The Essential Directors - The Art and Impact of Cinema's Most Influential Filmmakers

"For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist's vision is the single most prominent force behind the scenes: the director. The Essential Directors illuminates the unseen forces behind some of the most notable screen triumphs from the aesthetic peak of silent cinema through the New Hollywood of the 1970s. Considering each artist's influence on the medium, cultural impact, and degree of achievement, Turner Classic Movies presents a compendium of Hollywood's most influential filmmakers, with profiles offering history and insight on the filmmaker's narrative style, unique touches, contributions to the medium, key films, and distinctive movie moments to watch for. The work of these game-changing artists is illustrated throughout by more than 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs." --

About the author

Sloan De Forest is an actress, film historian, and the author of Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Sci-fi and Dynamic Dames. She lives in Hollywood, CA.

Turner Classic Movies is the definitive resource for the greatest movies of all time. We entertain and enlighten to show how the entire spectrum of classic movies, movie history, and movie-making touches us all and influences how we think and live today.

Summary

From Turner Classic Movies, this is the essential guide to all the must-know detail on the style, achievements, and landmark films of the most influential directors in cinema history from the silent era through the 1970s.

Foreword

From Turner Classic Movies, this is the essential guide to all the must-know detail on the style, achievements, and landmark films of the most influential directors in cinema history from the silent era through the 1970s.

Product details

• Authors: Sloan De Forest, Sloan De Forest
• Assisted by: Peter Bogdanovich (Foreword), Jacqueline Stewart (Foreword)
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2021
• EAN: 9780762498932
• ISBN: 978-0-7624-9893-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 186 mm x 230 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 1115 g
• Illustrations: 200 Black-and-white and full-color photos throughout
• Series: Turner Classic Movies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography: arts & entertainment, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Biography: arts and entertainment, Film Theory & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference, Film history, theory or criticism, Film guides and reviews, Film Guides & Reviews