The pocket essential John Carpenter / Michelle Le Blanc & Colin Odell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Blanc, Michelle.

Contributor:

Odell, Colin.

Series:

Pocket essentials. Film.

Pocket essentials. Film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carpenter, John, 1948---Criticism and interpretation.

Carpenter, John.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Place of Publication:

Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. John Carpenter has been setting trends and exciting audiences for a quarter of a century. His first two features were a double-whammy virtually unparalleled in modern cinema-the urban re-working ofRio Bravo, Assault on Precinct 13,followed by the first and defining slasher movie,Halloween.Since then Carpenter has worked with low and big budgets, directed stars and unknowns, and enjoyed commercial success and suffered critical failure. But he has consistently produced a stream of entertaining, unpretentious movies some of which-particularlyEscape from New YorkandThe Thing-are now regarded as modern classics. In their Pocket Essential to John Carpenter, Michelle le Blanc and Colin Odell examine and analyze every film by this prolific director.

Contents:

JOHN CARPENTER

CONTENTS

1. Intelligent Escapism An Introduction To John Carpenter

2. Attention, Incoming Communication

3. The Shape Of Terror

4. Hollywood Calling

5. Back To Basics

6. Big Budget, Little Budget

7. Pssst, Wanna Buy A Screenplay? Other Projects

8. Where In The World?

The Essential Library.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC:

70768649