Research Catalog

Title

The essential directors : the art and impact of cinema's most influential filmmakers / Sloan De Forest ; forewords by Peter Bogdanovich and Jacqueline Stewart ; photo editor, Manoah Bowman.

Author

De Forest, Sloan

Publication

• New York, NY : Running Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022
• Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970-

Description

xvii, 325 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"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." --

Alternative Title

TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Subjects

• Motion picture industry
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Film criticism
• History
• Biographies
• 1900-1999
• United States
• Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States > History > 20th century
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Film criticism.
• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-314) and index.

Contents

1. Artists of shadow and light : Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, D. W. Griffith, Fritz Lang, Oscar Micheaux, King Vidor, Erich von Stroheim, Lois Weber -- 2. The studio as auteur : Dorothy Arzner, Clarence Brown, Frank Capra, Victor Fleming, Howard Hawks, Mervyn LeRoy, Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian, Leo McCarey, W. S. Van Dyke, Josef von Sternberg -- 3. A threat to the system : George Cukor, Michael Curtiz, John Ford, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli, George Stevens, Preston Sturges, Orson Welles, William Wyler -- 4. The director as star : Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Ida Lupino, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder, Robert Wise, Fred Zinnemann -- 5. The revolution begins : Blake Edwards, Stanley Kramer, Stanley Kubrick, David Lean, Mike Nichols, Roman Polanski -- 6. A whole new Hollywood : Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, Elaine May, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg.

Call Number

MWER 23-3901

ISBN

• 9780762498932
• 0762498935

LCCN

2021937875

OCLC

1268130085

Author

De Forest, Sloan, author.

Title

The essential directors : the art and impact of cinema's most influential filmmakers / Sloan De Forest ; forewords by Peter Bogdanovich and Jacqueline Stewart ; photo editor, Manoah Bowman.

Publisher

New York, NY : Running Press, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-314) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022, writer of foreword.

Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma, 1970- writer of foreword.

Note

At head of title: TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Research Call Number

MWER 23-3901