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The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson - Three-year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council |
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The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson is a three-year research project, funded by the AHRC, which will re-evaluate Anderson's work and the established public and critical perception of the director. The principal aim is to investigate Anderson's claim to the status of authorship. This will be achieved primarily through the investigation of his private thoughts and his public statements about his work contained in the Lindsay Anderson Archive at the University of Stirling. |
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University of Stirling, 2 - 4 September 2009 .. |
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About Lindsay Anderson Born in India of Scottish parentage in 1923, Lindsay Anderson was one of the most important British film directors of the twentieth century. He began his career making documentary films in the 1950s and was one of the founders of the 'Free Cinema' movement which challenged the established cosy images of British cinema with gritty, realistic dramas and documentaries. Anderson made a string of acclaimed films in the 1960s and 1970s including This Sporting Life, staring Richard Harris and If.... starring Malcolm McDowell. He also had a long and distinguished career as a theatre director working with many of the most important figures of the British stage. In addition he was a respected writer and critic and one of the founders of the influential film journal Sequence in 1947. Anderson died in 1994, aged 71. His last film was the autobiographical documentary Is That All There Is? made for BBC Scotland in 1992. |
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