Who the Devil Made It

Conversations with legendary film directors

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by Peter Bogdanovich

Type

Interviews

Subject

Director

Keywords

director, interviews, Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh

Publishing date

1997

Publisher

Knopf

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 849 pages
6 ½ x 10 inches (16.5 x 25.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-679-44706-7
978-0-679-44706-1

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Book Presentation:
Peter Bogdanovich, award-winning director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews 16 legendary directors over a 15-year period. Their richly illuminating conversations combine to make this a riveting chronicle of Hollywood and picture making. A Literary Guild Selection. 62 photos.

Press Reviews:
Conversations with Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Aldrich, and other movie directors explore the craft of directing and use interviews with directors to explain how they created individual styles and made their marks in a depersonalized studio system. Enjoy an excellent, involving study from a wide range of creators. -- Midwest Book Review

Peter Bogdanovich's book is an exercise in nostalgia.... It's good to have these interviews, conducted over many years, from 1961 to 1995, with Bogdanovich sometimes going back to a director more than once; and a careful combing of pages, along with a willingness to imagine what isn't always said explicitly, allows you to learn quite a bit about the movies. -- The New York Review of Books, Michael Wood

This is a huge and valuable book, a collection of interviews that Mr. Bogdanovich has conducted since 1960 with 16 great Hollywood directors. Many readers will not have heard of a lot of the films discussed, but the stories stand on their own. They are an oral history of an art form created out of pragmatism, experimentation, instinct and luck. Lurking beneath was the soul of the individual film maker. -- The New York Times Book Review, Roger Ebert

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