Box Office Poison - Tim Robey - Bog - Faber & Faber - Plusbog.dk
''Hugely entertaining.'' Prospect ''An instant classic.'' Andrew O''Hagan, author of Caledonian Road ''Expertly researched.'' Sight & Sound ''A rollicking, gossipy triumph.'' Daily Telegraph ***** ''Wildly enjoyable.'' Guardian‘Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag . . .’ From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Tim Robey’s hugely entertaining Box Office Poison tells an alternative history of Hollywood, through a century of its most notable flops. Freaks, Land of the Pharaohs, Dune, Speed 2, Catwoman, Cats: what can these films tell us about the Hollywood system, the public’s appetite - or lack of it - and the circumstances that saw such box office disasters actually made? Away from the canon, here is the definitive take on these ill-fated, but essential celluloid failures.
