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Creating books from the top of a hill in Hebden! A small indie publisher from North Yorkshire.

Hebden, North Yorkshire
Joined March 2023
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Our first paperback is now available in our online shop! open-space-books.sumupstore.…
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Cinematic detective work of the first order and a defence of screwed-over writers. A must read.
Ever wonder how Hollywood big-shots manage to steal credit from nobodies - and never get called out for it? Irfan Shah's devastatingly forensic dissection of arrogant pig™ Richard Curtis and his "cunning plan" might well be the definitive exposé.
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There is much more here: astudyinlight.substack.com/p…
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@SkydMarxx Enter Jack Barth's Misfortunate Universe once more, in a new post on the 'true' story behind Working Title's 'Yesterday'... astudyinlight.substack.com/p…
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Here's a new, free post on the same story: astudyinlight.substack.com/p…
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You can find a pretty detailed telling of this story here. astudyinlight.substack.com/p… And there's more to come...
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3/ I’ll write more soon about a couple of specific scenes. A great sense of unfairness pervades the whole story. Plus – a really nice screenplay was replaced by a big, clunking behemoth of a script and deserves to be re-discovered.
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2/ Profound hurt - professional (in my opinion) and personal (definitely) - caused by Richard Curtis seemingly claiming that he only took the idea of a world in which one person remembers The Beatles, and wrote everything else from scratch.
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1/ Difficult to summarise (for legal reasons!) In a nutshell: high concept, seems clearly to be Jack’s (in my opinion). Best bits of Yesterday, informed by Jack’s screenplay (in my opinion – it’s all subjective, isn’t it?) Jack has no argument with credits, fee etc but….
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Who actually came up with the idea for the film, Yesterday? Jack Barth or Richard Curtis?
The Misfortunate Universe of Jack Barth - my substack post and a piece of cinematic investigative journalism. substack.com/@astudyinlight/…
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#Yorkshire "A yellow sun rising clear of the flaked strips of cloud that hung about the mid­dle blue of heaven, and a low wind shaking the budding heather-tips and wrinkling the surface of standing pools" Halliwell Sutcliffe amazon.co.uk/Shameless-Wayne…
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#Yorkshire "A yellow sun rising clear of the flaked strips of cloud that hung about the mid­dle blue of heaven, and a low wind shaking the budding heather-tips and wrinkling the surface of standing pools" Halliwell Sutcliffe amazon.co.uk/Shameless-Wayne…
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And this is a fascinating but grim tale about Curtis as well: astudyinlight.substack.com/p…
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A perfect story for cinephile armchair detectives!
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A perfect story for cinephile armchair detectives!
Fantastic analytical piece about the cinematic credit-hoggery of arrogant, superprivileged uberhack Richard Curtis. Best stuff is behind the paywall, so g'wan, treat yourself.
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The Shadow Traps material on lost film pioneer, Louis Le Prince is always worth a look. Support the project if you can!
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We’ve been in partnership with the Shadow Traps podcast on lost film pioneer, Louis Le Prince for a while now. Their Patreon page is a treasure chest of material for all those fascinated by motion picture history. Go take a look and support if you can!
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Watch Misan Harriman's Free Word Lecture, reflecting on the power of stories, images and testimony to shape how societies see themselves and remember their histories. 🔗: youtu.be/NUfEWHqUY2A #MisanHarriman #BlackLivesMatter #Photography #BradfordLitFest
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