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Beyond the Epic : The Life and Films of David Lean by Gene D. Phillips is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond the Epic : The Life and Films of David Lean about?
Gene D. Phillips's "Beyong the Epic: The Life & Films of David Lean" comes at a time of renewed interest in David Lean and his films, and puts perhaps the definitive stamp on this filmmaker's achievements. Though it often goes over the same ground as previous books have on Lean--especially the excellent biography by Kevin Brownlow (1996)--Phillips's book has assembled a mass of material from biographical, critical and other sources, including personal interviews with actors, colleagues and filmmakers who knew Lean, and has integrated these materials into an admirable whole, lucidly and painstaikingly evaluating the opus of Lean in its entirety. At last, Phillips offers the Lean devotees--and a broader audience--a remarkable book that places the cinematic achievemnts of David lean into proper perspective, balancing all the elements of a director whose directorial style and methods both attracted and repelled viewers and critics, some of whom still have not accorded Lean the high place he deserves among twentieth century filmmakers. Massive and minutely authenticated, tackling the knottiest problems head on, "Beyond the Epic" redresses critical lapses, and, without being maudlin or w
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- Author
- Gene D. Phillips
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813171555
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- Memoir, Performing Arts, History
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (16 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14