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THE GODFATHER - JON LEWIS KARTONIERT (TB)

Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making  and
its success - as a work of art  as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio  Paramount
Pictures  and as a model for aspiring auteurist film-makers - changed Hollywood forever. Jon
Lewis's study of The Godfather begins with a close look at the film's audacious visual style
(the long  theatrical set pieces  the chiaroscuro lighting  the climactic montage paralleling a
family baptism with a series of brutal murders). The analysis of visual style is paired with a
discussion of the movie's principal themes: Vito and Michael's attempt to balance the
obligations of business and family  their struggle with assimilation  the temptations and
pitfalls of capitalist accumulation  and the larger drama of succession from father to son 
from one generation to the next. The textual analysis precedes a production history that views
The Godfather as a singularly important film in Hollywood's dramatic box-office turnaround in
the early 1970s. And then  finally  the book takes a long hard look at the gangster himself
both on screen and off. Hollywood publicity attending the gangster film from its inception in
the silent era to the present has endeavoured to dull the distinction between the real and
movie gangster  insisting that each film has been culled from the day's sordid headlines.
Looking at the drama on screen and the production history behind the scenes  Lewis uncovers a
series of real gangster backstories  revealing  finally  how millions of dollars of mob money
may well have funded the film in the first place  and how  as things played out  The Godfather
saved Paramount Studios and the rest of Hollywood as well.

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