The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929-1968
by Andrew Sarris
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A guide to the work of 200 film directors and over 6000 films by "the leading American proponent [of the auteur theory]." Includes the essays "Toward a Theory of Film History" and "The Auteur Theory Revisited."--Back cover.Tags
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Andrew Sarris reviews movies for The New York Observer and was for twenty-nine years a film critic for The Village Voice. teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York.
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- 1968
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Reference
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- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
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- PN1998.2 .S266 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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