The Making of.....SCARFACE / RAGING BULL (Paperbacks) First Editions

Two MAKING OF books featuring classic films of the 1970s/80s from the FILM FRONTIER series:

1) THE MAKING OF SCARFACE...by David Taylor

Brian De Palma's 1983 crime saga Scarface was simultaenously greet with derision and applaus by sritics, some saw the almost three-hour storyof Al Pacino's modern-day Al Capone as over-long and over-violent. Others greeted it as a stylishly modern take on the traditional gangster movie.

Tracing the film's origins from Oliver Stone's script back to a 1932 Howard Hawks film of the same titles and a novel before that, THE MAKING OF SCARFACE reconstructs the painstaking creation of a contemporary classic, and assesses its impact twenty-plus years on.

A FIRST EDITION paperback published in 2005 by Unanimous (£9.99)

 

2) THE MAKING OF RAGING BULL by Mike Evans 

With the triumphs of MEAN STREETS and TAXI DRIVER behind him, RAGING BULL represented a turning point for director Martin Scorsese, and a quarter of a century later is still considered by many to be his finest achievement.

The Making of Raging Bull traces how the often harrowing autobiography of boxer Jake La Motta was brought to the screen, the rigorous care which went into the film's creation, andd how it impacted on the lives and careers of all those involved.

A FIRST EDITION paperback published in 2006 by Unanimous  (£9.99)