- Hardcover: 199 pages
- Publisher: BFI Publishing (19 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0851709826
- ISBN-13: 978-0851709826
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 17.7 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,359,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ivor Novello's lasting influence on film, theatre and music extends far beyond the music awards with which he has become synonymous. A giant of the early twentieth-century stage and screen, Novello was unrivalled in popularity and hailed as an 'ambassador of the British Film' starring in such clasics as The Rat, Downhill and The Lodger. In Ivor Novello: Screen Idol, Michael Williams examines how British film magazines shaped his star persona, while classical Greek imagery and myth informed his iconography. This study broadens the scope of star studies, examining Novello in relation to a number of issues, including the trauma of World War I, gender and sexuality, and the development of British silent films. Through an exploration of the screen idol's associations with romance, glamour and sentimentalism, this first major study provides a fascinating insight into 'British Cinema's Valentino' and one of its first iconic figures. The Ivor Novello that emerges is a modern, paradoxical and disturbing product of his time.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Ivor Novello- star -myth, fact and legend,
This review is from: Ivor Novello: Screen Idol (Hardcover)
One cannot help but be fascinated by this book and by the subject matter which is of course Ivor Novello. Having read numerous biographies about his life and having also had the pleasure of being able to watch him on the screen, it is interesting to once again read another writer's viewpoint on the life and enigma that was Ivor Novello. Ivor the star, Ivor the playright, Ivor the lover, Ivor the choreographer, Ivor the musician, Ivor the gastronome of art and beauty. Somehow i felt that all these different facets were super-imposed and it is difficult to decipher where David Davies starts and Ivor ends. I know of his birth, his life time achievements and of his untimely death at arelatively early age, but i found it more difficult to find information about Ivor the person as opposed to Ivor the Idol. All in all, a well written book, that deals objectively with phenomenom that was and will always remain Ivor Novello. However apart from the Novello awards (held in the UK) Ivor Novello is practically forgotten to those of us in my generation, (aged 40 and under)which is extremely sad. From what i have read and learn't about Ivor Novello, his talent was a rare and beautiful thing (as he himself appeared to be) and could put many latter day so called celebrities to shame. Bless you Ivor. May the gentle world you created go on to immortality.
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An Exegetic Study of Novello's Liminal Performativity,
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This review is from: Ivor Novello: Screen Idol (Hardcover)
If you're interested in Novello there's plenty of fascinating food for thought here, but don't expect a biography. It focusses on the worldwide smash hit 'Keep The Home Fires Burning' and on Novello's early silent films. Williams's thesis (which is very much what this is, in every sense, hence the need to put up with jargon like that in the title of this review) is that the two are linked via associations with the 'lost generation' of the First World War, and all kinds of themes, from shell shock to Vorticism, are examined in support of this. You get some idea of the fascination Novello held for the immediate post-War generation, but the book stops with the talkies, let alone the musical plays which he was so famous for in the 1930s and 1940s.
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