Ken Dancyger is the author of numerous books on screenwriting, editing, and production. He conducts screenwriting forums and workshops in North America, Europe, and Asia. A past chair of Undergraduate studies in the Department of Film and Television at NYU, he is currently Professor of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Part I, What the Director Does: Introduction
The Director's Idea
The Competent Director
The Good Director
The Great Director
Text Interpretation
The Camera
The Actor
Part II, Case Studies: Sergei Eisenstein
John Ford
George Stevens
Billy Wilder
Ernst Lucitsch
Elia Kazan
Francois Truffaut
Roman Polanski
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Margarethe Von Trotta
Lukas Moodysson
Catharine Breillat
Mary Harron
Conclusion
Appendix
