TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dancyger,Ken
TI  - The director's idea: the path to great directing 
SN  - 0240806816 (pbk.)
AV  - PN 1995.9  D175d 2006
U1  - 791.430233 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Focal
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - Cine
KW  - Producción y dirección
KW  - Peliculas
N1  - 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
N2  - This unique book will help directors improve their work
ER  -