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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Emmet Long , Janet MaslinPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780520249998ISBN 10: 0520249992 Pages: 350 Publication Date: 11 December 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsSetting the Scene The Early Years Documentaries, 1952--1972 Venice: Theme and Variations The Sword and the Flute The Delhi Way Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization FEATURE FILMS India The Householder Shakespeare Wallah The Guru Bombay Talkie Autobiography of a Princess Hullabaloo over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures Heat and Dust America Savages The Wild Party Roseland The Europeans The Five Forty-eight Jane Austen in Manhattan The Bostonians Slaves of New York Mr. and Mrs. Bridge England A Room with a View Maurice Howards End The Remains of the Day The Golden Bowl France Quartet Jefferson in Paris Surviving Picasso A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Le Divorce List of Illustrations IndexReviewsIvory is a robust and intelligent man, interested in all sorts of things and a good observer of what goes on around him. - The Times This series of conversations... informs and engages. Ivory charmingly speaks about a career that includes credits ranging from 'A Room with a View' to 'Surviving Picasso.' He offers insight into his technique and artistic approach, selection of subject matter, choice of actors, and interactions with associates like producer Ismail Merchant and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.... Illuminating and often humorous. - Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal James Ivory is one of our greatest living directors, and these pages, deliciously poised between diplomacy and indiscretion, brim with his vast experience of every nook and cranny of the film world. Offering precious insights into how the cinematic cultures of Europe, Asia and America, of Arthouse and Hollywood, came to be blended into a ravishingly beautiful body of work, Ivory also draws for us a vivid picture of what it really feels like to put together an independent movie. - Kazuo Ishiguro """Ivory is a robust and intelligent man, interested in all sorts of things and a good observer of what goes on around him."" - The Times ""This series of conversations... informs and engages. Ivory charmingly speaks about a career that includes credits ranging from 'A Room with a View' to 'Surviving Picasso.' He offers insight into his technique and artistic approach, selection of subject matter, choice of actors, and interactions with associates like producer Ismail Merchant and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.... Illuminating and often humorous."" - Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal ""James Ivory is one of our greatest living directors, and these pages, deliciously poised between diplomacy and indiscretion, brim with his vast experience of every nook and cranny of the film world. Offering precious insights into how the cinematic cultures of Europe, Asia and America, of Arthouse and Hollywood, came to be blended into a ravishingly beautiful body of work, Ivory also draws for us a vivid picture of what it really feels like to put together an independent movie."" - Kazuo Ishiguro""" Author InformationRobert Emmet Long has written or edited over forty books that reflect an unusual versatility, ranging from works on Henry James to James Thurber, from the films of Ingmar Bergman to the Broadway musicals of Jerome Robbins. His book The Films of Merchant Ivory (1997) is the standard work on the subject. Janet Maslin is film and book critic for the New York Times. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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