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Main Author: Kehr, Dave
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The best: Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir)
  • Family plot (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • F for fake (Orson Welles)
  • Days of heaven (Terrence Malick)
  • 10 (Blake Edwards)
  • Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
  • The aviator's wife (Eric Rohmer)
  • Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira)
  • The end of classical hollywood: Classical hollywood
  • The man who would be king (John Huston)
  • Fedora (Billy Wilder)
  • Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel)
  • The human factor (Otto Preminger)
  • New hollywood
  • The driver (Walter Hill)
  • Halloween (John Carpenter)
  • Reds (Warren Beatty)
  • Sudden impact (Clint Eastwood)
  • New directions in comedy: Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards)
  • Risky business (Paul Brickman)
  • Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
  • After hours (Martin Scorsese)
  • Mavericks and outsiders
  • Dawn of the dead (George Romero)
  • The big red one (Samuel Fuller)
  • Love streams (John Cassavetes)
  • Trouble in mind (Alan Rudolph)
  • Other visions
  • Old masters
  • Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini)
  • A piece of pleasure (Claude Chabrol)
  • That obscure object of desire (Luis Bunuel)
  • Perceval (Eric Rohmer)
  • Godard
  • Numero deux
  • Every man for himself
  • Passion
  • Detective
  • New masters
  • Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
  • The memory of justice (Marcel Ophuls)
  • Allegro non troppo (Bruno Bozzetto)
  • The American friend (Wim Wenders)
  • Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
  • Eijanaika (Shohei Imamura)
  • Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier)
  • City of pirates (Raul Ruiz)
  • Revivals and retrospectives: The story of the last chyrsanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  • The flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
  • Born in Germany, raised in Hollywood: the film art of Fritz Lang
  • Record of a tenement gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu)
  • Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
  • Othello (Orson Welles)
  • Crisis, compulsion, and creation: Raoul Walsh's cinema of the individual
  • A love that caresses the soul: films by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • When a woman ascends the stairs (Mikio Naruse)
  • Le silence de la mer and bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  • The leopard (Luchino Visconti)
  • Hitch's riddle: on five re-released films
  • Once upon a time in the west (Sergio Leone)
  • French cancan (Jean Renoir).