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CHARLES RYDER DROWNING IN HONEY: Brideshead Revisited with Mark Nicholls

Thursday 15 Sep 2011, 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM

This lecture considers the enduringly popular 1980s television series, Brideshead Revisited and illustrates the way that the feminine and the maternal are represented in the series in architecture and places (Castle Howard, Oxford, Venice), key characters, and in the institution of the Roman Catholic Church itself.

Brideshead Revisited is considered here as an Oedipus and the Sphinx encounter between Charles Ryder (Jeremy Irons) and a series of maternal surrogates ever-threatening to overwhelm him.

MARK NICHOLLS is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught film and television since 1993. He is author of Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob (Pluto/Indiana Uni Press) and a forthcoming book on the films of Jeremy Irons.

Nicholls’ work as a film critic has included regular reviewing and commentary for ABC radio and television and between 2007 and 2009 he was author of The Age EG’s weekly film column, ‘Buff’s Choice.’ Mark is active as a theatre writer, director and producer.

 

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