Fifty Hollywood Directors
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Fifty Hollywood Directors

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eBook - ePub

Fifty Hollywood Directors

About this book

Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights.

Each entry discusses a director's practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include:

  • Frank Capra

  • Cecil B DeMille

  • John Ford

  • Alfred Hitchcock

  • Fritz Lang

  • Orson Welles

  • DW Griffith

  • King Vidor

This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781317593935
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video
INDEX
Accident 144, 145, 146, 147, 149
Ace in the Hole 290
Across the Wide Missouri 276
Aczona, Maria Del Mar 306
Adam’s Rib 79, 80, 82
Adventures of Robin Hood, The 85, 87
Advise & Consent 186, 187, 188
Agee, James 212
A.I. Artifical Intelligence 338
Aldrich, Robert 4, 54–61
Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The 327
Alfred the Great 148
Alice’s Restaurant 368
Allen, Woody 311, 314
All I Desire 219, 221, 223, 224
Alloway, Lawrence 205
All Quiet on the Western Front 281, 286
All That Heaven Allows 219, 220, 221, 222–24
All the Marbles 59
All the President’s Men 349, 352, 353, 354
Altman, Rick 40
Altman, Robert 100, 277, 303–10, 334, 335, 364
Alton, John 167
America, America 128, 132
American Bandstand 390
American in Paris, An 173, 175, 176, 177
American Tragedy, An 231
Anatomy of a Murder 186, 187
Anderson, Paul Thomas 182, 183, 184
Anderson, Wes 181, 183, 184
Anderson Tapes, The 344
Andrew, Geoff 195, 199
Angel 154
Angel of Broadway, The 50
Angels with Dirty Faces 87, 89
Anger, Kenne...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Also Available from Routledge
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. Silent Hollywood Charlie Chaplin
  10. Cecil B. DeMille
  11. D. W. Griffith
  12. Oscar Micheaux
  13. King Vidor
  14. Lois Weber
  15. Classical Hollywood Robert Aldrich
  16. Dorothy Arzner
  17. Frank Capra
  18. George Cukor
  19. Michael Curtiz
  20. John Ford
  21. Samuel Fuller
  22. Howard Hawks
  23. Alfred Hitchcock
  24. Elia Kazan
  25. Fritz Lang
  26. Joseph Losey
  27. Ernst Lubitsch
  28. Ida Lupino
  29. Anthony Mann
  30. Vincente Minnelli
  31. Max Ophüls
  32. Otto Preminger
  33. Nicholas Ray
  34. Don Siegel
  35. Robert Siodmak
  36. Douglas Sirk
  37. Josef von Sternberg
  38. Preston Sturges
  39. Frank Tashlin
  40. Jacques Tourneur
  41. Raoul Walsh
  42. Orson Welles
  43. William A. Wellman
  44. James Whale
  45. Billy Wilder
  46. William Wyler
  47. New Hollywood Robert Altman
  48. John Cassavetes
  49. Roger Corman
  50. William Friedkin
  51. Stanley Kubrick
  52. Sidney Lumet
  53. Alan J. Pakula
  54. Sam Peckinpah
  55. Arthur Penn
  56. Roman Polanski
  57. Stephanie Rothman
  58. John Waters
  59. Index

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