The godfather /
"Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American filmmaking, and its success as a work of art, as a creative property exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures, as a model for aspiring filmmakers - changed Hollywood forever. Jon Lewis's study of the film...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
British Film Institute : Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Series: | BFI film classics.
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| Summary: | "Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American filmmaking, and its success as a work of art, as a creative property exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures, as a model for aspiring filmmakers - changed Hollywood forever. Jon Lewis's study of the film looks at the significance of The Godfather in Hollywood's dramatic box-office turnaround in the 1970s and offers a critical and historical discussion of The Godfather's place within the crime and gangster film genre. Lewis focuses on the film as a commercial as well as an artistic landmark of American auteur cinema, as a singularly important film in Hollywood studio history and as a brilliant reworked modern genre picture that at once adopts and adapts the gangster film."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 96 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781844572922 (pbk.) 1844572927 (pbk.) |