Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) EuroArts Music International

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Infobase, film distributor.

EuroArts Music International GmbH

Series:

A Film and Its Era

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Mass media--Study and teaching.

Mass media.

Genre:

Internet videos

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (52 min., 53 sec)) sound, color

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2018

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : EuroArts Music International, [2008]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned

System Details:

Streaming video file

System requirements: FOD playback platform

video file

Summary:

Inspired by the life of T. E. Lawrence and his autobiography The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, David Lean's film tells the epic story of the English intelligence officer who led the Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire between 1916 and 1918. At the end of the 1950s, Britain and France went through a painful process of decolonization, while Pan-Arab nationalism triumphed in the entire Arab world. Five years after the Suez Crisis, the film is a sort of proud and nostalgic counterpoint that tells the painful epic of the British "midwife" to Arab nationalism. Lawrence, who would later take a very active part in post-war negotiations, helped establish the three Arabic kingdoms of Saudi Arabia, Transjordan, and Iraq. David Lean, together with his screenwriter, the pacifist playwright Robert Bolt, depicted Lawrence as a rebel against his own general staff but also a man devoured by war and consumed by remorse-almost a model of the "wild youth" who do not respect the establishment and upset the world of literature, theater, film, and music. David Lean's recipe includes majestic landscapes as the main star of the film, long panorama shots, protagonists with extreme and torn personalities, and haunting music. Omar Sharif, the superstar of Egyptian cinema, appears alongside Peter O'Toole as Lawrence to become the only Egyptian movie star to make it to international fame to this date. In 1963, Lawrence of Arabia was nominated for 10 Oscars, of which it won 7

Contents:

Desert Shoot (1:53); David Lean's Background (4:06); Real Lawrence of Arabia (3:20); "Lawrence of Arabia" Time Period (2:57); Collaboration (3:21); Film Casting: O'Toole (3:06); Film Casting: Sharif (4:18); Changing Arab History (2:06); "Lawrence of Arabia": Shoot (4:46); Homosexuality? (4:19); Directorial Style (3:00); Sam Spiegel (6:01); Premiere and Aftermath (7:28); Credits: Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) (1:15);

Notes:

Originally released by EuroArts Music International, 2008

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 24, 2018

Title from distributor's description

OCLC:

1090003911

Publisher Number:

162980 Infobase

[162957]s Infobase

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license