Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute
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Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute by George Stevens Jr
ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME * The first book to bring together interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute's renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers, offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners.Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang ("I learned only from bad films"), William Wyler, and George Stevens; renowned producers and cinematographers; celebrated screenwriters Ray Bradbury and Ernest Lehman; as well as the immortal Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini ("Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It's absolutely impossible to improvise"). Taken together, these conversations offer uniquely intimate access to the thinking, the wisdom, and the genius of cinema's most talented pioneers.
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 | 9781400033140 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400033144 |
| Title | Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute |
| Author | George Stevens Jr |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2007-02-13 |
| Number of pages | 736 |
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