Letters from Hollywood
eBook - ePub

Letters from Hollywood

1977-2017

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Letters from Hollywood

1977-2017

About this book

Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.

Journalist and filmmaker Bill Krohn has been the Los Angeles correspondent for the French magazine Cahiers du cinƩma for over forty years. Letters from Hollywood brings together thirty-four of his essays, many of them appearing in English for the first time. Focusing most pieces on a particular director and film, Krohn uses his inside knowledge of the studio system to illuminate an art that is also a multibillion-dollar business. He connects currents in French film criticism and theory with an unfolding account of American cinema past and present, offering penetrating insights into directors and their work. Beginning with Allan Dwan, who learned how to make movies before Hollywood was born by watching D. W. Griffith, Krohn presents a panorama that encompasses Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and Sergio Leone, Star Wars and I Love Lucy. He covers everything from gangsters to gremlins, from blockbusters to no-budget cult films like Moon Over Harlem and Plan 9 from Outer Space, in a style that is accessible to anyone who loves movies, or has a passion for writing about them.

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Index
Abroad with Two Yanks, 46
Acavone, Joe, 244
Adams, Dawn, 162
AdorƩe, RenƩe [Jeanne de la Fonte], 60
Adorno, Theodor, 149
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The, 3
Adventures of Pinocchio, The, 28
Affleck, Ben, 204
Against the Wall, 203, 206, 207, 208, 209, 212
Ahn, Phillip, 72
AimƩe, Anouk [Nicole FranƧoise Florence Dreyfus], 152, 189
Airplane II: The Sequel, 126ā€“123
Akerman, Chantal, 7, 29
Alda, Alan, 293
Alexander, Max, 120, 121
Alfalfa [Carl Switzer], 275
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 3, 185
Alland, William, 185
Allard, Harry, 269
Allen, Jay Presson, 99
Allen, Joan, 278
Allen, Karen, 249
Allen, Woody, 126, 271ā€“279
Allio, RenƩ, 7
All That Heaven Allows, 58
Almendarez, Val, ix
Almendros, Nestor, 226
Althusser, Louis, 11, 21, 249
Altman, Robert, 54, 187ā€“189
Alton, John, 45
Ambush, 209
American Gigolo, 54
American Graffiti, 260
American Hustle, 293
American Werewolf in London, An, 27
Amerikaner Shadchen, 127, 142
Anderson, Mary, 90, 92, 93
Anderson, Judith, 102
Andersonville, 206
Andrew, Dudley, 44, 115, 142, 145
Andrew, Geoff, 142, 145
Andrews, Dana, 65, 67
Animal House, 275
Annie Hall, 235
Another to Conquer, 124, 125, 127
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 215
Apocalypse Now, 161, 186
Arctic Rampage, 161
Armageddon, 264
Arkush, Allan, 56, 267
ArmendƔriz, Pedro, 207
Arnaz, Desi, 176
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Directors Who Started in Silents
  8. Directors Who Started in Talkies
  9. Directors Who Started in Television
  10. Directors Who Counterattacked
  11. Index
  12. Back Cover