Hollywood directors, 1914-1940, [compiled by] Richard Koszarski

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Hollywood directors, 1914-1940, [compiled by] Richard Koszarski

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[compiled by] Richard Koszarski

Instantiates

• Hollywood directors, 1914-1940

Publication

• New York, Oxford University Press, 1976

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Includes index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

pt. 1. Pioneers (1914-1920). Evolution of the motion picture / Edwin S. Porter -- Woman's place in photoplay production / Alice Guy-Blaché -- Early history / J. Stuart Blackton -- The present and the future of film / Sidney Olcott -- James Horne's own story / James Horne -- The are of directing / George Fitzmaurice -- Pictures vs. one night stands / D. W. Griffith -- Living your character / William S. Hart -- A dream in realization: an interview / Lois Weber -- The psychology of film comedy / Mack Sennett -- The early days at Kay Bee / Thomas H. Ince -- The motion-picture director / Ida May Park -- Meeting the public demands / Maurice Tourneur -- pt. 2. Silent age (1921-1927). Directing the picture / Rex Ingram -- Acting for the screen: The six great essentials / Marshall Neilan -- Can art be popular? / Charles Chaplin -- Picture making in the South seas / Robert Flaherty -- Foreign atmosphere for the American screen / Robert Florey -- Must they have temperament? / Herbert Brenon -- The hardships of fun making / Harold Lloyd -- Why I never smile / Buster Keaton -- Adaptations / Allan Dwan -- The public is always right / Cecil B. De Mille -- The seamy side of directing / Erich von Stroheim -- The serious side of comedy making / Harry Langdon -- The gag man / Frank Capra -- Directorial training / Edwin Carewe -- pt. 3. Transition to sound (1928-1933). Americanizing the American pictures / Fred Niblo -- Veteran producer muses / John Ford -- The talkers in close-up / Edmund Goulding -- Films of the future / F. W. Murnau -- Illusion on the screen / Paul Fejos -- The director: his problems and qualifications / Monta Bell -- Directing a talking picture / Frank Borzage -- Pictorial beauty in the photoplay / William Cameron Menzies -- Cinematics: some principles underlying effective cinematography / Slavko Vorkapich -- Warriors of the desert / Ernest B. Schoedsack -- Film directing / Ernst Lubitsch -- pt. 4. The dream factory (1934-1940). Rubber stamp movies / King Vidor -- The gag's the thing / Hal Roach -- Some problems in the direction of color pictures / Rouben Mamoulian -- Mickey vs. Popeye / William DeMille -- The voice behind the megaphone / John Cromwell -- R for a thin man / W. S. Van Dyke -- The reign of the director / Lewis Milestone -- The director / George Cukor -- There's profit in sharing profits / Tay Garnett -- Filming in Astoria / William K. Howard -- Thoughts about directing / William Dieterle -- Hollywood bites dog / Frank Tuttle

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2510484

Dimensions

22 cm

Extent

xx, 364 pages

Isbn

9780195020854

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76009262

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations

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.b12072552

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(WaOLN)228816