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Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute

Author : George Stevens, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307518124
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute written by George Stevens, Jr. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The first book to bring together interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers, offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners. Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang (“I learned only from bad films”), William Wyler, and George Stevens; renowned producers and cinematographers; celebrated screenwriters Ray Bradbury and Ernest Lehman; as well as the immortal Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini (“Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It’s absolutely impossible to improvise”). Taken together, these conversations offer uniquely intimate access to the thinking, the wisdom, and the genius of cinema’s most talented pioneers.

Great American Film Directors in Photographs

Author : Richard Koszarski
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486247526
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Great American Film Directors in Photographs written by Richard Koszarski and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows nearly two hundred directors, from D.W. Griffith to Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg, at work making movies

Great American Film Directors

Author : Dian G. Smith
Publisher : Julian Messner
ISBN 13 : 9780671502317
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Great American Film Directors written by Dian G. Smith and published by Julian Messner. This book was released on 1987 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the lives and accomplishments of ten famous directors, including D.W. Griffith, John Ford, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, and Orson Welles.

Ten American Movie Directors

Author : Anne E. Hill
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780766018365
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Ten American Movie Directors written by Anne E. Hill and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiling the lives of individuals of a certain renown or certain field, these collective biographies are of value to libraries because they present sketches of a number of important people for the price of a single volume. Useful for reports, these books discuss the contributions of ten or more men and women individually, as well as in relation to the overall theme in the particular volume. Each book contains chapter notes, Internet addresses, and an index.Exceptional movie directors have the ability to tell a story through camera angles, scenery and actors. Their artistry takes us on a journey into another place and time. Their unique eye behind the camera grants them the ability to bring a vision to life creating some of the most unforgettable scenes in movie history. Read about Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, and Quentin Tarantino.

Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers

Author : George Stevens, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307474984
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers written by George Stevens, Jr. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.’s much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the pioneering moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age, this time with a focus on filmmakers of the 1950s to present day. The Next Generation brings together conversations with moviemakers at work from the 1950s—during the studios’ decline—to today’s Hollywood. Directors, producers, writers, actors, cinematographers, composers, film editors, and independent filmmakers appear within these pages, including Steven Spielberg, Nora Ephron, George Lucas, Sidney Poitier, Meryl Streep, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, and more. We see how the filmmakers of today and those of Hollywood's Golden Age face the same challenges of both art and craft—to tell compelling stories on the screen. And we see the ways in which actors and directors work together, how each director has his or her own approach, and how they share techniques and theories.

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute

Author : George Stevens, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400033144
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute written by George Stevens, Jr. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to bring together these interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners. Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang (“I learned only from bad films”), William Wyler, and George Stevens; renowned producers and cinematographers; celebrated screenwriters Ray Bradbury and Ernest Lehman; as well as the immortal Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini (“Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It’s absolutely impossible to improvise”). Taken together, these conversations offer uniquely intimate access to the thinking, the wisdom, and the genius of cinema’s most talented pioneers.

Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers

Author : Robert Schnakenberg
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594747423
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers written by Robert Schnakenberg and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange-But-True Tales of Cross-Dressers, Drug Addicts, Foot Fetishists, and Other Legendary Filmmakers. With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from D. W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino, Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers reveals the little-known secrets of all your favorite directors. Why did Charlie Chaplin refuse to bathe for weeks at a time? Was Alfred Hitchcock really missing a belly button? Is Walt Disney’s corpse preserved in a state of suspended animation? And why on earth did Francis Ford Coppola direct a 3-D pornographic movie? The legends of the silver screen will never be the same!

The American Cinema

Author : Andrew Sarris
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306807282
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The American Cinema written by Andrew Sarris and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1996-08-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Cinema is the Citizen Kane of film criticism, a brilliant book that elevated American directors from craftsmen to artists, launched the careers of numerous film critics, and shaped the aesthetics of a whole generation of viewers by providing new ways of looking at movies."--Emanuel Levy, author of George Cukor, Master of Elegance The auteur theory, of which film critic Andrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the strictures of studios, producers, and scriptwriters, manage to infuse each film in their oeuvre with their personal style. Sarris's The American Cinema, the bible of auteur studies, is a history of American film in the form of a lively guide to the work of two hundred film directors, from Griffith, Chaplin, and von Sternberg to Mike Nichols, Stanley Kubrick, and Jerry Lewis. In addition, the book includes a chronology of the most important American films, an alphabetical list of over 6000 films with their directors and years of release, and the seminal essays "Toward a Theory of Film History" and "The Auteur Theory Revisited." Over twenty-five years after its initial publication, The American Cinema remains perhaps the most influential book ever written on the subject.

The Name Above The Title

Author : Frank Capra
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306807718
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Name Above The Title written by Frank Capra and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1997-03-22 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Frank Capra (1897–1991) is best known as the director of It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, and It's a Wonderful Life, he was also an award-winning documentary filmmaker as well as a behind-the-scene force in the Director's Guild, the Motion Picture Academy, and the Producer's Guild. He worked with or knew socially everyone in the movie business from Mack Sennett, Chaplin, and Keaton in the silent era through the illustrious names of the golden age. He directed Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, and others. Reading his autobiography is like having Capra sitting in your living room, regaling you with his anecdotes. In The Name Above the Title he reveals the deeply personal story of how, despite winning six Academy Awards, he struggled throughout his life against the glamors, vagaries, and frustrations of Hollywood for the creative freedom to make some of the most memorable films of all time.

The Last Great American Picture Show

Author : Alexander Horwath
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053566317
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Last Great American Picture Show written by Alexander Horwath and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a major evaluation of the 1970s American cinema, including cult film directors such as Bogdanovich Altman and Peckinpah.

Great Movie Directors

Author : Ted Sennett
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Great Movie Directors written by Ted Sennett and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the men and women who have directed Hollywood films. Lavishly illustrated ; covers the careers of more than 200 directors, mostly American, from the first silent movies up to the present.

Film Directors on Directing

Author : John A. Gallagher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313390282
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Film Directors on Directing written by John A. Gallagher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1989-05-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent director and screenwriter John Andrew Gallagher, interviews 21 filmmakers on the craft of motion picture directing. Francois Truffaut, the late great French director, as well as Michael Cimino, Ulu Grosbard, Dennis Hopper, Alan Parker, Susan Seidelman, Joan Micklin Silver and many others reveal behind-the-scenes anecdotes about well known films and stars. The big gamblers who spend millions per film as well as the colorful low-budget kings provide an intriguing look at the mechanics of filmmaking. Choosing and preparing the screenplay, working with actors and crew, dealing with the distributor, and advice to young filmmakers--all are covered in this book's illuminating interviews. Serious students of cinema, filmmakers, movie buffs, and people fascinated by film will find Film Directors on in this book's illuminating interviews.

The Essential Directors

Author : Sloan De Forest
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780762498932
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Directors written by Sloan De Forest and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist's vision is the single most prominent force behind the scenes: the director. The Essential Directors illuminates the unseen forces behind some of the most notable screen triumphs from the aesthetic peak of silent cinema through the New Hollywood of the 1970s. Considering each artist's influence on the medium, cultural impact, and degree of achievement, Turner Classic Movies presents a compendium of Hollywood's most influential filmmakers, with profiles offering history and insight on the filmmaker's narrative style, unique touches, contributions to the medium, key films, and distinctive movie moments to watch for. The work of these game-changing artists is illustrated throughout by more than 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs. Featured directors include Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, Oscar Micheaux, Lois Weber, Dorothy Arzner, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, W. S. Van Dyke, John Ford, Orson Welles, William Wyler, Alfred Hitchcock, Ida Lupino, Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kramer, David Lean, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg.

Great Film Directors

Author : Leo Braudy
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Film Directors written by Leo Braudy and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Film Directors

Author : Ronald Friedland
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531011102
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book American Film Directors written by Ronald Friedland and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the work of six major American film directors and, more briefly, several newer directors.

Contemporary North American Film Directors

Author : Yoram Allon
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364529
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary North American Film Directors written by Yoram Allon and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Encompassing the careers of up to 600 directors - over 60 new to this edition - working in the US and Canada today, this volume is an invaluable reference for students, researchers and enthusiasts of film and popular culture. Each entry provides biographical information as well as insightful textual and thematic analysis of the director's work. In comprehensively covering a wide range of film-makers - from more established mainstream luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and Kathryn Bigelow, through independent mavericks like Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch and the Coen brothers, to innovative emerging talents including Marc Forster (Monster's Ball), Todd Field (In the Bedroom) and David Gordon Green (George Washington) - the shifting landscape of contemporary film-making is brought into sharp focus." Sur la 4e de couv.

Post-Classical Hollywood

Author : Barry Langford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748643214
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Post-Classical Hollywood written by Barry Langford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945. Nonetheless, at the start of a new century Hollywood's worldwide dominance is intact - indeed, in today's global economy the products of the American entertainment industry (of which movies are now only one part) are more ubiquitous than ever. How does today's "e;Hollywood"e; - absorbed into transnational media conglomerates like NewsCorp., Sony, and Viacom - differ from the legendary studios of Hollywood's Golden Age? What are the dominant frameworks and conventions, the historical contexts and the governing attitudes through which films are made, marketed and consumed today? How have these changed across the last seven decades? And how have these evolving contexts helped shape the form, the style and the content of Hollywood movies, from Singin' in the Rain to Pirates of the Caribbean? Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of "e;post-classical"e; Hollywood cinema - its coherence, its historical justification and how it can help or hinder our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to the present. Integrating film history, discussion of movies' social and political dimensions, and analysis of Hollywood's distinctive methods of storytelling, Post-Classical Hollywood charts key critical debates alongside the histories they interpret, while offering its own account of the "e;post-classical."e; Wide-ranging yet concise, challenging and insightful, Post-Classical Hollywood offers a new perspective on the most enduringly fascinating artform of our age.