Ray Harryhausen : nouveau livre

Archive Editions sort en septembre un nouveau livre sur Ray Harryhausen, premier volume d’une trilogie consacrée à l’artiste. L’éditeur publie d’abord le volume 2 qui se concentre sur les premiers films américains. l’éditeur explique ce choix ainsi :

Many of our consultants who reviewed the manuscript for factual accuracy commented that, while the contents of Volume One (Ray’s early years, The Fairy Tales, The Puppetoons, etc.) were enjoyable and informative, they were anxious to get to “the good stuff” —i.e., the feature films. So, in the grand trandition of Star Wars Episode IV (also released first), we elected to start off with a bang by presenting the volume that contained Ray’s first group of classic feature films. Volume Three will be released next (from The Three Worlds of Gulliver through Clash of the Titans), and finally Volume One.

Voici le sommaire de ce livre :

Written and produced over the past 10 years with Ray Harryhausen’s cooperation and support, the complete 3-volume definitive 295,000-word career/biography features interviews with Ray and his colleagues and is profusely illustrated with several hundred rare photographs, artwork, and illustrations (many of which have never been previously published).

Chapters in Volume 2 cover
Mighty Joe Young, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came From Beneath the Sea, The Animal World, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, 20 Million Miles to Earth and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.

Interview subjects/contributors to Volume 2 include Forrest J Ackerman, Hal Chester, Paul Christian, Wilkie Cooper, Bernard Gordon, Enzo Musumeci-Greco, Richard Green, Leslie Halliwell, Nathan Juran, Arnold Kunert, Kerwin Mathews, Darlyne O’Brien, Neil Pettigrew, Paula Raymond, Charles H. Schneer, Henry Slesar, and many others, some of whom have since passed away.

Stills and other material provided by numerous private collections, including considerable material that has never been seen in print before (including Ray Harryhausen’s own book). PLUS—

• Reproductions of advertising art & posters from different countries
• Compilation of reviews and story synopses
• Filmographies of key cast and crew
• Glossary of technical terminology
• The music for the films in this volume, including pages of David’s Buttolph’s original manuscript
  for his score for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
• Ray Harryhausen “Timeline”
• Trivia and obscure facts and figures related to Ray’s films
• A selection of Harryhausen collectibles pertaining to the films in this volume
• 370 pages, 104,000 word text (chapters, filmographies, reviews, technical glossary, cast & credits, and more)
• Approximately 1,004 images—photos, artwork, posters, technical diagrams and other illustrations, in Spectacular Color and “Glorious Black-and-White” (and remember, this is just our Volume 2)
• Hardcover: dark brown imitation leather with title stamped in gold foil on cover and spine
• Full color dust jacket
• Heavy 80 pound semi-gloss paper stock
• Overall dimensions 9″ x 11-1/2″ (22.86cm x 29.21cm)
• Weight – 5 pounds (2.5kg)

Le prix est juste un rien prohibitif : $74.95 + $12.00 de frais de port pour la France.
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