Icons in the Fire: The Rise And Fall of Practically Everybody in the British Film Industry 1984-2000: The Decline and Fall of Almost Everybody in the British Film Industry - Softcover

Walker, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075286484X ISBN 13: 9780752864846

Verlag: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, The Full Monty, Bridget Jones’ Diary?all these box-office hits were made in Britain, and yet none were financed by British money. In this final volume of his trilogy, Alexander Walker gives us the inside story of the British film industry from 1984 to 2000. He tackles questions like why a nation that produces actors of the caliber of Kenneth Branagh, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Emma Thompson, as well as directors like Anthony Minghella, Sam Mendes, and Stephen Frears, cannot sustain a native film industry.

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Alexander Walker is the author of over twenty books about the cinema and its stars, including bestselling biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers and Audrey Hepburn. He has also written standard works on the coming of the Talkies, a monograph on Stanley Kubrick, and the fullest account to date of the British film industr from 1960 to 1985. He has been the London "Evening Standard's" influential film critic since 1960 and has been named "Critic of the Year" three times in the British Press Awards. A prolific broadcaster on television and radio, he wrote and narrated four series of "Film Star" for the BBC. Alexander Walker was born in Ireland, and educated there, on the Continent and in the United States.

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• Verlag: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 075286484X
• ISBN 13: 9780752864846
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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