- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Dedication
- Introduction: Sounding Liverpool
- 1 George Garrett, Merseyside Labour and the Influence of the United States
- 2 ‘No Struggle but the Home’: James Hanley's <i>The Furys</i>
- 3 Paradise Street Blues: Malcolm Lowry's Liverpool
- 4 ‘Unhomely Moments’
- 5 A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell
- 6 The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies
- 7 ‘Every Time a Thing is Possessed, It Vanishes’: The Poetry of Brian Patten
- 8 Finding a Rhyme for Alphabet Soup: An Interview with Roger McGough
- 9 Rewriting the Narrative: Liverpool Women Writers
- 10 Jumping Off: An Interview with Linda Grant
- 11 Ramsey Campbell's Haunted Liverpool
- 12 ‘We Are a City That Just Likes to Talk’: An Interview with Alan Bleasdale
- 13 ‘Culture Is Ordinary’: The Legacy of the Scottie Road and Liverpool 8 Writer
- 14 ‘I've Got a Theory about Scousers’: Jimmy McGovern and Lynda La Plante
- 15 Manners, Mores and Musicality: An Interview with Willy Russell
- 16 Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting from the Beatles to the Zutons
- 17 Putting Down Roots: an Interview with Levi Tafari
- 18 ‘Out of Transformations’: Liverpool Poetry in the Twenty-first Century
The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies
The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies
- Chapter:
- (p.105) 6 The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies
- Source:
- Writing Liverpool
- Author(s):
Michael Murphy
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter presents an interview with film maker Terence Davies, conducted on 8 May 2006 at Kettners Restaurant, Soho. Davies was born in Liverpool in 1945 and grew up in a working-class Catholic family. The films With Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992) marked Davies out as the most important and distinctive British film-maker since Michael Powell. He subsequently adapted and directed two novels by American authors: John Kennedy Toole's The Neon Bible (1995), and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (2000).
Keywords: British film makers, screenwriters, With Distant Voices, Long Day Closes
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Dedication
- Introduction: Sounding Liverpool
- 1 George Garrett, Merseyside Labour and the Influence of the United States
- 2 ‘No Struggle but the Home’: James Hanley's <i>The Furys</i>
- 3 Paradise Street Blues: Malcolm Lowry's Liverpool
- 4 ‘Unhomely Moments’
- 5 A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell
- 6 The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies
- 7 ‘Every Time a Thing is Possessed, It Vanishes’: The Poetry of Brian Patten
- 8 Finding a Rhyme for Alphabet Soup: An Interview with Roger McGough
- 9 Rewriting the Narrative: Liverpool Women Writers
- 10 Jumping Off: An Interview with Linda Grant
- 11 Ramsey Campbell's Haunted Liverpool
- 12 ‘We Are a City That Just Likes to Talk’: An Interview with Alan Bleasdale
- 13 ‘Culture Is Ordinary’: The Legacy of the Scottie Road and Liverpool 8 Writer
- 14 ‘I've Got a Theory about Scousers’: Jimmy McGovern and Lynda La Plante
- 15 Manners, Mores and Musicality: An Interview with Willy Russell
- 16 Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting from the Beatles to the Zutons
- 17 Putting Down Roots: an Interview with Levi Tafari
- 18 ‘Out of Transformations’: Liverpool Poetry in the Twenty-first Century
