The godfather / Jon Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Jon E., 1961- author.

Series:

BFI film classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Godfather (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : British Film Institute : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

"Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American filmmaking, and its success as a work of art, as a creative property exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures, as a model for aspiring filmmakers - changed Hollywood forever. Jon Lewis's study of the film looks at the significance of The Godfather in Hollywood's dramatic box-office turnaround in the 1970s and offers a critical and historical discussion of The Godfather's place within the crime and gangster film genre. Lewis focuses on the film as a commercial as well as an artistic landmark of American auteur cinema, as a singularly important film in Hollywood studio history and as a brilliant reworked modern genre picture that at once adopts and adapts the gangster film."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 I Believe in America.- 2 I Believe in Hollywood.- 3 I Believe in the Mafia.- Notes.- Credits.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-83871-892-3

1-83871-336-0

1-349-92423-7

OCLC:

1120207993