| Pursuing Hollywood: Seduction, Obsession, Dread Contributor(s): Kohn, Nathaniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0759109249 ISBN-13: 9780759109247 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: A former Hollywood screenwriter and producer (Zulu Dawn) recounts his experiences and relates them to communication and cultural theory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006001681 |
| Series: Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.34" W x 9.12" (1.01 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before coming to the academy, Nathaniel Kohn was a screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, London, and South Africa. He produced the epic film Zulu Dawn (with Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole and 6,000 Zulu extras), and was involved in other projects in that wheel-and-deal world. Moving to the communications research world, he struggled to apply theory to his personal experiences, showing how everyday life and the pursuits of Hollywood interact and how communication and cultural theory (mis)inform those exchanges. The book is filled with priceless tales of finding a black market money changer in Johannesburg to pay off his extras during the filming of Zulu Dawn, the on again/off again nature of movie projects, the obsessed women and dreadful men, the egos, and the duplicity. His experimental writing style_descriptive ethnography, imaginary screen dialogue, recounted conversations_makes this a highly readable work. |