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Making a Meal of It : Writing about Film.

For more than forty years, readers of The Age newspaper have learned about the latest films through the interpretations and judgements of Brian McFarlane, now himself a Melbourne institution of sorts. Over that time McFarlane's reviews of and articles on film have also featured in Australian Bo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McFarlane, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Melbourne : Monash University Publishing, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro; Dedication; Title Page; Imprint and Copyright Information; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Starters; Film Reviews; 1. My Brilliant Career; 2. Nijinsky; 3. Gallipoli; 4. 84 Charing Cross Road; 5. Hope and Glory; 6. Comrades; 7. The Whales of August; 8. There's a Lot Going On in Australia: Baz Luhrmann's Claim to the Epic; 9. Shakespeare's Brave New World and Julie Taymor's Tempest; 10. The Odd Couple: Language and Life Lessons in The King's Speech; 11. Cloudstreet anew; 12. The Filmmaker as Adaptor: Fred Schepisi Takes On Patrick White in The Eye of the Storm. 
505 8 |a 13. A Tale of Two Terences: The Deep Blue Sea14. Much Ado About Nothing: 'Oh, what a merry war'; 15. Shuttlecock: What Maisie Knew; 16. All That Glitters ... The Great Gatsby; 17. No Surrender: Suffragette; 18. Taking the Plunge: The Water Diviner; 19. Sunset Song; Book Reviews; 20. Ealing Studios; 21. Days of Their Lives; 22. Some Kind of a Man: Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life; 23. Conjuring the Rebel without a Pause: The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean. 
505 8 |a 24. A Cinema Torpid But Not Terminal: Icons in the Fire: The Decline and Fall of Almost Everybody in the British Film Industry 1984-200025. Flaunting Your Perfections: The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story; 26. Hepburn Springs Eternal: Kate; 27. A Poignant Tale Worth Playing Again: Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography; 28. Australian Screen Classics: Alvin Purple; 29. I Peed on Fellini: Recollections of a Life in Film; 30. The Spellbinder: God of Speed; 31. 'He really was a contender': Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando. 
505 8 |a 32. Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema33. 'Mommie dearest' Just One Role Among Many: Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford; 34. One Man in His Time: John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star; 35. Out of the Dark: I Found It at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile; 36. Routes of Passage; 37. John Wayne: The Life and Legend; 38. The Trouble with Ackroyd: Alfred Hitchcock; Part II: Mains; 39. The Biography Industry: Creatures Great and Mostly Small; 40. Local/Global: The Bank and Lantana; 41. Mothers: Some Kids do 'ave 'em; 42. Portraits in Celluloid. 
505 8 |a 43. Shooting Minds44. Size Doesn't Matter: Big Stupid Films; 45. Country Towns in Australian Films: Trap or Comfort Zone?; 46. From Rock of Ages to Rock 'n' Roll; 47. Softly and Tenderly ... ; 48. Finding Ourselves in Australian Films; 49. A Curmudgeon's Canon: Random Thoughts on Summer Heights High, The Office and Other Nasty Pleasures; 50. How Weird Does this Mob Still Seem?; 51. Kath & Kimderella: From Box to Multiplex; 52. The Voice of a Generation; Part III: Afters -- or Just Deserts; 53. A Gifted, Trenchant Friend: Lindsay Anderson; 54. Who is Lance Comfort? 
500 |a 55. Jill Esmond Olivier: The First Wife. 
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