The director's idea the path to great directing

As a director, you must have a concept, a ""director's idea"", to shape your approach to the actors, the camera, and the script. With this clear idea your film will be deeper and more effective, and you will be able to differentiate--and therefore make the choice--between c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dancyger, Ken (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press c2006.
Edición:1st edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Francois 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.