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Off the Cliff : How the Making of Thelma and Louise Drove Hollywo
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- Publication Name
- Penguin Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9781594206719
- Book Title
- Off the Cliff : How the Making of Thelma and Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Women, Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 20.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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A lively and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of history's most controversial and influential movies, drawing on exclusive interviews with the cast and crew. "You've always been crazy," says Louise to Thelma, shortly after she locks a police officer in the trunk of his car. "This is just the first chance you've had to express yourself." In 1991, Thelma & Louise , the story of two outlaw women on the run from their disenchanted lives, was a revelation. Suddenly, a film in which women were, in every sense, behind the wheel. It turned the tables on Hollywood, instantly becoming a classic, and continues to electrify audiences as a cultural statement of defiance. But if the film's place in history now seems certain, at the time its creation was a long shot. Only through sheer hard work and more than a little good luck did the script end up in the hands of the brilliant English filmmaker Ridley Scott, who saw its huge potential. With Scott on board, a team willing to challenge the odds came together--including the stars Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon and a fresh-faced up-and-coming actor named Brad Pitt, as well as legends like actor Harvey Keitel, composer Hans Zimmer, and old-school studio chief Alan Ladd Jr.--to create one of the most controversial movies of all time. But before icons like Davis and Sarandon got involved, Thelma & Louise was just an idea in the head of Callie Khouri, a thirty-year-old music video production manager, who was fed up with working behind the scenes on sleazy sets. At four a.m. one night, sitting in her car outside the ramshackle bungalow in Santa Monica that she shared with two friends, she had a vision: two women on a crime spree, fleeing their dull and tedious lives--lives like hers--in search of a freedom they had never before been able to realize. But in the late 1980s, Hollywood was dominated by men, both on the screen and behind the scenes. The likelihood of a script by an unheard-of screenwriter starring two women in lead roles actually getting made was remote. But Khouri had one thing going for her--she was so inexperienced she didn't really know she would be attempting the nigh impossible. In Off the Cliff , Becky Aikman tells the full extraordinary story behind this feminist sensation, which crashed through barricades and upended convention. Drawing on 130 exclusive interviews with the key players from this remarkable cast of actors, writers, and filmmakers, Aikman tells an inspiring and important underdog story about creativity, the magic of cinema, and the unjust obstacles that women in Hollywood continue to face to this day.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594206716
ISBN-13
9781594206719
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234900826
Product Key Features
Book Title
Off the Cliff : How the Making of Thelma and Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1997.T427a45 2017
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"Entertaining... Off the Cliff is enhanced by informative, brief biographies of key players and mini-essays on pertinent topics like the history of women in film. For fans of the iconic film, Aikman provides everything you wanted to know about it." -- Kirkus Reviews "'Thelma & Louise' is both historic and anomalous--historic because it is so anomalous. Becky Aikman has told its story with the same propulsion as the film itself and manages to ground it in the sexual politics of Hollywood when a movie like 'Thelma and Louise' seemed an impossibility. Entertaining, informed, and unfortunately still timely in its perspective on women and the movies, Off the Cliff is one of the very best behind-the-scenes books you are likely to read." --Neal Gabler, author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination and An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood "A making-of book on 'Thelma & Louise,' one of the few diamonds among the films released by the studios in the late '80s and '90s, is long overdue. This breezy, smart, and informative account is it. Thank you, Becky Aikman!" --Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood "Thelma and Louise are a modern Damon and Pythias. Until they choose to go out in blazing glory, they live through a free-wheeling, slam-bang, bad-ass, sisterhood adventure saga. It's great to learn how a modern movie that says women's lives are important got made and to contemplate what it means in film history and American culture. A great read!" --Jeanine Basinger, Founder of the Film Studies Department and Curator of Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University, and author of I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies and A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960, "'Thelma & Louise' is both historic and anomalous--historic because it is so anomalous. Becky Aikman has told its story with the same propulsion as the film itself and manages to ground it in the sexual politics of Hollywood when a movie like 'Thelma and Louise' seemed an impossibility. Entertaining, informed, and unfortunately still timely in its perspective on women and the movies, Off the Cliff is one of the very best behind-the-scenes books you are likely to read." --Neal Gabler, author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination and An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood "A making-of book on 'Thelma & Louise,' one of the few diamonds among the films released by the studios in the late '80s and '90s, is long overdue. This breezy, smart, and informative account is it. Thank you, Becky Aikman!" --Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood "Thelma and Louise are a modern Damon and Pythias. Until they choose to go out in blazing glory, they live through a free-wheeling, slam-bang, bad-ass, sisterhood adventure saga. It's great to learn how a modern movie that says women's lives are important got made and to contemplate what it means in film history and American culture. A great read!" --Jeanine Basinger, Founder of the Film Studies Department and Curator of Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University, and author of I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies and A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960, "Aikman's copious research, much of it her own interviews with all the heavies, and journalist's knack for turns of phrase imbue the story with genuine suspense and capture the film's bewildering singularity at every step of its development.... As both a razzle-dazzle, inside-Hollywood legend and a fearless lamentation of film-industry opportunities for women, this succeeds handsomely."-- Booklist "Aikman delivers an informative and lively behind-the-scenes look at the making of Thelma & Louise."-- Publishers Weekly "Entertaining... Off the Cliff is enhanced by informative, brief biographies of key players and mini-essays on pertinent topics like the history of women in film. For fans of the iconic film, Aikman provides everything you wanted to know about it." -- Kirkus Reviews "'Thelma & Louise' is both historic and anomalous--historic because it is so anomalous. Becky Aikman has told its story with the same propulsion as the film itself and manages to ground it in the sexual politics of Hollywood when a movie like 'Thelma and Louise' seemed an impossibility. Entertaining, informed, and unfortunately still timely in its perspective on women and the movies, Off the Cliff is one of the very best behind-the-scenes books you are likely to read." --Neal Gabler, author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination and An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood "A making-of book on 'Thelma & Louise,' one of the few diamonds among the films released by the studios in the late '80s and '90s, is long overdue. This breezy, smart, and informative account is it. Thank you, Becky Aikman!" --Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood "Thelma and Louise are a modern Damon and Pythias. Until they choose to go out in blazing glory, they live through a free-wheeling, slam-bang, bad-ass, sisterhood adventure saga. It's great to learn how a modern movie that says women's lives are important got made and to contemplate what it means in film history and American culture. A great read!" --Jeanine Basinger, Founder of the Film Studies Department and Curator of Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University, and author of I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies and A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960, " Off the Cliff tells the remarkable story of the underdog project that marked Brad Pitt's very first movie role, landed Davis and Sarandon on the cover of Time magazine, was nominated for six Academy Awards, and still stands today as a shining, pop-cultural icon of defiance." -- Parade "Brings fascinating revelations from interviews with people of varying degrees of involvement in the work: try outs and casting, costuming, location selecting, props and equipment (dust blowers, tumbleweed, five Thunderbirds), relationships among actors (Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, director Ridley Scott, new discovery Brad Pitt)....For film buffs and historians, feminists, and residents of La La Land." - Library Journal "Aikman's copious research, much of it her own interviews with all the heavies, and journalist's knack for turns of phrase imbue the story with genuine suspense and capture the film's bewildering singularity at every step of its development.... As both a razzle-dazzle, inside-Hollywood legend and a fearless lamentation of film-industry opportunities for women, this succeeds handsomely."-- Booklist "Aikman delivers an informative and lively behind-the-scenes look at the making of Thelma & Louise."-- Publishers Weekly "Entertaining... Off the Cliff is enhanced by informative, brief biographies of key players and mini-essays on pertinent topics like the history of women in film. For fans of the iconic film, Aikman provides everything you wanted to know about it." -- Kirkus Reviews "'Thelma & Louise' is both historic and anomalous--historic because it is so anomalous. Becky Aikman has told its story with the same propulsion as the film itself and manages to ground it in the sexual politics of Hollywood when a movie like 'Thelma and Louise' seemed an impossibility. Entertaining, informed, and unfortunately still timely in its perspective on women and the movies, Off the Cliff is one of the very best behind-the-scenes books you are likely to read." --Neal Gabler, author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination and An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood "A making-of book on 'Thelma & Louise,' one of the few diamonds among the films released by the studios in the late '80s and '90s, is long overdue. This breezy, smart, and informative account is it. Thank you, Becky Aikman!" --Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood "Thelma and Louise are a modern Damon and Pythias. Until they choose to go out in blazing glory, they live through a free-wheeling, slam-bang, bad-ass, sisterhood adventure saga. It's great to learn how a modern movie that says women's lives are important got made and to contemplate what it means in film history and American culture. A great read!" --Jeanine Basinger, Founder of the Film Studies Department and Curator of Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University, and author of I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies and A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960
Copyright Date
2017
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2017-008573
Dewey Decimal
791.4372
Intended Audience
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Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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