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Lädt ... Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlotvon Steven Bingen
![]() Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() ![]() I was VERY excited about this book, as I loved [b:MGM: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot|8385757|MGM Hollywood's Greatest Backlot|Steven Bingen|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389828081s/8385757.jpg|13242997] so much that I bought a copy. I'm sad to say that this doesn't come close to it for me, as the formatting and tone feel much less polished and more personal (in a way that I don't enjoy). Also, fewer pictures than the MGM book. It's exhaustively researched, but not as exhaustively edited. I do get irritated feeling like a proof reader. Things that annoyed me: Using less instead of fewer (WRONG! p. I can't find it now, but it's early on.) P. 77: Calling Errol Flynn "besotted" instead of a less archaic term for drunk. P. 92: "Dick Mason, who we met earlier.." WHOM! WHOM! P. 170: "Marion the Librarians' house..." She is just one librarian. Librarian's. P. 175: this is probably my own preference, but "burg" meaning town, not "berg." P. 216: Murder at Monte Carlo was 1935, not 1937 as written. DUH, as Errol Flynn was well known to Americans by 37, thanks to 35's Captain Blood, among other things. P. 66: I know it's hyperbole, but I don't think WB's library was ever "something approaching the sum total of the world's knowledge." Just write what you mean. Language that might impress tour groups sounds amateurish in a book. P. 56: "If I may speak personally for a moment..." No, please don't. This is a book. We're not having a chat. There is also an egregious overuse of the passive voice and a tendency to identify movie stars as "superstars" or something like that (e.g "superstar Clint Eastwood"). I think the target audience for this book already knows who names like that are without the descriptor. These are mostly just whines, but really, once I notice this many actual errors, I'm too irritated to enjoy the book anymore. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Although some movie studios offer tours, few guests from outside the Hollywood community have ever been witness to the artistry, politics, and scandals that routinely go on behind the soundstage walls and away from the carefully orchestrated scenes visible to them from their tram carts. Bingen takes you inside the greatest and yet most mysterious movie studio of them all: Warner Bros. The studio lot functions as a small city and is even more fascinating, glamorous, and outrageous than any of the stars or movies that it has been routinely minting for more than ninety years. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)384.80979494Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Telecommunications (Telegraph, Internet, Cables, Broadcasting, Telephones, Movies) Motion picture industryKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:![]()
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