Raoul Walsh - The True Adventures of Hollywood''s Legendary Director

Raoul Walsh (1887-1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors-along with John Ford and Howard Hawks-who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh's generation invented a Hollywood that made mov

A propos de l'auteur

Marilyn Ann Moss is the author of Giant: George Stevens, A Life on Film and has published numerous articles on writers such as Paul Bowles, Theodore Dreiser, and Frank Norris. She was a television critic for The Hollywood Reporter from 1995 to 2009.

Résumé

Walsh's generation invented a Hollywood that made movies seem bigger than life itself. In the first ever full-length biography of Raoul Walsh, author Marilyn Ann Moss recounts Walsh's life and achievements in a career that spanned more than half a century and produced upwards of two hundred films, many of them cinema classics.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Marilyn Ann Moss
• Edition: University Press of Kentucky
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.08.2013
• EAN: 9780813144443
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-4444-3
• Pages: 528
• Thèmes: Screen Classics; Screen Classics
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Biographies, autobiographies; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Théâtre, ballet