Film Directors a-Z [Paperback]

Geoff Andrew (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2005

Directors A-Z is a visual guide to 260 of the all time greatest directors, covering the masters of classical Hollywood cinema, contemporary film-making and world cinema. Each director is given just a page and a single film still that typifies their work. The accompanying text explores how each director exploits the cinematic arts - composition, colour, camera angle and movement, lighting, sound, sets and action - to convey the recurring themes and artistic vision that run through their work. This deceptively simple premise builds into one of the most fascinating, visually arresting and insightful film books there has ever been. Never have the words written about cinema and its images been so closely tied together. The result is an entertaining and genuinely enlightening work of reference.

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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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Carlton Publishing; 2nd edition (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1844425274
• ISBN-13: 978-1844425273
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,812,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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