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Combining narrative analysis and production history, this slender book reminds us why Francis Ford Coppola's first episode in The Godfather trilogy has been accorded the top spot in numerous polls of the greatest film of all time. -- The Independent ...the book most definitely provides readers with a wealth of detail and range of approaches which is surely what the BFI Film Classics series invariably does best. -- Scope

Combining narrative analysis and production history, this slender book reminds us why Francis Ford Coppola's first episode in The Godfather trilogy has been accorded the top spot in numerous polls of the greatest film of all time. -- The Independent ...the book most definitely provides readers with a wealth of detail and range of approaches which is surely what the BFI Film Classics series invariably does best. -- Scope This is a book for all who share the author’s obvious love for the film, written as it is by someone whose deep knowledge of and insights into Coppola’s masterpiece half a century on bring this classic film into sharper perspective. -- Media Education Journal * Liz Roberts *

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Jon Lewis is Professor in the Department of English at Oregon State University, USA. He is the author of a number of books, including American Film: A History (2008), Hollywood v. Hard-Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry (2000) and Whom God Wishes to Destroy ... Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood (1995) and a study of The Godfather Part II in the BFI Film Classics series (forthcoming, BFI, 2022).

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