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Hollywood Voices; Interviews with Film Directors
by Sarris, Andrew
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
E-176: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good. 1972. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Bobbs Merrill and Company, Indianapolis, IN/New York. 1971. 180 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Hollywood is also a country of the mind. The natives Cukor, Mamoulian, Preminger, Sturges talk to the visitor about the practicalities of being a film director, how to survive, how to do what one wants to do while still pleasing ones masters, how indeed to be ones own master. Then there are the fugitives Huston, Losey, Polonsky, Ray, Welles whose statements reflect both Hollywoods failure to contain its cleverest children and the pressure for a radically individualistic alternative to Hollywood. This absorbing collection of confrontations centers on the directors responsibility and on the auteur theory. Talking to William Pechter in 1962 Polonsky describes his blacklisting and sees no possibility of making films again. Mamoulian discusses with Andrew Sarris, and Cukor with Overstreet, the details of their craft. Preminger, in conversation with Ian Cameron, Mark Shivas and Paul Mayersberg, maintains his absolute creative autonomy. Welles, in a long interview originally published in Cahiers du Cinema, talks about his career in the theatre and cinema, his relationship with Hemingway, his feelings about America, his isolation. The interviews by Penelope Houston and John Gillett with Losey and Ray raise, by contrast, specific problems of critical response and communication. There are no irrevocable conclusions in this lively and undogmatic volume. E-085 .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books
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- 60333
- Title
- Hollywood Voices; Interviews with Film Directors
- Author
- Sarris, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill
- Place of Publication
- E-176
- Date Published
- 1972
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