a ISBN 978-02-4080681-5

a ISBN 0-240-80681-6

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number PN1995.9.P7

b Item number D35 2006

a Dewey Classification 791.430233

a Personal name Dancyger, Ken.

a Title The director's idea :

b Remainder of title the path to great directing /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Ken Dancyger.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Amsterdam ;

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Boston :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Focal Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2006.

a Extent xiv, 356 p. ;

c Dimensions 23 cm.

a General note Includes index.

a Formatted contents note pt. I: What the director does. Introduction -- The director's idea -- The competent director -- The good director -- The great director -- Text interpretation -- The camera -- The actor -- pt. II: The case studies of directing. Sergei Eisenstein : the historical dialectic -- John Ford : poetry and heroism -- George Stevens : the American character : desire and conscience -- Billy Wilder : existence at stake -- Ernst Lubitsch : the life force of romance -- Elia Kazan : drama as life -- François Truffaut : celebrate the child -- Roman Polanski : the aloneness of existence -- Stanley Kubrick : the darkness of modern life -- Steven Spielberg : childhood forever -- Margarethe Von Trotta : historical life and personal life intersect -- Lukas Moodysson : empathy and its limits -- Catherine Breillat : the warfare of sexuality -- Mary Harron : celebrity and banality -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Finding the director's idea.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Motion pictures

u Uniform Resource Identifier http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006297079-d.html