Directors A-Z: A Concise Guide to the Art of the Great Film-makers - Softcover

Andrew, Geoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853753351 ISBN 13: 9781853753350

Publisher: Prion Books Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Covering classical Hollywood cinema, contemporary film-making and the classics of world cinema, this book is a visual guide to 250 of the all time greatest directors. Giving a page to each director, the book takes a still from a film that typifies each director's cinematic style. The words that accompany each still, describes the mise-en-scene and use this to describe the visual and thematic obsessions of each director's work - how they use focus, camera angle and motion, lighting, sound and sets and action to create the filmic reality that we the viewers are pulled into.

About this title

About the Author

Geoff Andrew is Senior Film Editor of Time Out London magazine, and Programmer of the National Film Theatre in London. He is the editor of Film: The Critics' Choice, and the author of numerous books on cinema, including The Film Handbook; Stranger than Paradise (a study of American indie film-making of the 80s and 90s, published by Prion); The Three Colours Trilogy (for the BFI Modern Classics series); and The Films of Nicholas Ray. He is currently working on a book about Abbas Kiarostami's Ten for the BFI Modern Classics series. He lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prion Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1853753351
• ISBN 13: 9781853753350
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 252