George Lucas: A Biography - Rilegato

Baxter, John

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ISBN 10: 0002570092 ISBN 13: 9780002570091

Casa editrice: HarperCollins Entertainment, 1999

Riassunto

The first major biography (since 1983) of the great movie mogul George Lucas, whose marketing techniques have transformed the film business. His new Star Wars trilogy is due to open in 1999.

George Lucas is one of the most innovative bigtime players on the movie scene. His three Star Wars films and the trio featuring the action hero Indiana Jones (all six of which Lucas conceived, produced and co-wrote) comprise the most popular group of films ever made. To finance them, he masterminded a revolutionary redrawing of the financial agreements under which films were produced in Hollywood, snatching away control of funding, intellectual content and the distribution of profits from studios, and placing them in the hands of the film-makers themselves.

Yet Lucas remains (like Stanley Kubrick, the subject of John Baxter’s recent biography) an enigma and a recluse. He has specially built the Skywalker Ranch a long way from Hollywood – a Victorian village community in a redwood forest where he and his friends can work in splendid isolation, free of studio pressure but with the highest technology.

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L'autore:

John Baxter is a film critic, novelist, biographer and broadcaster, whose books on the cinema include The Hollywood Exiles, The Cinema of John Ford, and highly praised biographies of Ken Russell, Fellini, Bunuel, Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick. His biography of WOODY ALLEN was published by HarperCollins in November 1998.

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George Lucas is one of the most innovative bigtime players on the movie scene. His three 'Star Wars' films and the trio featuring the action hero Indiana Jones (all six of which Lucas conceived, produced and co-wrote) comprise the most popular group of films ever made. To finance them, he masterminded a revolutionary redrawing of the financial agreements under which films were produced in Hollywood, snatching away control of funding, intellectual content and the distribution of profits from studios, and placing them in the hands of the film-makers themselves.

Yet Lucas remains (like Stanley Kubrick, the subject of John Baxter’s recent biography) an enigma and a recluse. He has specially built the Skywalker Ranch a long way from Hollywood – a Victorian village community in a redwood forest where he and his friends can work in splendid isolation, free of studio pressure but with the highest technology.

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• Editore: HarperCollins Entertainment
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0002570092
• ISBN 13: 9780002570091
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 464