Making Fahrenheit 451 “Come to Life”: Sound Inquiries with Youth and Teachers

In 1994 Bradbury placed six stories, more than he had in a number of years, but his fiction continued to miss the major market magazines. Chapter 33 documents the film projects of the mid-1990s—a Fahrenheit 451 screenplay for Mel Gibson, and a script for The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit under consideration with Disney. A collaboration with NASA artist Robert McCall, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and special effects master Douglas Trumbull centered on an IMAX Corporation film theater project titled The City in the Stars, but Bradbury’s storyboard narrative was never produced. The chapter also describes Ray and Maggie Bradbury’s 1994 and 1995 summer sojourns in Paris with American expatriate journalists, and Bradbury’s increasing loss of hearing from mastoiditis.

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Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

The Explicator ◽

10.1080/00144940.1996.9934107 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 (3) ◽

pp. 177-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rafeeq O. McGiveron

Keyword(s):

Fahrenheit 451

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Literacy, Bêtise, and the Production of Species Difference in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

Extrapolation ◽

10.3828/extr.2018.3 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 25-46

Author(s):

Seán McCorry

Keyword(s):

Species Difference ◽

Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451

10.5406/illinois/9780252036293.003.0046 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jonathan R. Eller

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The People ◽

Fahrenheit 451

This chapter examines the changes, revisions, delays, compromises, and other issues, not to mention Ray Bradbury's own concerns, that Fahrenheit 451 had to go through before it could be finally released. As early as January 18, 1953, Bradbury already had a working title—Fahrenheit 270—for a book that would allude to the temperature at which book paper burns. He began to work with Joe Mugnaini on cover illustrations. For his part, Don Congdon was able to convince Doubleday not to interfere with Ballantine's Fahrenheit collection while also handling media negotiations for a Bradbury Showcase concept that was still at play with CBS Television. This chapter provides the background for Fahrenheit 451 and looks at some of the people who worked behind the scenes, including Mugnaini, Congdon, and Stanley Kauffmann.

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