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Hollywood directors, 1914-1940 / [compiled by] Richard Koszarski.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Production and direction.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- United States.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biography.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- California--Los Angeles--Hollywood.
- Cinéma--Production et réalisation.
- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma--États-Unis--Biographies.
- Local Subjects:
- Cinéma--Production et réalisation.
- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma--États-Unis--Biographies.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1976.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hollywood directors, 1914-1940.
- ISBN:
- 0195020855
- 9780195020854
- OCLC:
- 2510484
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