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 Hill; producer Larry Gordon; actors Nicholas Guest, William Sadler and Michael Pare; cinematographers Lloyd Ahern and Matthew Leonetti; composers Van Dyke Parks and David Mansfield; screenwriter Larry Gross, and others who worked with Hill throughout his prolific career.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
56 photos, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-8810-7 (9781476688107)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Wayne Byrne is a writer living in Ireland.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments deletevi
Foreword by Allan Graf
Introduction
One-Walter: Writer
Two-Hard Times, Harder Men
Three-Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young
Four-"Blow something up!"
Five-Tales for Television and Way Out West
Six-Same Director, Different Hollywood
Seven-"It's a collaboration": A Celebration of Walter Hill
Interviewees and Dates
Index
