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Taxi Driver
Amy Taubin
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Paperback. Taxi Driver is one of the major films of the 1970s, which established Martin Scorcese's reputation as a prominent American director. This new edition of Taubin's study is published in the Film Classics 20th anniversary series of special editions, with a new foreword by Amy Taubin, and a stunning new jacket design by Marc Atkins. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 88 pages, 24 colour illustrations, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 178. Series: BFI Film Classics. 88 pages, 24 colour illustrations, 26 black & white halftones. Taxi Driver is one of the major films of the 1970s, which established Martin Scorcese's reputation as a prominent American director. This new edition of Taubin's study is published in the Film Classics 20th anniversary series of special editions, with a new foreword by Amy Taubin, and a stunning new jacket design by Marc Atkins. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: APFG. Dimension: 189 x 137 x 7. Weight: 176.
Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace: the story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script, but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a package to refuse. Scorsese transformed the script into what is now considered one ... Read more
Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace: the story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script, but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a package to refuse. Scorsese transformed the script into what is now considered one ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844574995
SKU
V9781844574995
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About Amy Taubin
AMY TAUBIN is a contributing editor of Film Comment and Sight & Sound and writes frequently for Artforum.
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