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Book Synopsis Nick McLean was one of the most acclaimed camera operators in American cinema of the 1970s, during which time he shot many classics of the New Hollywood movement including McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Heaven Can Wait, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, Marathon Man, and Being There. As a cinematographer throughout the 1980s, McLean would film blockbusters such as Cannonball Run II, City Heat, The Goonies, and Short Circuit before being lured into television to photograph some of the biggest shows in town, including Evening Shade, Cybill, and the pop culture phenomenon Friends, for which he was thrice Emmy-nominated.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Foreword by Michael D. O'Shea
Introduction by Nick McLean
Framing New Hollywood
Behind the Blockbusters
Framing Friends and Farewell to Film
The Quiet Men: Two Afterwords
Ireland, Week 1, by Nicolas S. McLean
(aka Nick Jr.) 158
Ireland, Week 2, by Nick McLean
(aka Nick Sr.) 167
The Nick McLean Filmography
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