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Informationen zum Autor Amy Raphael has written for all the UK broadsheets and myriad magazines, including The Face, Esquire and the Radio Times. Her first book, Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock was published in 1995 and an updated version, A Seat at the Table: Women on the Frontline of Music, was published in 2019. A Game of Two Halves: Famous Football Fans Meet Their Heroes, with forewords by both Gary Lineker and Raheem Sterling, raised money for UNCHR. She co-wrote Steve Coogan's autobiography Easily Distracted and worked with David Hare on his memoir, The Blue Touch Paper. Her second middle-grade novel, The Ship of Cloud and Stars, will be published in January 2022. Danny Boyle in Conversation with Amy Raphael was published 2013 and Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh was originally published in 2008. Tells about the secrets behind the opening ceremony and the struggles, joys and perseverance needed to direct such films as "Trainspotting", "Slumdog Millionaire", "28 Days Later" and "Shallow Grave". Danny Boyle by Amy Raphael tells the story a director of acclaimed cult British films who became an Oscar-winner and the driving force behind the defining cultural moment of 2012, the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games. Zusammenfassung A revelatory career-length biography, produced through interviews with Danny Boyle, in which he talks frankly about the secrets behind the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games as well as the struggles, joys and incredible perseverance needed to direct such films as Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later and Shallow Grave.
