Film Talk: Directors at Work

by Wheeler Winston Dixon

Book Overview

What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino? How have contemporary Japanese horror films inspired Takashi Shimizu, director of the huge box office hit The Grudge? What is it like to be an African American director in the twenty-first century? The answers to these questions, along with many more little-known facts and insights, can be found in Film Talk, an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at filmmaking from the 1940s to the present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081354078X
• ISBN13: 9780813540788
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"