{"product_id":"the-american-cinema-directors-and-directions-1929-1968-paperback","title":"The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Sarris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Cinema \u003c\/i\u003eis the \u003ci\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/i\u003e of film criticism, a brilliant book that elevated American directors from craftsmen to artists, launched the careers of numerous film critics, and shaped the aesthetics of a whole generation of viewers by providing new ways of looking at movies.--Emanuel Levy, author of \u003ci\u003eGeorge Cukor, Master of Elegance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe auteur theory, of which film critic Andrew Sarris was the leading American proponent, holds that artistry in cinema can be largely attributed to film directors, who, while often working against the strictures of studios, producers, and scriptwriters, manage to infuse each film in their oeuvre with their personal style. Sarris's \u003ci\u003eThe American Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, the bible of auteur studies, is a history of American film in the form of a lively guide to the work of two hundred film directors, from Griffith, Chaplin, and von Sternberg to Mike Nichols, Stanley Kubrick, and Jerry Lewis. In addition, the book includes a chronology of the most important American films, an alphabetical list of over 6000 films with their directors and years of release, and the seminal essays Toward a Theory of Film History and The Auteur Theory Revisited. Over twenty-five years after its initial publication, \u003ci\u003eThe American Cinema \u003c\/i\u003eremains perhaps the most influential book ever written on the subject.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Sarris \u003c\/b\u003eis film critic for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e and professor of cinema at Columbia University. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle. Mr. Sarris has been the film critic for the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice, \u003c\/i\u003e editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eCahiers du Cinema in English, \u003c\/i\u003e and an associate editor of \u003ci\u003eFilm Culture.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Films of Josef von Sternberg, Interviews with Film Directors, The Film, Confessions of a Cultist, The Primal Screen, The John Ford Movie Mystery, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePolitics and Cinema.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.01 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44441749094502,"sku":"9780306807282","price":27.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/T3YxbjRJMHB6SkxvbzNLOHovT3VRUT09.webp?v=1770583851","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-american-cinema-directors-and-directions-1929-1968-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}