Adventures of a Suburban Boy

	Author(s): Boorman, John Publisher: Faber & Faber Format: Paperback List Price:  $14.00
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Overview:
John Boorman came of age as a filmmaker in the 1960s - the golden age of world cinema - and throughout his career' his celebrated films embraced the spirit of the era: challenging authority' questioning accepted morality' and examining the thin line between civilization and savagery. In Adventures of a Suburban Boy' Boorman delves deeply into these themes' applying his subversive sensibility to his life story as well as to some of the most important political and cultural events of the twentieth century. The result is a heady fusion of personal memoir and cinematic study relating how a child of the London Blitz became the influential director known for films such as Point Blank' Excalibur' Hope and Glory' Deliverance' and The General.

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