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OverviewWhen a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion’s share of the credit. Yet the movie director’s job—especially the collaborations and compromises it involves—remains little understood. The latest volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series, this collection provides the first comprehensive overview of how directing, as both an art and profession, has evolved in tandem with changing film industry practices. Each chapter is written by an expert on a different period of Hollywood, from the silent film era to today’s digital filmmaking, providing in-depth examinations of key trends like the emergence of independent production after World War II and the rise of auteurism in the 1970s. Challenging the myth of the lone director, these studies demonstrate how directors work with a multitude of other talented creative professionals, including actors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers. Directing examines a diverse range of classic and contemporary directors, including Orson Welles, Tim Burton, Cecil B. DeMille, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, and Ida Lupino, offering a rich composite picture of how they have negotiated industry constraints, utilized new technologies, and harnessed the creative contributions of their many collaborators throughout a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Virginia Wright Wexman , Virginia Wright Wexman , Charlie Keil , William LuhrPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.494kg ISBN: 9780813564302ISBN 10: 0813564301 Pages: 220 Publication Date: 31 October 2017 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction Virginia Wright Wexman 1 1. THE SILENT SCREEN, 1895–1927 Cecil B. DeMille Shapes the Director’s Role Charlie Keil 26 2. CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD, 1928–1946 The Company Man and the Boy Genius William Luhr 48 3. POSTWAR HOLLYWOOD, 1947–1967 On Dangerous Ground Sarah Kozloff 68 4. THE AUTEUR RENAISSANCE, 1968–1980 A Culture of Rebellion Daniel Langford 92 5. THE NEW HOLLYWOOD, 1981–1999 Three Case Studies Thomas Schatz 110 6. THE MODERN ENTERTAINMENT MARKETPLACE, 2000–Present Revolutions at Every Scale J. D. Connor 137 Academy Awards for Directing 155 Notes 161 Selected Bibliography 185 Notes on Contributors 189 Index 191Reviews"""A rare and useful contribution to the history of Hollywood film directors - their varied working conditions, their talented collaborators, and their sometimes limited but more often significant contributions to film art.""--James Naremore ""author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge"" ""This fascinating collection of essays by established field historians goes further than any publication to date to challenge the mythologies that have grown up around the auteur director. This is achieved most notably by historical overview of the actual work of the studio director as it has evolved from 1895 to the present."" --Jane Gaines ""author of Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers""" A rare and useful contribution to the history of Hollywood film directors - their varied working conditions, their talented collaborators, and their sometimes limited but more often significant contributions to film art. --James Naremore author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge This fascinating collection of essays by established field historians goes further than any publication to date to challenge the mythologies that have grown up around the auteur director. This is achieved most notably by historical overview of the actual work of the studio director as it has evolved from 1895 to the present. --Jane Gaines author of Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers Author InformationVIRGINIA WRIGHT WEXMAN is Professor Emerita of English and art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of many books including Women and Experimental Filmmaking. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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