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Bezig met laden... Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (editie 2008)door Mark Harris
Informatie over het werkPictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood door Mark Harris
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An in-depth breakdown of the origins, productions, and receptions of each 1967 Oscar nominee. I found it unputdownable. Would love to see a TV adaptation of this, so many stories. Rex Harrison sounds he was a real monster. ( ) One of the most fascinating non-fiction books I've ever read. If you're a cinephile, you can't not read this book. Likewise if you're interested in the cultural changes of the 1960s, it's a sure thing. Harris blends rigorous scholarship, great first hand interviews (inciteful quotes from Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in particular) with the narrative drive of a novel. Harris is a fine writer who mostly compiles interviews here without a wealth of insight into the times. At least certain anecdotes, like the endless nuisance of Rex Harrison's ego and his marriage troubles on the set of DOLITTLE, never get old. Harris does manage some good character insights into Sidney Poitier, a bourgeois bore victim of a historical moment and unique industrial circumstances that trapped him into unsatisfying work, and Mike Nichols, portrayed here as a mostly unlikeable prodigy. A good introduction to research into the New Hollywood era, and possibly a good bridge between better works on the old studio period and the full swing of the '70s.
Harris’s research allows him to raise the ante on just how stupefyingly timid and hidebound the industry had become. The pilot for the sitcom “Bewitched” languished for more than a year because of complaints by ABC’s Southern stations that its adman-loves-witch premise was “a veiled argument for racial intermarriage.” The book is full of these sorts of “Who’d have imagined?” pleasures. Had you known that Doris Day and Ronald Reagan were the early choices to play Mr. and Mrs. Robinson? That “What’s new, pussycat?” was one of Warren Beatty’s signature seduction lines? That Artie Shaw compared reading the script of “Bonnie and Clyde” to “looking in a sewer”? Harris’s decision to track the projects year by year, alternating among them, allows us to so fully engage the filmmakers’ dogged will in the face of setbacks that we find ourselves rooting hard for even “Doctor Dolittle” to work out. “Bonnie and Clyde” may furnish the zippiest narrative: from its conception as a gangster film about, in Robert Benton’s words, “all the things they didn’t show you in a gangster film,” including the way rollicking good fun could turn instantly lethal; to its composition, with Benton and his screenwriting partner, David Newman, working while Flatt and Scruggs played “at full volume on the phonograph”; to its memorable and successful ad campaign. (“They’re Young. They’re in Love. And They Kill People.”) PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
[Explores] the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde-and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever.--From publisher description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)791.43097309045The arts Recreational and performing arts Public performances Film, Radio, and Television Film History, geographic treatment, biography North AmericaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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