Letters from Hollywood

1977-2017

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.Journalist 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-01-02
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Antal sidor324
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438477640

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. How I Became the Los Angeles Correspondent for Cahiers du cinema2. On Daney (1977)3. Serge Daney (1944–1992)Directors Who Started in Silents4. Allan Dwan: The Cliff and the Flume5. Raoul Walsh: Objective, Burma!6. Haunted Hollywood: 19797. John Ford: December 7: The Movie8. Hawks at Work: The Making of Land of the Pharaohs9. Alfred Hitchcock: Shelling the Lifeboat10. Alfred Hitchcock: Dark CarnivalDirectors Who Started in Talkies11. "All This Is So": Orson Welles's Shakespeare Films12. Ulmer without Tears13. Phil Karlson Confidential14. Nicholas Ray: We Can't Go Home Again15. Robert Aldrich: Sodom and Gomorrah16. Blake Edwards: Skin Deep17. Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in AmericaDirectors Who Started in Television18. Lucille Ball: I Love Lucy19. Le Cas Wood20. Robert Altman: Prêt-à-Porter21. Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket22. John Frankenheimer: Jonah23. Monte Hellman: Iguana24. Monte Hellman TodayDirectors Who Counterattacked25. Woody Allen: Zelig26. William Friedkin: Cruising27. Francis Ford Coppola: Peggy Sue Got Married28. Richard Brooks: In Cold Blood29. Star Wars: Reversing the Signs30. Dante's Inferno31. John Landis: The Stupids32. Ang Lee: The Ice Storm33. Tim Burton: Ed Wood34. David O. Russell: Flirting with DisasterIndex

"For more than four decades, Bill Krohn was the Los Angeles correspondent for Cahiers du cinéma, a prestigious role—and one he was more than equipped for. Letters from Hollywood collects 30-plus essays from throughout Krohn's career. The writing is razor-sharp, and demonstrates that the author is adept at engaging with complex, thorny topics." — The Film Stage"Living 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 Scène 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