Laurence Raw 
Merchant-Ivory [EPUB ebook] 
Interviews

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Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together, for the first time, interviews made over a span of fifty years with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927–2013). 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 being solely concerned with historically accurate costumes and settings. As independent filmmakers, they have developed an idiosyncratic approach that resists facile classification. Merchant-Ivory have insisted on maintaining their independence.
More importantly, this book shows how Merchant-Ivory have always taken considerable care in casting their films, as well as treating actors with respect. This is a deliberate policy, designed to bring out one of the triumvirate’s principal thematic concerns, running throughout their work—the impact of the “clash of cultures” on individuals. Partly this has been inspired by their collective experiences of living and working in different cultures. They do not offer any answers to this issue; rather they believe that their task is simply to raise awareness; to make filmgoers conscious of the importance of cultural sensitivities that assume paramount significance in any exchange, whether verbal or nonverbal.

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Laurence Raw (1959–2018) was professor of English at Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey. He authored several books, including Adapting Henry James to the Screen: Gender, Fiction, and Film; The Ridley Scott Encyclopedia; and Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930–1960.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 160 ● ISBN 9781628469714 ● File size 2.0 MB ● Editor Laurence Raw ● Publisher University Press of Mississippi ● City Jackson ● Country US ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7258257 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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