{"title":"Samurai Kabuki","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv160btst.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv160btst.46","url":null,"abstract":"The ghosts that Bradbury had carried since his challenging time in early 1950s Ireland with John Huston were finally laid to rest when Bradbury received an honorary degree from the University of Ireland, Galway, home to the Huston School of Film and Digital Media. Chapter 41 also describes the film adaptation of A Sound of Thunder (2005) and the need to extend this time travel story into a feature film requiring more special effects than the production could afford. In spite of excellent casting and strong performances, the film fell short of the mark for critics and audiences. The chapter also describes Bradbury’s late-life reflections on Japanese and Chinese culture and his attempts to have Samurai Kabuki produced as a film.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126528307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Graveyard for Lunatics","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv160btst.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv160btst.32","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 27 describes the development and publication of A Graveyard for Lunatics, Bradbury’s second exercise in sustained autobiographical fiction within a five-year span. If Death Is a Lonely Business had explored the late 1940s moment when he overcame his fear of losing his creativity, A Graveyard for Lunatics focused on the period in the 1950s and early 1960s when he realized that he must not be swallowed up by his love of writing for Hollywood. Bradbury knew that he would lose all the future stories he would ever write if he assumed the secure but anonymous life of a screenwriter, working only with the works of other writers. The resulting fantasy offered an effective satire of the Hollywood studio system.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115459329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Witness and Celebrate","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv160btst.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv160btst.9","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter five surveys the poems and musical experiments that both distracted Bradbury from story writing and renewed his creativity in the early 1970s. Television and film composer Lalo Schifrin put Bradbury’s Madrigals for the Space Age to music just as Bradbury’s accelerating output of poems led to the first of three volumes of verse with his trade publisher Alfred A. Knopf. His defiant articles on the termination of the Apollo lunar missions culminated in his December 1972 Playboy article, “From Stonehenge to Tranquility Base,” a title image meant to convey the all-too-brief period of human history devoted to reaching the heavens. Chapter five concludes with unsuccessful attempts by the United States government to negotiate a cultural exchange for Bradbury with the Soviet Union.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126714912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Messages in a Bottle","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043413.003.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043413.003.0038","url":null,"abstract":"During the year after his November 1999 stroke, Bradbury worked with his daughter Alexandra and his HarperCollins editor Jennifer Brehl to pull together a new story collection, One More for the Road (2002). Chapter 37 surveys the reception of this collection and the nearly simultaneous Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. The rest of the chapter centers on Let’s All Kill Constance!, Bradbury’s third and final autobiographical novel. Like the first two, it focuses on an emerging mid-century writer who is based on his own memories of a much younger Ray Bradbury; the new novel continues the young writer’s emerging ability to solve the mysteries that began in Death Is a Lonely Business and continued in A Graveyard for Lunatics.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126079512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“My Name Is Dark”","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.5406/j.ctv160btst.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv160btst.22","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 18 centers on the 1982 filming of Something Wicked This Way Comes by Disney Studios, and the 1982-1983 reshooting and reediting stages of production. Producer Peter Douglas and his father Kirk Douglas were able to convince Disney to finance the film, with Jack Clayton as director. Bradbury’s 1976 script was subsequently reworked by Clayton and British writer John Mortimer. Bradbury’s reaction to these changes, his fascination with the Green Town set built on the Disney studio lot, and the dynamics of the reshooting relationships between Bradbury, Clayton, and the studio form the focus of chapter 18. The chapter concludes with post-production work and promotions involving Orson Welles and Bradbury, and a brief summary of the critical reactions and awards the film received.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126870209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harvest Time","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252043413.003.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043413.003.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 32 begins with Bradbury’s reaction to news of Federico Fellini’s death on Halloween, 1993, and explores Bradbury’s sense of Halloween as a time of “fervor and excitement,” but not a time of happiness. Bradbury’s reflections on the later Fellini films gives way to the more positive process of bringing The Halloween Tree back to its original concept as an animated film with Hanna-Barbera and the Turner Broadcasting System. The chapter concludes with Bradbury’s work on two unrealized science fiction film projects, a proposed remake of the 1950s classic Forbidden Planet and short-lived plans for a sequel to The Day the Earth Stood Still. The chapter concludes with an examination of “Beyond Giverny,” Bradbury’s speculative American Way essay on life in the cosmos.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122698912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembrance","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252043413.003.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043413.003.0045","url":null,"abstract":"Bradbury felt great responsibility for the gift of life, and chapter 44 opens with a survey of his allusions to remembrance in his fiction and unpublished notes. Preserved memories from the distant past ranged from old phonograph records his mother would play for him in the 1920s to remembered color photographs of King Tutankhamen’s golden death mask. The chapter also chronicles his friendship with Carla Laemmle, one of the last silent film actresses; the 2009 radio production of Leviathan 99, Bradbury’s last collaboration with radio legend Norman Corwin; and Bradbury’s gentle decline and death on June 5, 2012. Bradbury’s passing was noticed around the world, prompting reflections on the transmission of his best early work through generations of readers.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133763394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Teller of Tales","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.3138/9781487576035-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576035-002","url":null,"abstract":"Bradbury’s six-year odyssey to celebrate and explore the history of Halloween opens chapter 3, culminating in the shift from a screen project to the 1972 publication of The Halloween Tree. In 1972 Bradbury also opened the “Cosmic Evolution” lecture series in San Francisco, sponsored in part by the NASA/Ames Research Center. Chapter 3 concludes with Bradbury’s entry into the world of writing conferences, first with Writer’s Community at Squaw Valley and then with the annual Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference, where he would lecture and work with writers for more than thirty years. At the urging of Shel Dorf, Bradbury’s role as a perennial featured presence at the San Diego Comic Con also began in the early 1970s.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133988008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visions of Mars","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043413.003.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043413.003.0044","url":null,"abstract":"The digitized copy of The Martian Chronicles, along with many other stories, novels, and science fiction art inspired by the Red Planet, finally reached Mars aboard the Phoenix lander in 2008. Chapter 43 describes Bradbury’s final trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory the following year, the publication of his last story collection, We’ll Always Have Paris (2008), and the passing of Don Congdon, his agent for more than sixty years. Bradbury had come to measure each story he finished as one more victory over death, but the stories were coming more slowly now. Bradbury’s reflections on mortality during the final decades of his life, and his unfinished plans for a final story collection, close out chapter 43.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125622921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Closing the Book","authors":"Jonathan R. Eller","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043413.003.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043413.003.0046","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 45 concludes Bradbury Beyond Apollo with an assessment of his legacy, prefaced by an account of the memorial to Bradbury staged by the Planetary Society as the Mars rover Curiosity landed in early August 2012. Chapter 45 wraps up the three-volume biography with a summary of the well-known early story collections and novels that anchor Bradbury’s twenty-first century reputation, and a parallel summation of the important achievements of the last forty years of his career. These include The Halloween Tree’s affirmation of life over death, the six-year run of Ray Bradbury Theater, the role of “The Toynbee Convector” as Bradbury’s settled view on human endeavor, his visionary but sometimes controversial articles, and his delicate but compelling Somewhere a Band Is Playing.","PeriodicalId":305082,"journal":{"name":"Bradbury Beyond Apollo","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116858114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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