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Title

Merchant-Ivory : interviews / edited by Laurence Raw.

Author

Merchant, Ismail

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Raw, Laurence

Description

xliv, 174 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together for the first time interviews made over the past five decades with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (b. 1927). Beginning with their earliest work in India, and ending with James Ivory's last film, The City of Your Final Destination (2009), the book traces their career, while offering valuable insights into their creative filmmaking process. The volume serves as a corrective to the prevailing critical orthodoxy attached to Merchant-Ivory's work, which tends to regard them as b.

Series Statement

Conversations with filmmakers series

Uniform Title

Conversations with filmmakers series.

Subject

• Merchant, Ismail > Interviews
• Ivory, James > Interviews
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927- > Interviews
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013 > Interviews
• Filmproduktion Firma
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Interviews
• Motion picture producers and directors > India > Interviews
• Screenwriters > India > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Interviews
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes filmography, bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

James Ivory and Ismail Merchant: an interview / Jag Mohan, Basu Chatterji, Arun Kaul (1968) -- Interview with James Ivory / Stephan Varble (1972) -- Merchant-Ivory / John Gillett (1973) -- The Merchant-Ivory synthesizers / Judith Trojan (1974) -- Hollywood versus Hollywood / James Ivory (1976) -- Where could I meet other screenwriters? a conversation with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / John Pym (1978) -- Ismail Merchant: snowballs to Eskimos / Charles Newman (1984) -- James Ivory: an interview / Pat Anderson (1984) -- The trouble with Olive: divine madness in Massachusetts / James Ivory (1985) -- Interview with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / Michael McDonough (1986) -- Dialogue on film: Merchant and Ivory / American Film Institute (1987) -- A film of two halves / Graham Fuller (1990) -- A truly flourishing plant / Michael Simpson (1992) -- Buttling under / Brian Case (1993) -- The elegance of James Ivory: 1994 D. W. Griffith award winner / Carolyn Hill (1995) -- Ismail Merchant: the maker of dreams / Shahrukh Husain (1995) -- James Ivory / Geoffrey MacNab (1999) -- Conversation with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / Philip Horne (2000) -- James Ivory interview / Mike Goodridge (2002) -- Ismail Merchant transcript / Chris Neumer (2003) -- Interview with Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / Declan McGrath and Felim MacDermott (2003) -- James Ivory on his final destination and working without Ismail Merchant / Erick Larnick (2010).

ISBN

• 9781617032370 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1617032379 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781617032387 (ebook)
• 1617032387 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011041457

OCLC

• 758646823
• SCSB-10609222

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library