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Title: Titanic and the Making of James Cameron: The Inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History by Paula Parisi ISBN: 1-55704-365-5 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (20 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not a historical work...
Comment: I read this book and I must say I was very dissapointed. As a autobiography of James Cameron and his movie, the book does a good job.
But as for Perisi's Titanic information, she has made numerous errors. She gets alot of key dates in Titanic's story completely wrong. She has a good grasp of her subject matter, James Cameron, and she takes you inside the world of making movies which I found facinating. But, as far as the historical aspect of the book namely Titanic herself, Ms. Perisi equally demonstrates her lack of knowledge and research into Titanic's history.
She could have read the book that everyone else on Cameron's Titanic set read "Titanic: An Illustrated History by Lynch & Marschall" before writing her account. She at least would have had an accurate Titanic timeline and a better grasp of Titanic's history.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good counterpoint to most media views of Cameron.
Comment: This book does exactly what it set out to do - show how Titanic reshaped the movie-making industry by destroying conventional expectations. It also paints Cameron in a much different light than most other tv and print media do (i.e. good). Sometimes Parisi seems to go a bit overboard in her praise of Cameron and when she starts calling the media "idiots", one wonders just how much Cameron himself has influenced this work.
A good read, and helpful in understanding just how big an undertaking this film was, but while I admire James Cameron and loved the film, the golden glow that this book gives him is a bit much. Overall, I would recommend it for anyone wanting to see the innovativeness, stamina, politics, and gambling that went into pulling off the biggest film of all time (so far).
Rating: 2
Summary: Kind of biased and not historically correct
Comment: If you are looking for a book on the movie Titanic that includes quotes from the stars, this is not the book for you. The author rarely quoted Leo and Kate and even put in some criticizing facts, like Leo playing video games everyday and Kate calling in sick everyday. While these may be true, she seemed biased because she turned around to praise Cameron. At times it seemed more like Cameron's biography than a book on his movie.
This author is also not an expert on Titanic. What little historical information that is included is wrong. For example, she says the Titanic hit the iceberg at 10:30 pm and sank in 2 hours and 40 minutes, at 2:20 am. It should be that the Titanic hit the iceberg at 11:40 pm and sank at 2:20 am. If she had done her research on the event as well as the movie and it's making, she would have known that.
This book is okay. I would not recommend buying it because I have read better books on the making of this great movie.
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Title: James Cameron's Titanic by James Cameron, Ed Marsh, Jain Lemos ISBN: 0006490603 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 31 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay by Randall Frakes ISBN: 0060953071 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: James Cameron: An Unauthorized Biography Of The Filmmaker by Marc Shaprio ISBN: 158063124X Publisher: Renaissance Books Pub. Date: 16 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Titanic Story: Hard Choices, Dangerous Decisions by Stephen Cox ISBN: 0812693965 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart of the Titanic by Donald Lynch, Don Lynch, Ken Marschall, James Cameron ISBN: 0306812231 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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