Walter Hill

The Cinema of a Hollywood Maverick
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8810-7
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

This is a comprehensive journey through the long career of auteur Hollywood filmmaker Walter Hill, director of The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Streets of Fire and many more. The book covers every motion picture that Hill directed, with historical detail and critical commentary on each, and discusses Hill's overall cultural relevance and industrial impact. It includes candid conversations with producer Larry Gordon; actors Nicholas Guest, William Sadler and Michael Pare; cinematographers Lloyd Ahren and Matthew Leonetti; composers Van Dyke Parks and David Mansfield; screenwriter Larry Gross, and others who worked with Hill throughout his prolific career.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byrne, Wayne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments vi
- Foreword by Allan Graf 1
- Introduction 5
- One—Walter: Writer 7
- Two—Hard Times, Harder Men 17
- Three—Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young 68
- Four—"Blow something up!" 96
- Five—Tales for Television and Way Out West 127
- Six—Same Director, Different Hollywood 176
- Seven—"It's a collaboration": A Celebration of Walter Hill 198
- Interviewees and Dates 205
- Index 207

Über Autor(innen)

Wayne Byrne is a writer, educator, and film historian from Ireland.