Vanity Fair: Bringing Thackeray's Timeless Novel to the Screen (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks) - Hardcover

Nair, Mira; Faulk, Matthew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557046387 ISBN 13: 9781557046383

Publisher: Newmarket Press, 2004

Synopsis

The full-color companion to the new film version of the Thackeray novel starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!).

Reese Witherspoon stars as Becky Sharp, one of the greatest female characters ever created. Born into the lower class, Becky can rely only on her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes her way up through London society circa 1820, alongside her best friend Amelia. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost.

In addition to the complete screenplay by Oscar®-winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and Matthew Faulk & Mark Skeet (NBC's Jason and the Argonauts), this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook features over 150 full-color illustrations, extracts from Thackeray's novel, interviews with the cast and crew, notes by director Mira Nair, and sidebars on the film's costume, set, and production design. 150 color photos.

About this title

About the Author:

Mira Nair is the internationally acclaimed director of Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!, Vanity Fair, Mississippi Masala, The Perez Family, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, and Hysterical Blindness.

Jhumpa Lahiri, the author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake, has been the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship.

Photographers represented include Frederick Elmes, Nemai Ghosh, Milan Moudgill, and Dayanita Singh.

From Publishers Weekly:

Combining pretty pictures, fascinating background information and an overall lovely story as its subject, this companion to the Mira Nair film based on Thackeray’s classic novel offers more than the usual "behind the scenes" film book. Vanity Fair was published in monthly installments beginning in 1847, and it merrily exposed every bit of English society’s two-facedness, money-oriented desires and social fronts. Director Nair (Monsoon Wedding) spent months doing "homework like a schoolgirl" in order to prepare for the film version, and she shares her lengthy e-mail correspondence with screenwriter Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) about adapting Thackeray. These messages make up the book’s most captivating portion, as director and screenwriter bat around ideas such as adding more emotion to certain scenes, staying true to Thackeray’s concepts and disguising an actor’s pregnancy. Fans of Nair and Fellowes will delight at reading the notes; the two share a strong friendship and frequently profess their admiration for one another. The rest of the book consists of bits of the screenplay, Nair’s journals and photos of cast members in costume.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Newmarket Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1557046387
• ISBN 13: 9781557046383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176