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Can I read Earthbound: David Bowie and the Man Who Fell to Earth on EtoBox?
Earthbound: David Bowie and the Man Who Fell to Earth by Compo, Susan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Earthbound: David Bowie and the Man Who Fell to Earth about?
'Before there was Star Wars ... before there was Close Encounters ... there was The Man Who Fell To Earth.' - advertising tag line for 1981 reissue of the film.Earthbound is the first book-length exploration of a true classic of twentieth-century science-fiction cinema, shot under the heavy, ethereal skies of New Mexico by the legendary British director Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie in a role he seemed born for as an extraterrestrial named Thomas Newton who comes to Earth in search of water. Based on a novel by the highly regarded American writer Walter Tevis, this dreamy, distressing, and visionary film resonates even more strongly in the twenty-first century than it did on its original release during the year of the US Bicentennial.Drawing on extensive research and exclusive first-hand interviews with members of the cast and crew, Earthbound begins with a look at Tevis's 1963 novel before moving into a detailed analysis of a film described by its director as 'a sci-fi film without a lot of sci-fi tools' and starring a group of actors - Bowie, Buck Henry, Candy Clark, Rip Torn - later described by one of them (Henry) as 'not a cast but a dinner party.' It also seeks to unc
Who reads Earthbound: David Bowie and the Man Who Fell to Earth?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Compo, Susan
- Publisher
- Jawbone Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (52 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14