Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers by George Stevens Jr

Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers by George Stevens Jr

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME * A rich companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.'s much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the pioneering moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age, this time with a focus on filmmakers of the 1950s to present day.
 
The Next Generation brings together conversations with moviemakers at work from the 1950s--during the studios' decline--to today's Hollywood. Directors, producers, writers, actors, cinematographers, composers, film editors, and independent filmmakers appear within these pages, including Steven Spielberg, Nora Ephron, George Lucas, Sidney Poitier, Meryl Streep, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, and more. We see how the filmmakers of today and those of Hollywood's Golden Age face the same challenges of both art and craft--to tell compelling stories on the screen. And we see the ways in which actors and directors work together, how each director has his or her own approach, and how they share techniques and theories.

George Stevens, Jr. is an American film director, producer, and founder. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Broadway play Thurgood, which was filmed for HBO. The Motion Picture Oscar presented him with an Honorary Academy Award in 2013. For his projects, including the annual Kennedy Center Honors, Separate but Equal, The Murder of Mary Phagan, and We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, he has garnered fifteen Emmys, two Peabody Awards, the Humanitas Prize, and eight Writers Guild Awards. His film The Thin Red Line received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

He was named co-chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama in 2009. Stevens began his career working on Shane, Giant, and The Diary of Anne Frank with his father, George Stevens, and was designated chief of the United States Information Agency's motion picture branch by Edward R. Murrow in 1962.

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ISBN 13	9780307474988
ISBN 10	0307474984
Title	Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers
Author	George Stevens Jr
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2014-01-28
Number of pages	768
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