Deux visions du noir : le roman Jack’s Return Home de Ted Lewis et le film Get Carter de Mike Hodges
This article analyses Ted Lewis's novel Jack's Return Home (1970) and its film adaptation, Get Carter (1971) by director and screenwriter Mike Hodges. By studying the context in which the two works were written and the details of their content, I show that Lewis and Hodges each offer a dif...
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2024-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/18071 |
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| Summary: | This article analyses Ted Lewis's novel Jack's Return Home (1970) and its film adaptation, Get Carter (1971) by director and screenwriter Mike Hodges. By studying the context in which the two works were written and the details of their content, I show that Lewis and Hodges each offer a different version of the same storyline. With the story of a London gangster returning home to the North to avenge his brother, Lewis wanted to offer a thriller that was also, fundamentally, a reflection on the two types of destiny that await the sons of working-class people: the proletarian or the hoodlum. Hodges, by choosing to do away with flashbacks and voice-over narration, and by casting Michael Caine in the central role, has created a violent, erotic thriller centred on revenge. But by giving great prominence to the description of Newcastle, he also offered a version of film noir clearly tinged with social realism. In this way, Lewis and Hodges constructed two visions of the film/novel noir that have made their mark on British popular culture. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |