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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461108403321

Autore

Raw Laurence

Titolo

Merchant-Ivory [[electronic resource] ] : Interviews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2012

ISBN

1-283-62972-0

9786613942173

1-61703-238-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Disciplina

791.430233092

Soggetti

Ivory, James -- Interviews

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927- -- Interviews

Merchant, Ismail -- Interviews

Motion pictures producers and directors -- India -- Interviews

Motion pictures producers and directors -- United States -- Interviews

Screenwriters -- India -- Interviews

Motion picture producers and directors - India

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Screenwriters - India

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Film

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Filmography; James Ivory and Ismail Merchant: An Interview; Interview with James Ivory; Merchant-Ivory; The Merchant-Ivory Synthesizers; Hollywood versus Hollywood; Where Could I Meet Other Screenwriters? A Conversation with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Ismail Merchant: Snowballs to Eskimos; James Ivory: An Interview; The Trouble with Olive: Divine Madness in Massachusetts; Interview with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Dialogue on Film: Merchant and Ivory; A Film of Two Halves; A Truly Flourishing Plant; Buttling Under



The Elegance of James Ivory: 1994 D. W. Griffith Award WinnerIsmail Merchant: The Maker of Dreams; James Ivory; Conversation with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; James Ivory Interview; Ismail Merchant Transcript; Interview with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; James Ivory on His Final Destination and Working without Ismail Merchant; Additional Resources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together for the first time interviews made over the past five decades with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (b. 1927). Beginning with their earliest work in India, and ending with James Ivory's last film, The City of Your Final Destination (2009), the book traces their career, while offering valuable insights into their creative filmmaking process. The volume serves as a corrective to the prevailing critical orthodoxy attached to Merchant-Ivory's work, which tends to regard them as be