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Paul on Mazursky
Contributor(s): Wasson, Sam (Author), Brooks, Mel (Other)
ISBN: 0819571431     ISBN-13: 9780819571434
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Individual Director
- Performing Arts | Film - General
Dewey: 791.430
LCCN: 2010052094
Series: Wesleyan Film
Physical Information: 1.15" H x 6.41" W x 9.1" (1.43 lbs) 348 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Conversations with one of America's funniest filmmakers

Paul Mazursky's nearly twenty films as writer/director represent Hollywood's most sustained comic expression of the 1970s and 1980s. But they have not been given their due, perhaps because Mazursky's films--both sincere and ridiculous, realistic and romantic--are pure emotion. This makes films like Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman, and Enemies, A Love Story difficult to classify, but that's what makes a human comedy human. In the first ever book-length examination of one of America's most important and least appreciated filmmakers, Sam Wasson sits down with Mazursky himself to talk about his movies and how he makes them. Going over Mazursky's oeuvre one film at a time, interviewer and interviewee delve into the director's life in and out of Hollywood, laughing, talking, and above all else, feeling--like Mazursky's people always do. The book includes a filmography and never-before-seen photos.