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The Godfather

(book in English)

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by Jon Lewis

Type: Studies
Subject: One Film > The Godfather
Keywords: Francis Ford Coppola
Publishing Date: 2009
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Publisher: BFI Publishing
Collection: BFI Film Classics
Language: English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 96 pages • 13,26 €
5 ¼ x 7 ½ inches (13.5 x 19 cm)

ISBN

978-1-8445-7292-2

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Jon Lewis is Professor in the Department of English at Oregon State University.

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