Raised by Wolves: The Turbulent Art and Times of Quentin Tarantino
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (924 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560258586 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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A film professor as well as a novelist and essayist, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the American University of Paris.. His novel The Green Lantern was one of the five finalists for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and he is the author of more than thirty books. Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx in 1937
All rights reserved. . It's clear Charyn has been moved by Tarantino's films, but this expression of his admiration falls far below his usual lyrical standards as a novelist. (June 10)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Accordingly, everything seems to be done at half-strength: Charyn relies heavily on quotes from earlier profiles and film reviews, and in several cases, his analysis barely rises above quoting dialogue line by line. But that doesn't excuse the rushed quality of this cut-and-paste rehash. From Publishers Weekly Charyn's been busy in recent months, publishing a biographical study of Isaac Babel (Savage Shorthand) and editing an anthology of Jewish-American literature (Inside the Hornet's Head). He also leans on the critical notion that actors can be confused with the characters they're playing, an idea that goes hand in hand with his reduction of Tarantino's themes to the psychological plight o
Seemingly senseless gibble gabble The moment I saw the cover of this newly published book, I immediately went to the cash register and bought myself a copy. I mean, even the title sounds cool"Raised By Wolves". Yet, when I began reading this book, I was wondering where all of this writing was g. "Underwhelming" according to Scot W. Reads more like a pretentious critique of QT's filmography than it does an insightful look at the man himself. Look elsewhere if it's a straightforward fact-based biography you desire.. Ceci said Review. Easy to read, instresting and with lots of information on Quentin Tarantino's life. A nice way to have fun and learn
Here, from legendary novelist and historian Jerome Charyn, is a portrait of both the man AND the myth — and the mind behind them both. Sound about right? A high-school dropout who never attended film school, Tarantino got all the education he needed while working the register at Los Angeles's fabled Video Archives. The outrageous success of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction essentially killed off Tarantino the man, and gave birth to Tarantino the myth. His enthusiasms — for pop culture (foreign and domestic), eye-popping aesthetics, and genre films — would become notorious and infectious. More than a biography, more than a critical study, Raised by Wolves is a feisty and astute reckoning with Tarantino en toto.. When Quentin Tarantin