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Citizen Cannes : the man behind the Cannes Film Festival / Gilles Jacob.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.J265 A3 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacob, Gilles
- Standardized Title:
- Vie passera comme un rêve. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Jacob, Gilles.
- Cannes Film Festival--History.
- Cannes Film Festival.
- Film festivals--France--Cannes--History.
- Film festivals.
- Motion picture industry.
- History.
- France--Cannes.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Man behind the Cannes Film Festival
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Phaidon, 2011.
- Summary:
- For over thirty years, Gilles Jacob has been the soul of the biggest film festival in the world - the Cannes Festival - of which he was elected President in 2000. As witness and champion of the film industry, Jacob describes in Citizen Cannes his journey from that of a Jewish boy saved by a Catholic seminary during World War II, later becoming an entrepreneur and a film critic, and finally an accomplished man who in 1978 was appointed general delegate of the biggest vanity fair in the world.
- Notes:
- "First published in English 2011. ... Published in French by Robert Laffont, 2009. ... Translated by Sarah Robertson"--P. [384].
- "30 years behind the scenes of the world's greatest festival"--Cover.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780714861906
- 0714861901
- OCLC:
- 747686277
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