Ira B. Nadel, Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller (Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 2010), p.108.
Preminger’s film features several maps, but none of them works to situate the viewer geographically throughout its 119 minutes.
‘Published on 23 September 1958, the book had a distinctive blue cover with “EXODUS” in type that evoked Hebrew lettering. A freedom fighter stretched the complete length of the book jacket, his rifle barrel casually pointing upward to the author's name. Maps are used for the endpapers and to introduce each of the five books of the novel (an intentional parallel with the five books of Moses that make up the Torah). A biblical quotation accompanies each of the maps that introduce an individual section. Additionally, a map of the Middle East emphasizing the minuscule region of Israel appears inside the front cover. The rear map is a close-up of the country , the verso the northern part of the land, the recto the southern. Uris clearly felt the need to situate the reader geographically throughout his 626 pages.’
Ira B. Nadel, Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller (Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 2010), p.108. Preminger’s film features several maps, but none of them works to situate the viewer geographically throughout its 119 minutes.
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