The screenplay's the thing : movie criticism 1986-1990 /
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| Author / Creator: | Bawer, Bruce, 1956- |
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| Imprint: | Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1992. |
| Description: | 298 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1317311 |
Table of Contents:
- Shooting Blanks. Top Gun
- Luv Stories. Letter to Brezhnev. My Beautiful Laundrette
- East Meets West. A Great Wall
- Deceptions. Mona Lisa. Men
- Weirdos. Blue Velvet. Down by Law. Tough Guys
- Past and Present. Something Wild. Peggy Sue Got Married. Caravaggio
- Life With Father. The Mosquito Coast
- Poltroon. Platoon
- Thespians and Specimens. Outrageous Fortune. Sherman's March
- Sentimental Journeys. My Sweet Little Village. Radio Days
- Raising Coen. Raising Arizona
- Tough Guys. The Untouchables. River's Edge. Prick Up Your Ears
- Summer Fare. The Squeeze. Spaceballs. Innerspace. Roxanne
- Kubrick Goes to War. Full Metal Jacket
- Thrillers. The Big Easy. No Way Out
- College Boys. Maurice
- Back to the Newsroom. Broadcast News
- Sunstruck. Empire of the Sun. Hope and Glory. Moonstruck. Five Corners
- Polanski's Emmanuelle. Frantic
- Zero for Four. Bright Lights, Big City. The Milagro Beanfield War. Masquerade. Biloxi Blues
- Communists and Kitsch. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. The Manchurian Candidate
- Summer Flicks. Funny Farm. Big Business. Big
- Rabbit, Run. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- The Stately Homes of England--And America. A Handful of Dust. Mr. North
- Superstar. The Last Temptation of Christ
- Streets of New York. Punchline. Crossing Delancey
- Women and More Women. The Accused. The Good Mother
- The Screenplay's the Thing
- The Winter of Our Discontent. The Accidental Tourist. Beaches. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Talk Radio
- Fairly Funny. Working Girl. Who's Harry Crumb?
- Tales from the City. New York Stories. Dangerous Liaisons
- Veronica and Vera. Heathers. Little Vera
- More Dangerous Liaisons. Scandal
- Poetry in Motion. Dead Poets Society. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- The Baron of Brighton. Remembering Laurence Olivier
- In Woody's Shadow. Parenthood. When Harry Met Sally ...
- Sex and Candy. sex, lies, and videotape. Uncle Buck
- Bette Davis, R.I.P. Remembering Bette Davis
- Dopes on Dope. Drugstore Cowboy
- Manhattan Melodrama, Bayou Banter. Crimes and Misdemeanors. Steel Magnolias
- Ego Trips. Roger and Me. Henry V. Enemies: A Love Story
- Black and White in Color. Glory. Driving Miss Daisy
- Men and Their Vessels. The Hunt for Red October. The Handmaid's Tale
- Commonplace Comedy. Pretty Woman. Nuns on the Run. I Love You to Death
- Cannes Artists. The 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Further Thoughts
- What Ever Happened to Doris Day?
- Novel to Film. The World According to Garp.