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OverviewJournalist and filmmaker Bill Krohn has been the Los Angeles correspondent for the French magazine Cahiers du cinéma for over forty years. Letters from Hollywood brings together thirty-four of his essays, many of them appearing in English for the first time. Focusing most pieces on a particular director and film, Krohn uses his inside knowledge of the studio system to illuminate an art that is also a multibillion-dollar business. He connects currents in French film criticism and theory with an unfolding account of American cinema past and present, offering penetrating insights into directors and their work. Beginning with Allan Dwan, who learned how to make movies before Hollywood was born by watching D. W. Griffith, Krohn presents a panorama that encompasses Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and Sergio Leone, Star Wars and I Love Lucy. He covers everything from gangsters to gremlins, from blockbusters to no-budget cult films like Moon Over Harlem and Plan 9 from Outer Space, in a style that is accessible to anyone who loves movies, or has a passion for writing about them. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bill KrohnPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438477640ISBN 10: 1438477643 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 02 January 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction 1. How I Became the Los Angeles Correspondent for Cahiers du cinema 2. On Daney (1977) 3. Serge Daney (1944–1992) Directors Who Started in Silents 4. Allan Dwan: The Cliff and the Flume 5. Raoul Walsh: Objective, Burma! 6. Haunted Hollywood: 1979 7. John Ford: December 7: The Movie 8. Hawks at Work: The Making of Land of the Pharaohs 9. Alfred Hitchcock: Shelling the Lifeboat 10. Alfred Hitchcock: Dark Carnival Directors Who Started in Talkies 11. ""All This Is So"": Orson Welles's Shakespeare Films 12. Ulmer without Tears 13. Phil Karlson Confidential 14. Nicholas Ray: We Can't Go Home Again 15. Robert Aldrich: Sodom and Gomorrah 16. Blake Edwards: Skin Deep 17. Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in America Directors Who Started in Television 18. Lucille Ball: I Love Lucy 19. Le Cas Wood 20. Robert Altman: Prêt-à-Porter 21. Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket 22. John Frankenheimer: Jonah 23. Monte Hellman: Iguana 24. Monte Hellman Today Directors Who Counterattacked 25. Woody Allen: Zelig 26. William Friedkin: Cruising 27. Francis Ford Coppola: Peggy Sue Got Married 28. Richard Brooks: In Cold Blood 29. Star Wars: Reversing the Signs 30. Dante's Inferno 31. John Landis: The Stupids 32. Ang Lee: The Ice Storm 33. Tim Burton: Ed Wood 34. David O. Russell: Flirting with Disaster Index"ReviewsLiving and working as a freelance writer outside of university teaching, Krohn has forged his own path and his own framework of understanding cinema. The book offers one of the very best examples I have ever encountered of a fertile space intermixing popular-journalistic and intellectual-critical modes of writing about and analyzing cinema. - Adrian Martin, author of Mise en Scene and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art Letters from Hollywood is a thrilling, gripping, and lucid account of a passion for cinema and of what analysis and appreciation can do with it. - Tom Conley, author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema Author InformationBill Krohn is the Los Angeles correspondent for Cahiers du cinéma. He is the author of Hitchcock at Work, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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