Korda

Britain's Movie Mogul

AvCharles Drazin

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

The producer behind such celebrated films as The Four Feathers and The Third Man is one of the most colourful and important figures in the history of the British cinema. This gripping biography tells how with extraordinary ambition, enterprise and showmanship, Alexander Korda established in Britain a film industry that rivalled Hollywood, built Europe's biggest studio, and created world-class stars, including Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh. The biography traces Korda's path from his rural childhood in a remote part of Hungary to a British knighthood. Korda's legacy, it argues, was a film industry that dared to dream on the largest possible scale. But he also exemplified the pattern of boom and bust that dogged the British cinema ever since he first came into the limelight in 1933 with the international success of The Private Life of Henry VIII. To understand his often turbulent career is to gain a profound insight into the nature of the British cinema both then and now.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-05-24
Mått:154 x 232 x 34 mm
Vikt:700 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781848856950

Utforska kategorier

Film inom Kultur
Biografi: konst och underhållning inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

Charles Drazin's previous books include The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s and In Search of The Third Man. He lectures on the cinema at Queen Mary, University of London.

Recensioner i media

'In this thorough and jaunty biography, Drazin gives us a masterly portrait.' - Sunday Times; 'An engrossing exegesis of film-making in inter- war Britain and a rounded portrait of what we'd now call an economic migrant who lived profligately, left others poorer and occasionally and enduringly enriched the screen.' - Evening Standard; 'Wry, ruthless and expertly researched.' - Financial Times; '[Drazin] tells his story well. He has enough weapons in his armoury to destroy a few myths. The result is an intriguing narrative.' - Observer; 'Film history rarely has such a deft touch. As with so much, Korda got lucky.' - Times Literary Supplement; 'Thorough and readable.' - Mail on Sunday; 'An engrossing memoir with a scoop story about the film producer's espionage activities' - Books of the Year, Independent

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsNew Preface1 The Puszta2 Sandor of the River3 Westward Bound4 The Gilded Cage5 ‘Somewhere on the Mediterranean’6 ‘The London Venture’7 Success8 Alexander the Great9 The Foxy Whiskered Gentleman10 The Player11 The Bubble Bursts12 Twenty-Four Hours a Day13 Falling with Style14 Hanging On15 Free!16 The Service17 For King and Country18 A Knight in Hollywood19 Perfect Strangers20 Forward into the Future21 Never Pay Cash22 Auld Lang Syne23 Elsewhere24 A Home At LastNotesSelect BibliographyThe Films of Alexander KordaIndex