阅读約翰·巴斯特 John Baxter在影视与戏剧的作品!!! | |||
約翰·巴斯特出生長大於澳大利亞，工作於倫敦和美國，他在美國完成自己的教育，現同他的妻子瑪莉·多米尼·蒙特爾（Marie-DominiqueMontel）居住於巴黎。約翰·巴斯特是電影評論、小說、傳記作和電視工作者。
Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney, but has made his home in Paris since 1989, where he is married to the film-maker Marie-Dominique Montel. They have one daughter, Louise.
He began writing science fiction in the early 1960s for New Worlds, Science Fantasy and other British magazines. His first novel, though serialised in New Worlds as THE GOD KILLERS, was published as a book in the US by Ace as The Off-Worlders. He was Visiting Professor at Hollins College in Virginia in 1975-1976. He has written a number of short stories and novels in that genre and a book about SF in the movies, as well as editing collections of Australian science fiction.
Baxter has also written a large number of other works dealing with the movies, including biographies of film personalities, including Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, George Lucas and Robert De Niro. He has written a number of documentaries, including a survey of the life and work of the painter Fernando Botero. He also co-produced, wrote and presented three television series for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Filmstruck, First Take and The Cutting Room, and was co-editor of the ABC book programme Books And Writing.
In the 1960s, he was a member of the WEA Film Study Group with such notable people as Ian Klava, Frank Moorhouse, Michael Thornhill, John Flaus and Ken Quinnell. From July 1965 to December 1967 the WEA Film Study Group published the cinema journal FILM DIGEST. This journal was edited by John Baxter.
For a number of years in the sixties, he was active in the Sydney Film Festival, and during the 1980s served in a consulting capacity on a number of film-funding bodies, as well as writing film criticism for The Australian and other periodicals. Some of his books have been translated into various languages, including Japanese and Chinese.
Since moving to Paris, he has written three books of autobiography, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light, and Immoveable feast : a Paris Christmas.
Since 2007 he has been co-director of the annual Paris Writers Workshop.
Publication
Novel
The Black Yacht, 1982
"Scorched" as "James Blackstone", pseudonym of Baxter and John Brosnan. (about spontaneous human combustion)
Bidding
The Hermes Fall, 1978 (about a possible collision of the asteroid Hermes and the earth)
The Off-Worlders, 1966 (about a planet where superstition rules)
Edited collection
The Second Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction, 1971
The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction, 1968
Nonfiction
Immoveable feast : a Paris Christmas , 2008
We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light, 2006
A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, 2002
The Fire Came by: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion, 1976
Film Book
John Baxter (1999). Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas. New York City: Spike Books. ISBN 0-380-97833-4.
George Lucas: A Biography , 1999
Woody Allen: A Biography, 1998
Buñuel, 1998
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography, 1997
De Niro: A Biography, 2003
Filmstruck: Australia at the Movies. , 1986
The Hollywood Exiles, 1976
King Vidor, 1976
Stunt; the Story of the Great Movie Stunt Men , 1974
Sixty Years of Hollywood, 1973
An Appalling Talent: Ken Russell, 1973
The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg, 1971
The Australian Cinema, 1970
Science Fiction in the Cinema, 1970
Hollywood in the Thirties, 1968
Filmography
The Time Guardian, 1987