aesthetic, which challenged the classical Hollywood and British narrative film structure by bending genre conventions and archetypes in The Servant, and later fusing elements of modernist literature and Continental European art-house cinema, particularly the films of the French Nouvelle Vague and Rive Gauche filmmakers, in Accident and The Go-Between. This dissertation analyzes The Servant, Accident, and The Go-Between against the socio-political climate of Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the creative and economic alliance between the British and Hollywood film industries during this significant filmmaking period. The goal is not only to illustrate that the Losey-Pinter collaboration cannot be placed easily within a single author paradigm, but also that studies of film collaboration need to consider relevant historical, socio-political, and industrial factors.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University. A graduate thesis production book submitted as partial fulfillment for the Master of Fine Arts degree requirements, October 1962.

Le présent travail s’intéresse à une sélection de pièces de Harold Pinter comprises entre Landscape (1968) et Ashes to Ashes (1996) et généralement regroupées par la critique sous le terme « pièces de la mémoire ». Si ces œuvres sont souvent évoquées en raison de leur préoccupation pour le passé et de leur qualité intime et méditative, une approche sous l’angle de la spectralité révèle en quoi elles dépassent une présentation du souvenir afin de mettre en lumière l’impact du passé sur le présent et, de manière plus générale, l’impact des vies sur d’autres vies. Grâce aux diverses manifestations spectrales, l’image du personnage pinterien solitaire et fonctionnant de manière autonome laisse place à une conception du sujet prenant en compte les rapports de dépendance et d’interdépendance le reliant à autrui.Dans une exploration de la dépendance par son négatif, une première partie examine les formes de ruptures instaurées par la spectralité, observant en quoi les fantômes s’inscrivent à première vue comme radicalement autres, à la frontière entre le visible et l’invisible, le passé et le présent, le représentable et l’irreprésentable. Toutefois, une seconde partie analyse en quoi la spectralité ne peut en fait se comprendre que comme profondément liée : ce qui paraissait étranger se révèle familier, l’absence se lit comme deuil et les obstacles à la représentation fonctionnent comme indices de la nature orectique du sujet. Une troisième partie analyse la vulnérabilité révélée au-delà de cette dépendance essentielle : en soulignant la passivité du corps et les échecs de la connaissance, la spectralité ne cesse de mettre en relief les limites du sujet. Pourtant, cette vulnérabilité n’est pas perçue comme paralysante mais au contraire comme le fondement possible d’une éthique dans laquelle le sujet prendrait en charge une responsabilité envers l’autre auquel il est inévitablement lié. / This study focuses on a selection of Harold Pinter’s plays, from Landscape (1968) to Ashes to Ashes (1996), commonly referred to by critics as “memory plays”. Their emphasis on the past and their meditative dimension is often commented on, but tackling these plays through the notion of spectrality reveals how they go beyond a representation of memory to highlight the impact of the past on the present as well as the impact of lives on other lives. The image of the solitary and independent Pinterian character gives way to the vision of a subject taking into account his/her dependence and interdependence and the links uniting him/her to others.The first part explores dependence through its opposite, rupture, looking at how ghosts may seem radically other, in between the visible and the invisible, past and present, representation and the failure of representation. Nevertheless, the second part suggests that spectrality can actually only be understood as necessarily linked: what seemed foreign is revealed as familiar, absence is perceived as loss and the obstacles to representation become clues hinting at the orectic nature of the individual. The third part focuses on the vulnerability revealed beneath dependence: by highlighting the limits of embodiment as well as of rational knowledge, spectrality repeatedly emphasizes the limitations of the subject. However, this vulnerability lays the foundation for an ethics in which the subject would accept to bear responsibility for the other to whom s/he is inevitably related.

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Zugl.: Frankfurt (Main), University, Diss., 1976.

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This thesis endeavours to investigate some of the many ways literary works can engage with the tradition of extremism. In so doing, the author hopes to demonstrate the importance of the tradition as a vessel for understanding the world around and within us. In an effort to show the breadth and endurance of this tradition, this thesis critically analyses selected works by Robert Browning, Harold Pinter, and Frank Bidart in context with various other literary works.

ETSU Patchwork Players will perform a staged reading of Other Places – 3 Plays by Harold Pinter in Studio 205 of Campus Center Building at 7:30 p.m. free of charge. The reading is under the direction of Theatre & Dance faculty member Melissa Shafer and advising of Department of Literature & Language Chair Dr. Katherine Weiss, acting as dramaturg.