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Special Issue on Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion

To celebrate the release of Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion, his biopic about American poet Emily Dickinson, we are dedicating a full week to essays on the film and its ties to Davies' previous work. Here you'll find all of our articles on the film.

Gillie Collins on Emily Dickinson's subtle rebellion in A Quiet Passion
Alex Heeney interviews Terence Davies A Quiet Passion
Laura Anne Harris on Cynthia Nixon's performance as Emily Dickinson
Brett Pardy on Davies' controlling, lonely patriarchs and Distant Voices, Still Lives
Alex Heeney on Davies' adaptation of Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea as a memory film

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Davies’ adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea is a memory film with an unreliable narrator

In Terence Davies’ screen adaptation of Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, Davies plunges us into Hester’s memories, nudging us to accept her interpretation of events while providing the necessary evidence to doubt her perspective. This is the sixth and final feature in our Special Issue on Davies’ A Quiet Passion, which you can read in full here.

Listen to us discuss The Deep Blue Sea on the Seventh Row podcast.

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A tyrant and control freak: the patriarch in Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives prefigures the father figures in his later films

In Terence Davies’ films, fathers tend to control the domestic sphere: the abusive patriarch in Distant Voices, Still Lives, based on Davies’ own father, prefigures those of Davies’ later literary adaptations. Editor’s note: This is the fifth feature in our Special Issue on Terence Davies’ A Quiet Passion, which can be read in full here.

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