Korda Lawrence Of Arabia

JACKSON, KEVIN. Lawrence of Arabia. Palgrave Macmillan. 2007.. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 9781844571789
Paperback, 127pp., NEW, Lawrence of Arabia is widely considered one of the ten greatest films ever made - though more often by film-goers and film-makers than by critics. This monograph will argue that popular wisdom is correct, and that Lean's film is a unique blend of visionary image-making, narrative power, mythopoetic charm and psychological acuteness; far from being a "Boy's Own Tale", it is one of popular cinema's greatest tragedies, closer to Shakespeare than to "Biggles". This volume is the first since Adrian Turner's (now long out of print, and unobtainable for less than GBP 120) to bring together a critical analysis of the film and an account of its tangled production history - a kind of epic in its own right. It is the first ever to combine these elements with the story of attempts by Alexander Korda and others to bring Lawrence's story to the screen, and to be written from the perspective of someone who is as deeply immersed in the lore of the real-life Lawrence as in the movie. It should appeal both to the film's enormous fan-base and to the exceptionally large number of readers who are fascinated by all aspects of Lawrence and his many careers..

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Lean, David - Silverman, Stephen M.: David Lean. Introduction by Katharine Hepburn. New York, Abrams, 1992. ISBN: 0810925079
*Author's Foreword - Introduction - Beginnings - Noel Coward (In Which We Serve - This Happy Breed - Blithe Spirit) - Milford Junction (Brief Encounter) - Charles Dickens (Great Expectations - Oliver Twist) - Cineguild to Korda (The Passionate Friends - Madeleine - The Sound Barrier) - Charles Laughton (Hobson's Choice) - Venice (Summertime) - Sam Spiegel I (The Bridge on the River Kwai) - Sam Spiegel II (Lawrence of Arabia) - Russia (Doctor Zhivago) - Ireland (Ryan's Daughter) - Oceania - India (A Passage to India) - Joseph Conrad (Nostromo) - Postscript - Exit Music - Academy Awards - Filmography - Selected Bibliography - Index - Photograph Credits - Acknowledgments - About the Author. - David Lean (1908-1991), British Film director. - Mint copy* **215 Seiten auf Kunstdruckpapier mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen Fotos. Farbig illustriertes OPaperback mit Rücken- und Deckelbeschriftung. Rücken gleichmäßig verblichen. Frisches Exemplar**

Updated paperback Edition. 4°. 215 pages on art paper with numerous (some coloured) photographs. Illustrated original paperback with spine- and cover-lettering. Spine bleached.

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