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Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker by David Mikics
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
When he made a movie Kubrick was obsessively focused because he had to find a solution to every problem. ... His movies are about mastery that fails. Perfectly controlled schemes get botched through human error or freak accidents, or hijacked by masculine rage. ... Stanley Kubrick asserted total control ...Show more
Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films by Molly Haskell
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Jewish Lives
A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented "Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores t ...Show more
Warner Bros - The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Jewish Lives | Reading Level: very good
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the ...Show more
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired moder ...Show more
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired moder ...Show more