Monday, October 04, 2021

Book review - "Nora Ephron: Everything's Copy" by Liz Dance (2015)

 I was hoping for an indepth bio - this is more of an academic work, an analysis of text which is always dangerous with filmmakers because texts change so often due to external factors. I guess in Ephron's case she was a director with power (most of the film) so her films can be taken more as texts and of course she wrote. There's a lot of analysis of Ephron's essays, scripts and prose... not so much unfilmed scripts which I think would have been interesting. It also looks at the work of her parents and sister. Not bad, I think I was just looking for something more.

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