Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute - Paperback

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Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute - Paperback

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute - Paperback

by George Jr. Stevens
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9781400033140
Author George Jr. Stevens
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreBiography, Arts, and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2007
LanguageENG- English
Pages736
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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By George Jr. Stevens

About George Jr. Stevens

George Stevens, Jr., is an award-winning writer, director, and producer, and founder of the American Film Institute. He has received eleven Emmys, two Peabody Awards, and seven Writers Guild of America Awards for his television productions, including the annual Kennedy Center Honors, The Murder of Mary Phagan, and Separate but Equal. His production The Thin Red Line was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including best picture. He worked with his father, acclaimed director George Stevens, on his productions of Shane, Giant, and The Diary of Anne Frank and in 1962 was named head of the United States Information Agency's motion picture division by Edward R. Murrow. Stevens was director of the AFI from 1967 until 1980, before returning to film and television production. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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