| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Screen classics |
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Screen classics
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| Contents |
Prologue -- The boy in his own company -- Colonizing a wilderness -- Making a name in London -- Man's favorite sport -- Through a glass refracted: the wild angles picture show -- Professional winners and professional losers -- Idol worship in jazz: Lady sings the blues and Hit! -- Sid & Carole & Clark & Sheila: the romantic fantasies -- Cast iron jacket -- Cool sounds from hell: The entity -- Matinee buster -- Housemaster -- Epilogue: still working the angles |
| Summary |
The 57-year career of Toronto-born film director Sidney J. Furie laughs in the face of monotony, surely ranking among the most fascinating in the history of the industry. Emigrating to London after blazing a trail as a pioneer in his home country of Canada, the young Furie built his reputation early as a visual daredevil, an enfant terrible, and a bankable name, only to be cruelly (and flippantly) dismissed in later years as a 'wizened old hack' and a journeyman on a losing streak. What these later detractors often fail to remember, however, is that Furie provided key creative signatures for films like the art-house espionage drama 'The Ipcress File' (1965), the award-winning box-office smash 'Lady Sings the Blues' (1972), the influential Vietnam War drama/satire 'The Boys in Company C' (1978), the stylish horror film 'The Entity' (1982), and other classics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Furie, Sidney J
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| SUBJECT |
Furie, Sidney J. fast |
| Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors -- Canada -- Biography
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015026559 |
| ISBN |
9780813165981 |
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0813165989 |
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9780813165974 |
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0813165970 |
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9780813166742 |
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0813166748 |
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