Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film - from Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh to Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Lumet. The conversations brought together in this book give us a history of the movies. They are the stories of pioneers who came to the picture business from many worlds. Some were adventurers (running away to sea; joining Pancho Villa) before finding their place in the movies. Some were football stars, some electrical engineers, lawyers, auto mechanics, airplane designers. Some were trained in silent movies (Dwan, Walsh, Lang, von Sternberg, Hitchcock). Many of them were men who lived to the hilt and brought to their work the residue of their earlier experiences.
Chuck Jones Boeken
Chuck Jones was een baanbrekende animator en verhalenverteller die een tijdperk van Warner Bros. animatie definieerde. Zijn baanbrekende benadering van visuele komedie en karakterontwerp bracht onvergetelijke figuren en verhalen voort die generaties lang vermaakten. Jones' vermogen om schijnbaar eenvoudige concepten te transformeren in meesterlijke visuele verhalen is duidelijk zichtbaar in zijn blijvende klassiekers, waar een mix van absurditeit en diep menselijk inzicht een unieke artistieke gevoeligheid ontmoet.
Chuck Amuck
The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist
Academy Award winning animator Chuck Jones looks back on his life and career, and explains how he and his fellow animators created cartoon characters