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(0)Sam Wasson
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Now in time for the 60th anniversary of the film version ‘Breakfast at Tiffany's’, the New York Times bestseller and first-ever complete account of Audrey Hepburn and the making of the film.
With a cast of characters that includes Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, and Gerald Clarke, this book offers a slice of social history seen through the lens of one of America's most iconic films
The images of Breakfast at Tiffany's are branded into our collective...
2) Fosse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere--from Broadway to 'Billy Jean' to Beyonce's moves in the 'Single ladies' video. Yet in spite of Fosse's deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now, ... cultural historian Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that would spawn The Pajama game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate -- and often hilarious-- history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular. At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word of mouth, astonished crowds packed the ad hoc venue to see its unscripted, interactive, consciousness-raising style. From this unlikely seed grew the Second City,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he founded in San Francisco years before his gargantuan success, when he was only thirty. Through Zoetrope’s experimental, communal utopia, Coppola attempted to reimagine the entire pursuit of moviemaking. Now, more than fifty years later, despite myriad setbacks, the visionary filmmaker’s dream persists, most...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Entre roman noir et enquête, une œuvre fièvreuse dans le Hollywood de 70s!
Chinatown est le Graal du cinéma des années 1970. Sa fin surprenante est la plus célèbre de tout le cinéma américain, et sa dernière réplique, la plus obsédante. Ce livre révèle, pour la première fois, l'incroyable genèse de ce projet.
Sam Wasson nous conte cette histoire mettant en scène des personnages hauts en couleurs, sur fond de mutation spectaculaire...
Author
Language
English
Description
Before “Breakfast at Tiffany's” Audrey Hepburn was still a little-known actress with few film roles to speak of; after it—indeed, because of it-she was one of the world's most famous fashion, style and screen icons. It was this film that matched her with Hubert de Givenchy's "little black dress". Meanwhile, Truman Capote's original novel is itself a modern classic selling huge numbers every year, and its high-living author of perennial interest.
Now,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute?s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today. From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its...
9) Fosse/Verdon
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bob Fosse is a visionary filmmaker and one of theater's most influential choreographers and directors. Gwen Verdon is the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Fosse/Verdon will tell the story of these two brilliant, complicated individuals and the love they shared, the art they created, and the price they paid in the pursuit of greatness.
10) All that jazz
Series
Criterion collection volume 724
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as Joe Gideon, whose exhausting work schedule-mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie at night; and routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk.