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Hollywood directors, 1914-1940

Humor & Entertainment

Koszarski, Richard

Movies

Oxford University Press

Hollywood Directors, 1941-1976

426-page guide to 50 Hollywood directors, starting with Orson Welles to Michael Ritchie in the years between 1941 and 1976

Hollywood directors, 1941-1976

When Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood to film Citizen Kane he discovered a town still top-heavy with glamour. Legendary stars looked down from every screen and fabulous moguls ruled over a studio system that had been growing in strength for two decades or more. But even as Welles made his first wondrous tour of the RKO lot the handwriting was on the wall. In the decades since, Hollywood has become a staging area for multinational talent packages and the only really stars are those in the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard. Hollywood Directors 1941-1976 is a history of these crucial years told by those who made it happen: the directors who led the cinema revolution as well as those who perished in it. The questions, opinions, fears and desires are those written down in the heat of battle by fifty of Hollywood's most outspoken directors, including Hitchcock, Kubrick, Renoir, and Capra. Their topics range from Ben-Hur's chariot race to B-pictures, from cartoons to film critics. In bringing together these articles, few of which have seen the light of day since their first appearance, Koszarski gives us a unique insight into the work of Hollywood's foremost filmmakers. From Orson Welles's first caustic comments on the producer system to the aggressive independent filmmakers of today, there is the inside story of the most hectic and exasperating years of Hollywood history. Richard Koszarski is Professor of English at Rutgers University and the editor-in-chief of Film History: An International Journal.

Describes the life of the film actor and director, Erich von Stroheim, and discusses the development of his career in Hollywood

The Man You Loved To Hate: Erich Von Stroheim and Hollywood

Biographies & Memoirs

“Keep ’Em in the East”: Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance (Film and Culture Series)

The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York's film industry: Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, and, more quietly, Stanley Kubrick released the low-budget classic Killer's Kiss. A wave of films that changed how American movies were made soon followed, led by directors such as Sidney Lumet, William Friedkin, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. Yet this resurgence could not have occurred without a deeply rooted tradition of local film production. Richard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York's postwar film renaissance, looking beyond such classics as Naked City, Kiss of Death, and Portrait of Jennie. He examines the social, cultural, and economic forces that shaped New York filmmaking, from city politics to union regulations, and shows how decades of low-budget independent production taught local filmmakers how to capture the city's grit, liveliness, and allure. He reveals the importance of "race films"--all-Black productions intended for segregated African American audiences--that not only helped keep the film business afloat but also nurtured a core group of writers, directors, designers, and technicians. Detailed production histories of On the Waterfront and Killer's Kiss--films that appear here in a completely new light--illustrate the distinctive characteristics of New York cinema. Drawing on a vast array of research--including studio libraries, censorship records, union archives, and interviews with participants--"Keep 'Em in the East" rewrites a crucial chapter in the history of American cinema.

Columbia University Press

The silent cinema was America's first modern entertainment industry, a complex social, cultural, and technological phenomenon that swept the country in the early years of the twentieth century. Richard Koszarski examines the underlying structures that made the silent-movie era work, from the operations of eastern bankers to the problems of neighborhood theater musicians. He offers a new perspective on the development of this major new industry and art form and the public's response to it.

An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 (History of the American Cinema) (Volume 3)

University of California Press

This award-winning examination of the American film industry has already been acclaimed as A major achievement in film history, unlikely to be surpassed for many years (American Historical Review) and an indispensable| set (Film Quarterly) that |should become the standard reference work in every American library| (Choice). 
The 10-volume, illustrated series considers the film industry from its early roots in the 19th century right up to 1990. It examines the development of film and the film industry, analyzing both the genres, themes and technology that defined each decade and the political and economic background that gave rise to them. Each volume focuses on a separate decade, providing a narrative on the evolution of both the business and the art of film in America. Each volume is heavily illustrated, and ends with several indexes, notes, a bibliography and a variety of appendixes of top-grossing films, stars and Oscar winners, and more.
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An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 (History of the American Cinema, 3)

History

Charles scribner' Sons

Karl Struss (1886-1981) was a master of both still and motion picture photography. A native of New York City, he first studied photography with Clarence White and soon mastered the tenets of pictorialism. Alfred Stieglitz featured his work in a 1910 exhibition and a 1912 issue of Camera Work and invited Struss to become a member - as it turned out, the last member - of the Photo-Secession. New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss surveys this consummate artist's long career with the camera, including his pioneering color photography using the autochrome process, his photographic explorations of New York and Europe before War World I, his images of Hollywood stars and western landscapes and seascapes, and his motion picture work. Essayist Bonnie Yochelson surveys his early work in New York, Richard Koszarski his career in cinematography, and Barbara McCandless examines how Struss' background and early work not only led him to Hollywood but greatly contributed to the artistry of the still-young film industry there. John and Susan Edwards Harvith, who rediscovered Struss' work in the 1970's and interviewed him at length in his later years, round out the portrait of both the man and the artist.

New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss

Arts & Photography

Yochelson, Bonnie

McCandless, Barbara

Photography & Video

Univ of New Mexico Pr

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Hollywood directors, 1914-1940

Hollywood directors, 1941-1976

Hollywood Directors, 1941-1976

The Man You Loved To Hate: Erich Von Stroheim and Hollywood

The Man You Loved To Hate: Erich Von Stroheim and Hollywood

“Keep ’Em in the East”: Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance (Film and Culture Series)

“Keep ’Em in the East”: Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance (Film and Culture Series)

An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 (History of the American Cinema) (Volume 3)

An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 (History of the American Cinema, 3)

New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss