Geoff Dyer

'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy'

Watching 'Where Eagles Dare'

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Produktbeschreibung

In Zona, Geoff Dyer--'one of our most original writers' (New York )--devoted a whole book to Andrei Tarkovsky's cult masterpiece, Stalker. Now, in this warm and funny tribute to one of his favorite movies, he revisits the action classic Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure headlined by a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' is Dyer's hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: it's a scene-by-scene analysis--or should that be send-up?--taking us from the movie's snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 132mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9780525563082
• ISBN-10: 0525563083
• Artikelnr.: 58480994

Autorenporträt

Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including But Beautiful, Out of Sheer Rage, Zona (on Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker), and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. www.geoffdyer.com