📗 Libro en inglés THE MEN WHO MADE THE MOVIES

One of our most thoughtful film critics here takes on eight of Hollywood s finest directors in conversation reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of American filmmaking The directors are Alfred Hitchcock Frank Capra Vincente Minnelli George Cukor Howard Hawks William A Wellman King Vidor and Raoul Walsh Speaking with them Mr Schickel found in these men a special quality They felt in their bones the character and quality of a vanished America There was something valuable to be learned from them not merely about the cinema but about the conduct of life Each of these directors created a canon of work that even today sustains critical analysis without sacrificing popular appeal Each maintained his artistic integrity while working in an atmosphere generally credited with ruining rather than nurturing talent Their attitudes Mr Schickel writes in his introduction were composed of a toughness that was never harsh a pride in achievement that was never boastful a self reliance and an acceptance of the difficulties under which they had labored which contained neither self pity nor a desire to blame others for the things that had gone wrong Rich in behind the scenes stories about such modern classics as It Happ