The Bill Douglas Trilogy ( My Childhood , 1972; My Ain Folk , 1973; My Way Home , 1978)

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  • Santos Zunzunegui Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.22.22922

Keywords:

British cinema, autobiographical cinema, film trilogies, cinema and childhood.

Abstract

A fundamental piece of British cinema in the seventies of the last century and quite unappreciated in his country for a long time, Bill Douglas’ trilogy converts the director’s harsh childhood and adolescence into everlasting images through an exercise in which, in the wake of Chekhov, memory is filtered through a sieve which holds only the essential for recollection. The trilogy is compounded by three great little films that provide us a journey through a sensitivity expressed in an alchemical art of the image in which a terrible family and social experience coalesces and is transmuted with intensity, simplicity and violence.

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Author Biography

Santos Zunzunegui, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)

Santos Zunzunegui, MA degree in Economics from the University of Deusto and PhD in Communication from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), is Professor Emeritus of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the latter institution. He has been a visiting professor at various European and American universities (Caracas, Buenos Aires, Utah, Geneva, Siena, Paris III and l’École Normale Supérieure, among others). He has contributed to several specialised magazines (La Mirada, Contracampo, Zer, Caimán. Cuadernos de cine) and has published extensively on semiotics, image theory, museum studies, film theory and history and Spanish cinema. Among his recent publications, Metamorfosi dello sguardo (2011), Lo viejo y lo nuevo (2012), Bajo el signo de la melancolía (2017) and Ver para creer (2019).

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Dick, Eddie, Noble, Andrew y Petrie, Duncan (eds.), Bill Douglas: A Lanternist’s Account, Londres, BFI, 1993.

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Published

2021-12-30

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Zunzunegui, S. (2021). The Bill Douglas Trilogy (<em>My Childhood</em>, 1972; <em>My Ain Folk</em>, 1973; <em>My Way Home</em>, 1978). EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 22, 3–25. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.22.22922
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Vol. 22 (2021)

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