| Description |
303 pages ; 21 cm |
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Pelican books |
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Pelican book.
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| Analysis |
ANDERSON, LINDSAY |
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ANGER, KENNETH |
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ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO |
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AUTHORSHIP |
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BARDEM, JUAN ANTONIO |
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BERGMAN, INGMAR |
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BUNUEL, LUIS |
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CHAPLIN, CHARLES |
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COCTEAU, JEAN |
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DIRECTORS |
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DREYER, CARL TH |
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EJZENSTEJN, SERGEJ M |
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FLAHERTY, ROBERT |
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Fellini, Federico |
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GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK |
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HITCHCOCK, ALFRED |
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KUROSAWA, AKIRA |
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LANG, FRITZ |
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LUMIERE, LOUIS |
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Lean, David |
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PORTER, EDWIN S |
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RENOIR, JEAN |
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RESNAIS, ALAIN |
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RICHARDSON, TONY |
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ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN |
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Ray, Satyajit |
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SENNETT, MACK |
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VERTOV, DZIGA |
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VON STERNBERG, JOSEF |
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VON STROHEIM, ERICH |
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WAJDA, ANDRZEJ |
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WELLES, ORSON |
| Notes |
Does the making of films - a group activity - permit anything that can be called self-expression? Can a director, as the conductor of an orchestra of writers, actors, cameramen and technicians, stamp his personal vision on the films he makes? This and related questions are raised by this collection of statements made by famous directors about their art. Harry Geguld's anthology of "patristic writings" runs from the days (in 1895) when Louis Lumiere filmed a train entering a station, by way of Charlie Chaplin's knockabout ad-libbing, to the sophisticated ruminations of Antonioni and Bergman and the ideas behind the nouvelle vague. Here is D.W. Griffith's scouting the very idea of talking pictures; Mack Sennett on custard pies; Eisenstein on three-dimensional film; Cocteau on the raw materials of illusion; Kurosawa on filming in Japan; Hitchcock on the macabre; and some other twenty leading directors on aspects of their work. In his introduction, Harry Geguld assesses the unique characteristics of motion pictures and comments refreshingly on the eternal controversy of "book into film". [Taken from back cover.] |
| Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors.
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
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| Author |
Geduld, Harry M.
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| ISBN |
0140211012 |
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9780140211016 |
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