Edge of midnight : the life of John Schlesinger / William J. Mann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, William J.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schlesinger, John, 1926-2003.

Schlesinger, John.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 628 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Billboard Books, [2005]

Summary:

John Schlesinger's extraordinary career in cinema, stage, opera, and television spanned half a century. It was, however, his films that made him famous, including such classics as Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Marathon Man, Billy Liar, Darling, and Day of the Locust, to The Falcon and the Snowman, Madame Sousatzka, Pacific Heights, Cold Comfort Farm, Separate Tables, and An Englishman Abroad.

In Edge of Midnight, best-selling author and historian William J. Mann chronicles Schlesinger's life and career, from his early documentary days at the BBC, to his emergence as one of the four Angry Young Men of British film in the 1960s (along with Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, and Tony Richardson) who sought to bring working class issues to the screen, to his Academy Award for the X-rated Midnight Cowboy, to his glittering nights as a Hollywood host, to his death on July 24, 2003, brought on by a massive stroke two years earlier.

Contents:

Prologue, 7 April 1970: "These are truly very exciting times" 1

1 1999: "Find the story" 19

2 1926-1946: "Good at practically nothing" 45

3 1947-1951: "Never anything else" 83

4 1952-1958: "Don't you think it would be better if...?" 114

5 1958-1961: "So intent upon getting the effect" 149

6 1961-1962: "This is a ruse of Richardson's to get rid of me" 173

7 1962-1964: "What's half a loaf?" 202

8 1964-1965: "Plenty of room at the top" 230

9 1965-1967: "Tired of everything mod" 260

10 1967-1969: "Things you see in America" 289

11 1969-1970: "The need to feel for another human being" 326

12 1970-1971: "I can get away with anything now" 345

13 1972-1975: "Waterloo collapsed spectacularly" 382

14 1975-1978: "A rare pang for England" 420

15 1978-1981: "Americans just didn't get the joke" 455

16 1981-1988: "Frightened of extraordinary passions and enthusiasms" 483

17 1986-2000: "Well, of course, he's a queen" 516

Epilogue, 2000-2003: "The one very strongly held belief that I have" 551

Film and Television Productions Directed by John Schlesinger 563

Theater and Opera Productions Directed by John Schlesinger 580.

Notes:

First published: London : Hutchinson, 2004.

Filmography: pages 563-579.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 584-600) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0823083667

OCLC:

58750235