Adventures of a Suburban Boy
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Adventures of a Suburban Boy

  1. 321 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Adventures of a Suburban Boy

About this book

John Boorman came of age as a filmmaker in the 1960s--the golden age of world cinema. Then as now, his celebrated films embrace the spirit of the era: challenging authority, questioning accepted morality, and examining the thin line between civilization and savagery. In Adventures of a Suburban Boy, Boorman delves deeply into these themes, applying his subversive sensibility to his life story as well as to some of the most important political and cultural events of the twentieth century. The result is a heady fusion of personal memoir and cinematic study, as a child of the London Blitz becomes the influential director known for films such as Point Blank, Excalibur, Hope and Glory, Deliverance, and The General--discussing the cultural role of the motion picture and the art of filmmaking along the way.
With a vividly depicted supporting cast that includes Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Burt Reynolds, and Cher, among others, this entertaining and witty tour through the life, times, and works of one of the cinema's great practitioners is not only essential for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of Boorman's incredible body of work, but is also indispensable resource for anyone who is fascinated by film's impact on our lives.

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Information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780571216956
eBook ISBN
9781429927659

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Light and Shadow
  4. 1933: Semi-Detached Lives
  5. A Brief Family History
  6. War to the Rescue
  7. Enter God, English and Irish Versions
  8. Breathing the River
  9. 1948: A Turbulent Priest
  10. 1949: Epiphany
  11. 1950: Friends and Lovers
  12. 1951: Auntie Calls
  13. Enter a Scarlet Woman
  14. March 1951: Conscripted
  15. The Case of the Missing Sergeant
  16. 1952: The Blonde and the Dark Lady
  17. Return of the Soldier
  18. 1955: Making News
  19. 1957: Southern Television
  20. 1961: A Barbarian at the Gates
  21. 1965: Catch Us If You Can
  22. 1965: Griffith, Isherwood, Elvis
  23. 1966: Point Blank
  24. 1968: Hell in the Pacific
  25. Enter the Japanese
  26. Ship of Fools
  27. Free Love
  28. Not with a Whimper but a Bang
  29. 1968: Back to LA
  30. 1969: Leo the Last
  31. Marcello Mastroianni
  32. Ireland
  33. The Lord of the Rings
  34. 1970: Deliverance
  35. 1971: Where Spring Spends the Summer
  36. Shooting Deliverance, Shooting the Chatooga
  37. A Hit Movie
  38. 1973 : Zardoz
  39. 1976: The Heretic
  40. 1977: The Mystery of Memory
  41. 1977: Broken Dream
  42. 1978: Excalibur
  43. 1981: Angel
  44. I Hawk My Wares
  45. 1983 : The Emerald Forest
  46. Back to Cannes
  47. 1985: Hope and Glory
  48. 1987: The Academy Awards
  49. Death of a Hero
  50. 1988: Where the Heart Is
  51. Endings
  52. David Lean
  53. Among Trees
  54. by the same author
  55. Index
  56. Copyright Page