The director's idea : the path to great directing / Ken Dancyger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dancyger, Ken.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

As a director, you must have a concept, a ""director's idea"", to shape your approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. With this clear idea your film will be deeper and more effective, and you will be able to differentiate--and therefore make the choice--between competent directing and great directing. Using case studies of famous directors as real-world examples of ""director's ideas"", the author has provided the theory and the practice to help directors immediately improve their work.

Contents:

pt. I: What the director does. Introduction

The director's idea

The competent director

The good director

The great director

Text interpretation

The camera

The actor

pt. II: The case studies of directing. Sergei Eisenstein : the historical dialectic

John Ford : poetry and heroism

George Stevens : the American character : desire and conscience

Billy Wilder : existence at stake

Ernst Lubitsch : the life force of romance

Elia Kazan : drama as life

Francois Truffaut : celebrate the child

Roman Polanski : the aloneness of existence

Stanley Kubrick : the darkness of modern life

Steven Spielberg : childhood forever

Margarethe Von Trotta : historical life and personal life intersect

Lukas Moodysson : empathy and its limits

Catherine Breillat : the warfare of sexuality

Mary Harron : celebrity and banality

Conclusion

Appendix: Finding the director's idea.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786610636525

9781136068775

1136068775

9781136068782

1136068783

9781280636523

1280636521

9780080465081

0080465080

OCLC:

476020207