{"product_id":"9781838719449","title":"Performance","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBFI Film Classics\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003ePerformance\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eColin MacCabe\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ Guides \u0026amp; Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirected by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, and starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, \u003ci\u003ePerformance\u003c\/i\u003e was filmed in 1968, but not released until 1970. When its studio backers saw the director's cut, they were so shocked by the film's sexual explicitness and formal radicalism that attempts were made to destroy the negative. In his study of the film, Colin MacCabe draws on extensive interviews with surviving participants to present the definitive history of the making of \u003ci\u003ePerformance\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a new interpretation of its consummate artistry.\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes an afterword reflecting on the film 50 years on, and the reasons for its continuing classic status. \u003ci\u003ePerformance\u003c\/i\u003e's extraordinary power, suggests MacCabe, comes partly from its entrancing portrayal of London in the late 1960s, but primarily from its full scale assault on any notion of normality, not simply at the level of content but also of form. The remarkable ending, when the thriller and the psychodrama merge into one,  means that there is no comfortable resolution to the film's meanings. \u003ci\u003ePerformance\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare narrative film which takes us into the complexity of sound and image without the comforting guarantee of a safe exit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eColin MacCabe\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, Director of the Pitt in London Programme, and Honorary Professor of English at the University of Exeter, UK.   He was formerly Head of Research and Education at the British Film Institute; co-founder of the production company Minerva Pictures, and Chair of the London Consortium which he helped to found in 1995 with Birkbeck, University of London, Tate and the Architectural Association. His publications include, as co-editor with Lee Grieveson, \u003ci\u003eEmpire and Film\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFilm and the End of Empire \u003c\/i\u003e(BFI Publishing, 2011).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28 May 2020\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBritish Film Institute\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781838719449\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e96\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5.92\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332802707596,"sku":"9781838719449","price":16.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_fafeb19b-4fb2-4447-9f17-5f296194cd50.jpg?v=1783606041","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781838719449","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}