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  • - The Films of a Hollywood Giant
    by Neil Sinyard
    £47.99

    Winner of two Best Director Oscars, George Stevens excelled in a range of genres, gave lustre to some of Hollywood's brightest stars and was revered by his peers. Yet his work has been largely neglected by critics and scholars. This career retrospective highlights Stevens' achievements, particularly in his sweeping "American Dream" trilogy.

  • - The Art of Screen Adaptation
    by Neil Sinyard
    £43.49 - 139.99

  • by Neil Sinyard
    £18.99

    A personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director; Jack Clayton. -- .

  • - A Literary Life
    by Neil Sinyard
    £47.99

    A new title in Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Lives series, this is a biographical narrative of Graham Greene's literary career.

  • - The Films of William Wyler
    by Neil Sinyard
    £46.99

    Revered by his cinematic peers, William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, with such classics as Dead End, Wuthering Heights, The Little Foxes, Roman Holiday and Ben-Hur. He won three directing Oscars and elicited over a dozen Oscar-winning performances from his actors. Such exacting performers as Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier and Charlton Heston counted him the best director they had worked with. Yet during the era of the "auteur" theory his films fell out of fashion, lacking, it was said, a distinctive stylistic and thematic signature. This new critical study of Wyler's work, the first in more than thirty years, challenges the notion of Wyler's impersonality and offers a comprehensive reappraisal of his work, particularly of the underrated postwar films. It also provides a rebuttal of the auteurist criticism whose rigid categorization of directors cannot adequately encompass the range of someone like Wyler, who put substance above style and had a breadth of human understanding that was not reducible to a cluster of characteristic themes. Supported by archival research in Los Angeles, the book traces the important milestones in Wyler's career, the context of his films, the importance of legendary producer Sam Goldwyn, his distinguished war record and his principled opposition to blacklisting during the McCarthy era.

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