The Image Maker - Softcover

 
9780804219716: The Image Maker

Synopsis

Interviews with Jancso, Polonsky, Jires, Renoir, Bergman, and Fonda. How Film and Filmmakers Shape our Values and Sensibilities. At the beginning of the 1970s the film director had become a new superstar celebrated for elevating movies from an industry to an art form. The first part of this book features interviews with Miklos Jancso, Abraham Polonsky, Jaromil Jires, Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, and Peter Fonda. The second part contains essays about how film and filmmakers shape our values and sensibilities as a society. The essays include: "Jean-Luc Godard and the Sensibility of the Sixties", "The Existential Art of the New Film", and "The Underground Film". Illustrated with b/w photos.

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