Format:
Book
Title:
Great film directors : a critical anthology / edited by Leo Braudy and Morris Dickstein.
Call Number:
791.430233 G798
Publisher, Date:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.
Description:
xi, 778 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Motion picture producers and directors -- Biography.
Other Author:
Dickstein, Morris.
Braudy, Leo.
Contents:
Michelangelo Antonioni -- "L'Avventura" / Ian Cameron -- From A to Antonioni / Jonathan Baumbach -- No Antoniennui / Andrew Sarris -- "Blow-up" / John Freccero -- Ingmar Bergman -- Ingmar Bergman in the 1950s / James F. Scott -- "The seventh seal" / Andrew Sarris -- "Persona" / Stanley Kauffmann -- "Persona" / Susan Sontag -- Robert Bresson -- Robert Bresson / Roy Armes -- "Le journal d'un curé de campagne" and the stylistics of Robert Bresson / André Bazin -- "Un condamné à mort s'est échappé" / Gavin Lambert -- Luis Buñuel -- The discreet charm of Luis Buñuel / Carlos Fuentes -- Buñuel's Mexican films / John Russell Taylor -- "Viridiana" and "Belle de jour" / Andrew Sarris -- The fierce imagination of Luis Buñuel / Michael Wood -- Frank Capra -- A director of genius : four reviews / Graham Greene -- American madness / William S. Pechter -- Under capracorn / Stephen Handzo -- Charles Chaplin -- Chaplin : Charles and Charlie / Michael Roemer -- The new Chaplin comedy / Edmund Wilson -- "Monsieur Verdoux" / Robert Warshow -- Carl Theodor Dreyer -- Carl Dreyer's Jeanne d'Arc / Luis Buñuel -- The world beyond / Tom Milne -- "Day of wrath" / Robert Warshow -- "Vampyr" and "Gertrud" / Ken Kelman -- Sergei Eisenstein -- "Potemkin" / Stanley Kauffmann -- Eisenstein and constructivism / Standish D. Lawder -- "Ivan the Terrible, part II" / Dwight Macdonald -- Federico Fellini -- The ambiguity of satire / Gilbert Salachas -- "I vitelloni" and "La strada" / John Russell Taylor -- "Cabiria" / Andrew Sarris -- On "8 1/2" / Ted Perry -- Mirror construction in Fellini's "8 1/2" / Christian Metz -- Robert Flaherty -- Flaherty / John Grierson -- Robert Flaherty / Richard Corliss -- John Ford -- The noble outlaw / Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington -- Mirage of the sunken bathtub / Parker Tyler -- John Ford / William S. Pechter -- Jean-Luc Godard -- "Breathless" revisited / Jonathan Baumbach -- Godard / David Thomson -- Godard / Susan Sontag -- D.W. Griffith -- D.W. Griffith, or genius American style / Dwight Macdonald -- Griffith and the technical innovations / Paul Goodman -- David Wark Griffith / James Agee -- A great folly / Pauline Kael -- The films of David Wark Griffith : the development of themes and techniques in forty-tow of his films / Richard J. Meyer.
Howard Hawks -- Howard Hawks and the action film / Manny Farber -- The genius of Howard Hawks / Jacques Rivette -- The lure of irresponsibility : "Scarface" and "Bringing up baby" / Robin Wood -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Alfred Hitchcock / Lindsay Anderson -- Hitchcock / Charles Thomas Samuels -- Hitchcock and moralist narrative / David Thomson -- Inside Norman Bates / Raymond Durgnat -- Buster Keaton -- The Great blank page / Penelope Houston -- Buster Keaton's college / Luis Buñuel -- Keaton / Gerald Mast -- Akira Kurosawa -- Kurosawa's camera and style / Donald Richie -- Kurosawa and his work / Akira Iwasaki -- "Seven samurai" / Tony Richardson -- "Seven samurai" / Donald Richie -- Fritz Lang -- The style of Fritz Lang / Georges Franju -- "Metropolis" / Luis Buñuel -- "Metropolis" and "M" / Siegfried Kracauer -- "Fury" / Graham Greene -- Fate, murder and revenge / Peter Bogdanovich -- Loving Fritz Lang / François Truffaut -- Jean Renoir -- The French Renoir / André Bazin -- Renoir's anecdotal narrative / David Thomson -- Renoir and realism / Raymond Durgnat -- Renoir in Calcutta / Satyajit Ray -- Renoir's theater films of the 1950s / Leo Braudy -- Roberto Rossellini -- Rossellini : from "Open City" to "General della Rovere" / Leo Braudy -- Rossellini's materialist mise-en-scène of "La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV" / James Roy MacBean -- Josef von Sternberg -- The Sternberg style / John Baxter -- "The blue angel" and "Morocco" / Andrew Sarris -- Sternberg's "Empress" / Robin Wood -- François Truffaut -- The books of his life / Dominique Fanne -- "The 400 blows" / Arlene Croce -- "The 400 blows" / C.G. Crisp -- "Shoot the piano player" and "Jules and Jim" / Pauline Kael -- Jules and Jim / Dominique Fanne -- "The story of Adèle H." / Stanley Kauffmann -- Orson Welles -- "Citizen Kane" / Andrew Sarris -- Welles and his wonders / Otis Ferguson -- Raising Kane / Pauline Kael -- Welles after Kane / William S. Pechter.
ISBN:
0195023129
9780195023121