ABSTRACT
Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights.
Each entry discusses a director’s practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include:
- Frank Capra
- Cecil B DeMille
- John Ford
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Fritz Lang
- Orson Welles
- DW Griffith
- King Vidor
This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
letter |49 pages
Silent Hollywood
entry |12 pages
Charlie Chaplin
entry |7 pages
Cecil B. Demille
entry |7 pages
D. W. Griffith
entry |7 pages
Oscar Micheaux
entry |8 pages
King Vidor
entry |8 pages
Lois Weber
letter |249 pages
Classical Hollywood
entry |8 pages
Robert Aldrich
entry |7 pages
Dorothy Arzner
entry |7 pages
Frank Capra
entry |9 pages
George Cukor
entry |12 pages
Michael Curtiz
entry |9 pages
John Ford
entry |6 pages
Samuel Fuller
entry |7 pages
Howard Hawks
entry |9 pages
Alfred Hitchcock
entry |8 pages
Elia Kazan
entry |8 pages
Fritz Lang
entry |8 pages
Joseph Losey
entry |7 pages
Ernst Lubitsch
entry |7 pages
Ida Lupino
entry |7 pages
Anthony Mann
entry |8 pages
Vincente Minnelli
entry |6 pages
Max Ophüls
entry |7 pages
Otto Preminger
entry |9 pages
Nicholas Ray
entry |8 pages
Don Siegel
entry |8 pages
Robert Siodmak
entry |9 pages
Douglas Sirk
entry |7 pages
Josef Von Sternberg
entry |7 pages
Preston Sturges
entry |7 pages
Frank Tashlin
entry |9 pages
Jacques Tourneur
entry |9 pages
Raoul Walsh
entry |7 pages
Orson Welles
entry |7 pages
William A. Wellman
entry |9 pages
James Whale
entry |6 pages
Billy Wilder
entry |7 pages
William Wyler
letter |90 pages
New Hollywood
entry |8 pages
Robert Altman
entry |6 pages
John Cassavetes
entry |8 pages
Roger Corman
entry |8 pages
William Friedkin
entry |9 pages
Stanley Kubrick
entry |7 pages
Sidney Lumet
entry |7 pages
Alan J. Pakula
entry |8 pages
Sam Peckinpah
entry |7 pages
Arthur Penn
entry |7 pages
Roman Polanski
entry |7 pages
Stephanie Rothman
entry |8 pages
John Waters