Tesla (eBook)

Michael Almereyda (Autor)

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2022
248 Seiten
Or Books (Verlag)
978-1-68219-286-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career. In these pages, we encounter Tesla s colleagues and friends intermingling with Almereyda s collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David Lynch, Mark Twain and Sam Shepard, Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke, J.P. Morgan and Orson Welles. A rich array of illustrations vintage and personal photographs, film stills, drawings and comic-book art enhance the sense of time travel and parallel histories, as we read of a scheme to transmit wireless energy through the earth, of the electrocution of an elephant, of fortunes made and surrendered, and of the obsessions that propel a scientist seeking to transform the world and a director seeking to make a movie.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2022
• Zusatzinfo: B&W illustrations throughout
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: AC • alternating current • american inventors • Behind the Scenes • Biographical films • Biographies • Biopic • books on science • books on scientists • electrical genius • Ethan Hawke • filmmakers • filmmaking • Film production • films about scientists • Futurist • Innovators • inventors • kyle maclachlan • Making of • Memoirs • Quixotism • scientists • tesla and Edison • tesla coil • Thomas Edison • Wireless
• ISBN-10: 1-68219-286-5 / 1682192865
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68219-286-3 / 9781682192863