The Essential Directors The Art and Impact of Cinema's Most Influential Filmmakers (Turner Classic Movies)

For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intoxicated and entranced our senses. One artist's vision is the single most prominent force behind the scenes: the director.The Essential Directors illuminates the unseen forces behind some of the most notable screen triumphs from the aesthetic peak of silent cinema through the New Hollywood of the 1970s.Considering each artist's influence on the medium, cultural impact, and degree of achievement, Turner Classic Movies presents a compendium of Hollywood'smost influential filmmakers, withprofilesofferinghistory and insight on the filmmaker's narrative style, unique touches, contributions to the medium, key films, and distinctive movie moments to watch for. The work of these game-changing artists is illustrated throughout by more than 200 full-color and black-and-white photographs.
In The Essential Directors you'll read how Cecil B.DeMillerevamped religion to define an era, and how Oscar Micheaux broke barriers to becomethe most influential Black filmmaker of the 1920s. You'll marvel at the efficient artistry of"One-Take Woody" VanDyke and fall in love again with the sophisticated studio-era classics
of George Cukor. You'll gain insight into how womenlike Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino built thriving careers in an industry ruled by menand discover what drove Mike Nicholsto mix comedy with tragedy, becoming the highest-paid director of his day in the the process. TheEssential Directors presents the work ofthese game-changing artists and dozens more in this stunningvolume.


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