Fifty Hollywood Directors (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Leonard, Suzanne; Tasker, Yvonne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights.

Each entry discusses a director's practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include:

• Frank Capra
• Cecil B DeMille
• John Ford
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Fritz Lang
• Orson Welles
• DW Griffith
• King Vidor

This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317593942
• Artikelnr.: 41848855

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. She has written, edited and co-edited six books on popular cinema and is the editor of Fifty Contemporary Film Directors. Suzanne Leonard is Associate Professor of English at Simmons College, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Robert Aldrich (1918
1983) Robert Altman (1925
2006) Dorothy Arzner (1897
1979) Frank Capra (1887
1981) John Cassavetes (1929
1989) Charlie Chaplin (1889
1977) Roger Corman (1926
) George Cukor (1899
1983) Michael Curtiz (1886
1962) Ossie Davis (1917
2005) Cecil B DeMille (1881
1959) John Ford (1894
1973) Sam Fuller (1912
1997) DW Griffith (1875
1948) Alice Guy
Blaché (1873
1968) Howard Hawks (1896
1977) Alfred Hitchcock (1899
1980) Elia Kazan (1909
2003) Stanley Kubrick (1928
1999) Fritz Lang (1890
1976) Joseph Losey (1909
1984) Ernst Lubitsch (1892
1947) Ida Lupino (1918
1995) Anthony Mann (1906
1967) Oscar Micheaux (1884
1951) Vincente Minelli (1903
1986) Mike Nichols (1931
) Max Ophuls (1902
1957) Gordon Parks (1912
2006) Alan J Pakula (1928
1998) Sam Peckinpah (1925
1984) Arthur Penn (1922
2010) Roman Polanski (1933
) Otto Preminger (1905
1986) Nicholas Ray (1911
1979) Don Siegel (1912
1991) Robert Siodmak (1900
1973) Douglas Sirk (1900
1987) Victor Sjöström (1879
1960) Josef von Sternberg (1894
1969) Preston Sturgess (1898
1959) Frank Tashlin (1913
1972) Jacques Tourneur (1904
1977) King Vidor (1894
1982) Raoul Walsh (1887
1980) Lois Weber (1881
1939) Orson Welles (1915
1985) James Whale (1889
1957) Billy Wilder (1906
2002) William Wyler (1902
1981)