Cinema speculation / Quentin Tarantino

By:

Tarantino, Quentin, 1963-

Language: English Publication details: New York : Harper Perennial Paperback, 2024Edition: First Harper Perennial editionDescription: 391 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:

9780063112575
0063112574

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.430973

LOC classification:

PN 1993.5 T176c 2024

Contents:

Little Q watching big movies Bullitt (1968) Dirty Harry (1971) Deliverance (1972) The Getaway (1972) The Outfit (1973) Second-String Samurai: an appreciation of Kevin Thomas New Hollywood in the seventies: the post-sixties anti-establishment auteurs vs. the movie brats Sisters (1973) Daisy Miller (1974) Taxi Driver (1976) Cinema speculation: What if Brian De Palma directed Taxi Driver instead of Martin Scorsese? Rolling Thunder (1977) Paradise Alley (1978) Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Hardcore (1979) The Funhouse (1981) *Floyd Footnote

Summary: "In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT's and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever."

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PN 1993.5 T176c 2024 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000189316

Includes index

Little Q watching big movies
Bullitt (1968)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Deliverance (1972)
The Getaway (1972)
The Outfit (1973)
Second-String Samurai: an appreciation of Kevin Thomas
New Hollywood in the seventies: the post-sixties anti-establishment auteurs vs. the movie brats
Sisters (1973)
Daisy Miller (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Cinema speculation: What if Brian De Palma directed Taxi Driver instead of Martin Scorsese?
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Paradise Alley (1978)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Hardcore (1979)
The Funhouse (1981)
*Floyd Footnote

"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT's and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever."

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