Author: Lisa Dombrowski

<P>A groundbreaking filmmaker dogged by controversy in both his personal life and career, Elia Kazan was one of the most important directors of postwar American cinema. In landmark motion pictu …

A cigar-chomping storyteller who signaled ‘Action!’ by shooting a gun, Samuel Fuller has been lionized as one of the most distinctive writer/directors ever to emerge from Hollywood. In such films as …

Illuminating the industrial, cultural, and aesthetic significance of the later years of one of American cinema’s most influential auteurs, this anthology combines scholarly essays, original interview …

Illuminating the industrial, cultural, and aesthetic significance of the later years of one of American cinema’s most influential auteurs, this anthology combines scholarly essays, original interview …

How does a film come to look the way it does? And what influence does the look of a film have on our reaction to it? The role of cinematography, as both a science and an art, is often forgotten in th …