American Film Institute, 1974

American Film Institute, 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on Arts and Humanities
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1975
Genre:
ISBN:

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
Author: George Stevens, Jr.
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2009-05-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0307518124

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.

The Mighty Gents

The Mighty Gents
Author: Richard Wesley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1979
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822207566

THE STORY: Ten years before the time of the play The Mighty Gents had been a power in the streets of the Newark black ghetto--proud, feared and sure of the promise of the future. But now, at thirty, the glory years are gone, and the few Gents who st

The American Film Institute and the Cultural Politics of Experimental and Independent Cinema

The American Film Institute and the Cultural Politics of Experimental and Independent Cinema
Author: Gracia Ramirez
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2024-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1666928089

This book examines the role that the American Film Institute (AFI) had in supporting experimental and independent cinema at a key moment of change in the history of American film. Weaving a rich historical narrative, Ramirez argues that the Cold War struggle for cultural supremacy motivated the creation of the federally-funded AFI. Exploring the intersection of business interests and political objectives, Ramirez demonstrates how the AFI’s approach to experimental and independent cinema was marked by an interest in promoting innovative aesthetics and protecting the creative freedom of filmmakers but lacked the attention to distribution and exhibition that would strengthen the viability of experimental and independent filmmaking as professional practices. Scholars of film, history, and American studies will find this work particularly useful.

The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States

The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film Institute
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 1198
Release: 1993
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780520079083

"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry

The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry
Author: Anthony Slide
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1135925542

The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry is a completely revised and updated edition of Anthony Slide's The American Film Industry, originally published in 1986 and recipient of the American Library Association's Outstanding Reference Book award for that year. More than 200 new entries have been added, and all original entries have been updated; each entry is followed by a short bibliography. As its predecessor, the new dictionary is unique in that it is not a who's who of the industry, but rather a what's what: a dictionary of producing and releasing companies, technical innovations, industry terms, studios, genres, color systems, institutions and organizations, etc. More than 800 entries include everything from Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to Zoom Lens, from Astoria Studios to Zoetrope. Outstanding Reference Source - American Library Association