Hollywood Directors 1941-1976

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by Richard Koszarski

Type: Biographies
Subject: Countries > United States
Keywords: Hollywood, director
Publishing date: 1977
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English

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Paperback • 426 pages
5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-19-502218-1
978-0-19-502218-6

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Book Presentation:
A sequel to Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940. The emphasis is on working professionals in Hollywood: how they see their craft and the practical ways in which they work at it.

Contents:
Orson Welles writing about Orson Welles / Orson Welles
Controlling color for dramatic effect / Rouben Mamoulian
"Peccavi!" the true confession of a movie producer / Albert Lewin
Bringing pulham to the screen / King Vidor
Picture partners / John Huston
New characters for the screen / Robert Rossen
Pictures for peanuts / Nick Grinde
Seeing with the camera / Irving Pichel
Breaking Hollywood's "pattern of sameness" / Frank Capra
Music and the animated cartoon / Chuck Jones
No magic wand / William Wyler
Chaplin among the immortals / Jean Renoir
One track mind on a two way ticket / George Seaton
The freedom of the screen / Fritz Lang
Different perspective / Fred Zinnemann
First aid for a sick giant / Lewis Milestone
Production methods compared / Alfred Hitchcock
The producer must be boss / Clarence Brown
The director's art / George Sidney
Directing Death of a Salesman for the screen / Laslo Benedek
A novel isn't a movie / Richard Brooks
Europeans in Hollywood / William Dieterle
Directing in CinemaScope / Henry Koster
Three-dementia / Arch Oboler
Underwater filmmaking / Richard Fleischer
The financing of independent feature films / Terry Sanders
More light / Josef von Sternberg
Talent shortage is causing two-year production delay / Michael Curtiz
Story into script / Nicholas Ray
Introduction to A Face in the Crowd / Elia Kazan
One head is better than two / Billy Wilder
Motion pictures and pay tv / Mervyn Leroy
Hoodlums: the myth / Robert Siodmak
Ben-Hur's chariot race / Andrew Marton
Learning from my mistakes / Robert Aldrich
Words and movies / Stanley Kubrick
My invasion of Marseilles / Joshua Logan
How the west was lost! / John Sturges
No end of stars / Henry King
Empire demolition / Anthony Mann
What is a film? / Samuel Fuller
Criticism as creation / John Frankenheimer
Some notes for young dancers / Gene Kelly
Bonnie an Clyde: private morality and public violence / Arthur Penn
"Well, how do you like directing movies?" / Gene Saks
Me, mother directress / Ida Lupino
The director and the editor / Edward Dmytryk
The young filmmakers / Roger Corman
Anatomy of a chase / William Friedkin
The production of smile / Michael Ritchie