Joe Alves: Designing Jaws

Name: Joe Alves: Designing Jaws
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SKU: 9781789091014
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By Dennis L. Prince

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Joe Alves: Designing JAWS offers an exclusive look from the production designer's perspective on the creation of the iconic film JAWS. Featuring Joe Alves' original pre-production illustrations, handwritten notes, on-set photos, shark design blueprints, and the complete catalogue of storyboards published for the first time, this book reveals the artistry behind one of cinema's most thrilling and enduring movies.
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This book is essential for film enthusiasts, fans of JAWS, and those interested in production design and cinematic history.

Joe Alves: Designing JAWS provides the production designer's view into the development of this world-renowned film. Included are Joe's stunning pre-production illustrations; handwritten location and production notes; on-set photographs; blueprints of the shark's design; and first-time publication of his complete catalogue of storyboards.

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Joe Alves: Designing Jaws provides the production designer's view into the development of this world-renowned film. Included are Joe's stunning pre-production illustrations; handwritten location and production notes; on-set photographs; blueprints of the shark's design; and the first-time publication of his complete catalogue of storyboards. Joe Alves: Designing Jaws is a must-have addition to every film reference library.

Universal Studios' Jaws is one of the most compelling and enduring movies ever made. It has thrilled generations of audiences worldwide with its tight plot, memorable characters, and ground-breaking special effects—those that brought the great white shark to terrifying life even after many said it couldn't be done. Painstakingly compiled and written by Joe Alves' biographer and Jaws expert, Dennis Prince, Joe Alves: Designing Jaws is a must-have addition to every film reference library.

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Critics praise the book as "the most up-my-alley making of release this year" (Birth.Movies.Death), a "quality work" that "fans of the film won't want to miss" (Borg.com), and "beautiful, nostalgic" (Slice of SciFi).

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789091014

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 November 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 279.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 192

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About the Author

DENNIS L. PRINCE is an accomplished writer and author who, since 1998, has produced a steady output of book-length titles that span business, technical, internet, and entertainment-related subjects. Born in Sunnyvale, California, he began his writing career in 1998 and has enjoyed a steady output that has amounted to more than a dozen published book-length works plus hundreds of magazine and online articles.His lifetime love for movies and television led him to narrow his focus on film, filmmakers, and popular culture. He's best known for his books, Aurora Monster Scenes: The Most Controversial Toys of a Generation and Joe Alves: Designing JAWS. Prince makes his home in Rocklin, California, with his wife and two children.

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