George Cukor''s People - Acting for a Master Director

In this groundbreaking, lavishly illustrated critical study, Joseph McBride provides insightful and revealing essayistic portraits of George Cukor's actors in their most memorable roles.

About the author

Joseph McBride is a film historian and a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is the author of biographies of Frank Capra, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg; three books on Orson Welles; and critical studies of Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, and the Coen Brothers. He acted for Welles in The Other Side of the Wind and has won a Writers Guild of America award.

Summary

In this groundbreaking, lavishly illustrated critical study, Joseph McBride provides insightful and revealing essayistic portraits of George Cukor’s actors in their most memorable roles.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph McBride, McBride Joseph
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2024
• EAN: 9780231210829
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21082-9
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; Television, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director