Free Download Gerald Peary, "Mavericks: Interviews with the World’s Iconoclast Filmmakers "
English | ISBN: 0813197945 | 2024 | 204 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
In the New Hollywood Era of the 1960s and 1970s, as weakening studio control granted directors more artistic freedom, the auteur theory, which regards the director as the primary artist among all those who contribute to filmmaking, gained traction. It was embraced by both the media and by directors themselves, who were glad to see their contribution so glorified. One positive was the discovery of filmmakers whose work was under the radar but virtually all the feted directors were white and overwhelmingly heterosexual―only in recent decades have the contributions of marginalized auteur filmmakers been recognized.
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