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New Brokeback book
Meryl:
Thanks, chowhound. Maybe this will give a bump to our analysis threads in the Open Forum! :)
Front-Ranger:
I'm looking forward to reading the book as soon as it comes out. I have Annie Proulx's latest book on order too. However, I really feel that just one more book needs to be made (at least one, that is). Have you noticed that all of the books about Brokeback Mountain don't have any photos? (correct me if I'm wrong!) Don't you find it odd that a book about a movie doesn't have any photos? ??? ???
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 15, 2011, 02:58:00 pm ---I'm looking forward to reading the book as soon as it comes out. I have Annie Proulx's latest book on order too. However, I really feel that just one more book needs to be made (at least one, that is). Have you noticed that all of the books about Brokeback Mountain don't have any photos? (correct me if I'm wrong!) Don't you find it odd that a book about a movie doesn't have any photos? ??? ???
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I don't. Not really. Not if it's a scholarly-criticism type of book, or, really, anything in the scholarly vein that isn't about the movie itself, or about the movie in the context of the craft of movie-making. You don't need pictures from the film to discuss how the film affected people. As I go back and reread the description in the first post, it seems to me that this isn't a book about the movie. The essay authors apparently aren't interested in things like how many times a bucket appears in the movie. Besides, pictures are expensive to include in books.
Interesting to me to see that the contributors included Andrew Holleran and Patricia Nell Warren.
Front-Ranger:
I agree with you Jeff that this doesn't appear to be a book about the movie. Neither do any of the other books I have, with the possible exception of Story to Screenplay. One or two are primarily about the story and one would understand why those don't have photos (although the original story DOES have illustrations...watercolors by William Matthews). But, as book after book appears, I'm starting to get impatient to see ONE that has some beautiful color photos in it. Such books have been produced about other movies Ang Lee has done...why not Brokeback Mountain?? ???
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 15, 2011, 05:47:04 pm ---I agree with you Jeff that this doesn't appear to be a book about the movie. Neither do any of the other books I have, with the possible exception of Story to Screenplay. One or two are primarily about the story and one would understand why those don't have photos (although the original story DOES have illustrations...watercolors by William Matthews). But, as book after book appears, I'm starting to get impatient to see ONE that has some beautiful color photos in it. Such books have been produced about other movies Ang Lee has done...why not Brokeback Mountain?? ???
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I didn't know that about other Ang Lee films. That sounds like a good idea to me. :)
I've never heard of William Matthews and his water colors. :( I don't know much about art, but from what little I can remember from school, water color sounds like a good medium for paintings from this story. :)
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