Lion That Lost Its Way - And Other Cautionary Tales of the Show Business Jungle

Informationen zum Autor Sydney Box (1907-1983) had a varied career in the film industry, which included work on a number of significant productions including The Astonished Heart, The Beachcomber, and The Seventh Veil. Andrew Spicer is a Reader in Cultural History in the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England. Klappentext Between 1940 and 1967 Sydney Box made over 60 feature films and over 100 documentaries, including The Seventh Veil (1945), which earned him an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. In this candid and witty autobiography, Box provides fascinating and illuminating insights into the working of the British film industry. It covers the whole of Box's varied career in British cinema over the period 1940-65, as well as his earlier career as a writer and his later role as an impresario. This memoir also contains many perceptive portraits of those he worked with, including Dylan Thomas, No l Coward, W. Somerset Maugham, the Duke of Windsor, J. Arthur Rank, Leslie Caron, Alec Guinness and George Bernard Shaw. Box's memoir is supplemented by 16 photos and an introduction and notes from film scholar Andrew Spicer, who clarifies any obscurities and assesses Box's significance to the British film industry.

Product details

• Authors: Sydney Box
• Assisted by: Andrew Spicer (Editor), Professor Andrew Spicer (Editor)
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2005
• EAN: 9780810856776
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-5677-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series; Filmmakers; The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series; Scarecrow Filmmakers; Filmmakers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV