Overview

An essential text on filmmaking. In this book, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Blake Edwards, Francois Truffaut, and Ren- Clair answer questions on the decisions that all directors must make before filming a movie, the directors' sources of inspiration, and their philosophy of filmmaking.

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Author:   Tay Garnett ,  Anthony Slide ,  Francois Truffaut
Publisher:   Scarecrow Press
Imprint:   Scarecrow Press
Volume:   48
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780810830462

ISBN 10:   0810830469
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   04 June 1996
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Foreword- The Old, Laughing Mariner Part 2 Introduction Part 3 Genesis of a Textbook Chapter 4 Hal Ashby Chapter 5 Alessandro Blasetti Chapter 6 Clarence Brown Chapter 7 Rene Clair Chapter 8 Jack Clayton Chapter 9 Luigi Comencini Chapter 10 George Cukor Chapter 11 Allan Dwan Chapter 12 Blake Edwards Chapter 13 Federico Fellini Chapter 14 Bryan Forbes Chapter 15 Milos Forman Chapter 16 Samuel Fuller Chapter 17 Tay Garnett Chapter 18 Howard Hawks Chapter 19 George Roy Hill Chapter 20 Jan Kadar Chapter 21 Elia Kazan Chapter 22 Henry King Chapter 23 Stanley Kramer Chapter 24 Alberto Lattuada Chapter 25 J. Lee Thompson Chapter 26 Claude Lelouch Chapter 27 Mervyn LeRoy Chapter 28 Louis Malle Chapter 29 Lewis Milestone Chapter 30 Satyajit Ray Chapter 31 Jean Renoir Chapter 32 Alain Resnais Chapter 33 Tony Richardson Chapter 34 Dino Risi Chapter 35 John Schlesinger Chapter 36 Martin Scorsese Chapter 37 Don Siegal Chapter 38 Steven Spielberg Chapter 39 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Chapter 40 Francois Truffaut Chapter 41 King Vidor Chapter 42 Raoul Walsh Chapter 43 Robert Wise Chapter 44 William Wyler Chapter 45 Sergei Yutkevitch Chapter 46 Fred Zinnemann

Reviews

...a fascinating look inside the minds of some of the world's most prominent film directors. Library Journal The questions are intelligent, the replies revealing. Garnett has bequeathed a practical gift to film students, scholars and historians. American Cinematographer

Author Information

Tay Garnett directed such films as One Minute to Zero, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and the 1946 classic The Postman Always Rings Twice.

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