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In Directing Herbert White James Franco writes about making a film of Frank Bidart's poem, Herbert White. Though the main character, Herbert White is a necrophiliac, and a killer, the poem - and the film - are an expression of life's isolation and loneliness. A poem became a film. In the rest of book, Franco uses poems to express what he feels about film: about acting; about the actors he admires - James Dean, Marlon Brando, Sean Penn; about the cult of celebrity and his struggles with it; about his teenage years in Palo Alto, and about mortality prompted by the death of his father. These preoccupations are handled with a simplicity and directness that recalls the work of Frank O'Hara.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Directing Herbert White
• Author: James Franco
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9780571314379
• ISBN: 0571314376
• ID: 02544413
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 104 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 141 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. July 2014

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