Awards
- Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1993
- Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1993.
- Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1993.
Overview
Offers filmographies for more than seven hundred American and world cinematographers from 1915 through 1990.
Full Product Details
Author: William Darby
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Imprint: Scarecrow Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780810824546
ISBN 10: 081082454
Pages: 1071
Publication Date: 01 December 1991
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Darby's checklist is the most extensive work available...an essential addition to any extensive collection that supports research in the history and art of cinema. * American Reference Books Annual * ...an invaluable source of reliable information. * American Cinematographer * ...quite useful...will undoubtedly be a well received reference work... * Classic Images * ...this is a labor of love-and a must for a serious reference library. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly * Superb!..this is a major breakthrough...a wonderful masterlist...meticulous...warrants an Academy award of its own. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * ...only Masters of Lens and Light offers comprehensive coverage...unique contribution. * Wilson Library Bulletin * Darby's checklist is the most extensive work available...an essential addition to any extensive collection that supports research in the history and art of cinema. American Reference Books Annual ...an invaluable source of reliable information. American Cinematographer ...quite useful...will undoubtedly be a well received reference work... Classic Images ...this is a labor of love-and a must for a serious reference library. Communication Booknotes Quarterly Superb!..this is a major breakthrough...a wonderful masterlist...meticulous...warrants an Academy award of its own. Highly recommended. CHOICE ...only Masters of Lens and Light offers comprehensive coverage...unique contribution. Wilson Library Bulletin
Darby's checklist is the most extensive work available...an essential addition to any extensive collection that supports research in the history and art of cinema. * American Reference Books Annual * ...an invaluable source of reliable information. * American Cinematographer * ...quite useful...will undoubtedly be a well received reference work... * Classic Images * ...this is a labor of love-and a must for a serious reference library. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly * Superb!..this is a major breakthrough...a wonderful masterlist...meticulous...warrants an Academy award of its own. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * ...only Masters of Lens and Light offers comprehensive coverage...unique contribution. * Wilson Library Bulletin *
Darby's checklist is the most extensive work available...an essential addition to any extensive collection that supports research in the history and art of cinema. Arba ...an invaluable source of reliable information. American Cinematographer ...quite useful...will undoubtedly be a well received reference work... Classic Images ...this is a labor of love--and a must for a serious reference library. Communication Booknotes Superb!..this is a major breakthrough...a wonderful masterlist...meticulous...warrants an Academy award of its own. Highly recommended. Choice ...only Masters of Lens and Light offers comprehensive coverage...unique contribution. Wilson Library Bulletin
Darby's checklist is the most extensive work available...an essential addition to any extensive collection that supports research in the history and art of cinema. American Reference Books Annual ...an invaluable source of reliable information. American Cinematographer ...quite useful...will undoubtedly be a well received reference work... Classic Images ...this is a labor of love-and a must for a serious reference library. Communication Booknotes Superb!..this is a major breakthrough...a wonderful masterlist...meticulous...warrants an Academy award of its own. Highly recommended. CHOICE ...only Masters of Lens and Light offers comprehensive coverage...unique contribution. Wilson Library Bulletin
Author Information
William Darby has taught English and film at various colleges and universities in southeastern Michigan since 1974, when his doctoral dissertation on Sir Walter Scott was completed at Wayne State University. He has published Necessary American Fictions; Popular Literature of the 1950s (Popular Press, 1987) and American Film Music (McFarland, 1990), co-authored with Jack Du Bois.
