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

Dancyger, Ken, 1945-

The director's idea : the path to great directing / Ken Dancyger. - Oxford : Focal, 2006. - xiv, 356 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

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 -- Franðcois 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.

This unique book will help directors improve their work

0240806816 (pbk.) 9780240806815 (pbk.)


Motion pictures--Production and direction.
Cine--Producción y dirección
Peliculas --Producción y dirección.

PN 1995.9 / D175d 2006

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