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Œuvres de Dan Auiler
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- Date de naissance
- 1964
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Boerne, Texas
- Lieux de résidence
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Études
- Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 328
- Popularité
- #72,311
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 11
- Langues
- 1
It's a very linear volume, following pre-production, production, post-production, and legacy, with the longest section on the second of these. Frankly, most readers are going to be best served by skim-reading and choosing to focus on certain sections, because the most interesting material tends to show up in a handful of pages: the development of the original book into the early screenplays, the location scouting for a mission with a tower, Kim Novak's thoughts on her grey suit, Jimmy Stewart's notes on an early cut of the film. Only die-hards or quick readers will really want to read all the minutiae; not that it's terribly detailed, but it doesn't always enhance your appreciation of the film - sometimes, especially during the production section, it can just feel like data as opposed to the narrative. Some of the book is a little outmoded, too; I didn't mind the appendix talking to the team behind the 1996 restoration, but that's obviously no longer very relevant.
I don't mean to sound negative about this book: it's exactly the sort of thing I went looking for. I just want potential readers to understand its limitations; pop culture studies, and mainstream literature on films, was very different 20 years ago. This is the perfect sort of book for a teenager or college student who is just getting into the "making of" classic movies; for more advanced readers, it only offers one, specifically production-oriented approach. It does work wonderfully in tandem with Charles Barr's intensely analytical monograph on the film for the BFI Film Classics series, and using selections from both works is proving the perfect solution for me and my students.… (plus d'informations)