The Oliver Stone Experience ■ ■ BY M AT T ZO L L E R S E I T Z ■ F O R E W O R D BY R A H M I N B A H R A N I ■ I N T R O D U C T I O N BY K I E S E L AY M O N
S E LLING POINTS ■■ An extremely candid and comprehensive autobiography of Stone in interview form ■■ Seitz, a bestselling author, has
Oliver Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective
established himself as one of America’s leading cultural critics ■■ From the same author and designer behind the New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series
S PECIFICATIONS 500 colour illustrations 480 pages 12 × 10" • 305 × 254mm Hardcover RIGHTS: WORLD PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER
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PERFORMING ARTS • liver Stone is one of the grand masters of American cinema. A multiple Academy Award–winning
screenwriter and director (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon,
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JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden), he is as well known for his outspoken, controversial political beliefs as he is for his innovative films. Here, Stone and author Matt Zoller Seitz discuss
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the arc of Stone’s life and work with extraordinary candour. The cinematic mastermind shares anecdotes about Vietnam, his childhood, his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his continual struggle to reinvent himself as an artist. The book includes never-before-seen material that dates back to Stone’s childhood in the 1950s, personal snapshots, private correspondence, annotated script pages and storyboards, and
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behind-the-scenes photography. At once a complex analysis of a master director’s vision and a painfully honest autobiography, The Oliver Stone Experience promises to be as daring, intense, and provocative as Stone’s films. Matt Zoller Seitz is the television critic for New York magazine and the editor in chief of RogerEbert.com. He is the author of The Wes Anderson Collection and The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel. He lives in Brooklyn.
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