The Films of Alan Parker 1976-2003

<p> The offbeat musicals <I>Fame</I> 1980) <I>Pink Floyd--The Wall</I> (1982) <I>The Commitments</I> 1991) and <I>Evita</I> (1996)... The stylized biopics <I>Midnight Express</I> (1978) <I>Mississippi Burning</I> (1988) <I>The Road to Wellville</I> (1994) and <I>Angela's Ashes</I> (1999)... The visceral social dramas <I>Shoot the Moon</I> (1982) <I>Birdy</I> (1984) <I>Come See the Paradise</I> (1990) and <I>The Life of David Gale</I> (2003)... The one-of-kind genre films <I>Bugsy Malone</I> (1979) and <I>Angel Heart</I> (1987)...</p><p> These are the films of British director writer producer and cartoonist Sir Alan Parker. Among many awards and a knighthood Parker is the founding director of the Director's Guild of Great Britain and in 2013 won the honorary British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship Award.</p><p> Parker is known for his humility as a director and has never considered himself an <I>auteur</I>: I have total admiration for film crews. They are the true heroes of the filmmaking process not directors. He has worked alongside producer Alan Marshall cinematographer Michael Seresin and the late film editor Gerry Hambling. This book is the first study of his complete body of feature films (1976-2003).</p>