Race to Dakar
by Charley Boorman
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Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exhibition and curatorship. The Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, and the National Fairground and Circus Archive in Sheffield, UK serve as exemplary sites of historical mediation show more between early and silent cinema and the digital age. A range of elements, from preservation protocols to technologies of display and from museum architectures to curatorial discourses in blogs, catalogs, and interviews, shape what the author innovatively theorizes as the archive's hermeneutic dispositif. Archival Film Curatorship offers film and preservation scholars a unique take on the shifting definitions, histories, and uses of the medium of film by those tasked with preserving and presenting it to new digital-age audiences. show lessTags
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It is worth remembering in reading this book that it is marketed alongside a DVD and a T-shirt because one has the impression that it is more or less a "word dump", i.e. that Charley and his mates recorded their stories, then passed them along to ghost writer Robert Uhlig to craft something serviceable. Uhlig did create a book that reads reasonably well, though it helped that the engine driving the book is this insanely frantic race, "the Dakar". Despite the book's modest ambitions and the fact that it is basically an enjoyable read, there is the problem that one can learn more about the Dakar from a glance at wikipedia than from Race to Dakar's almost 300 pages. Would it have killed them to do some research and to interweave the result show more into this tale of endless bike spills and equipment malfunctions? Yes it has to be about these details but without some larger exposition and narrative it can read like just so much sound and fury. Boorman and his team made an extraordinary effort to get to Dakar. With a fraction of that effort they could have made this more than the literary equivalent of a T-shirt. show less
Reasonably interesting, but a tad repetitive. Only so many ways to describe the impressive amount of endurance, technique and willpower needed to complete the race.Became more interesting when the different riders had their own perspectives.
Think it would work better as a documentary.
Fascinating account of the 2006 Race to Dakar and all its pitfalls. Interesting to hear the mixed experiences and thoughts of members of the team - both good and bad for economies, environment etc
Charley has a great conversational style and after watching Long Way Round/Down countless times as I read the book I can sometimes here his voice. If you like bikes and you follow the Dakar rally you will enjoy this book
Great book to accompany the TV series- Charley and his team gives an amazing account of what it's like to ride in the Dakar. LIght reading, but a great one.
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- Charley Boorman
- Related movies
- Race to Dakar (2006 | IMDb)
- Dedication
- To Doone, Kinvara and Olivia for being there for me.
Also for Boubcar Diallo and Mohammed Ndaw, two spectators who were tragically killed on the rally. Our hearths go out to their families and friends.
And Andy... (show all) Caldecott, who lost his life in this year's rally, and for all those brave riders that fell before him. - First words
- We were in an office somewhere, and our book had just been brought into the room. (Foreword by Ewan McGregor)
It's early in the morning of New Year's Eve and I am climbing into a taxi outside a luxury hotel in Lisbon, feeling strangely calm. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And, as a team, we'd made it.
- Disambiguation notice
- The book of the TV series. Please do not combine with the DVD.
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