The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968

* Introduction Pantheon Directors * Charles Chaplin * Robert Flaherty * John Ford * D.W. Griffith * Howard Hawks * Alfred Hitchcock * Buster Keaton * Fritz Lang * Ernest Lubitsch * F.W. Murnau * Max Ophuls * Jean Renoir * Joseph von Sternberg * Orson Welles The Far Side of Paradise * Robert Aldrich * Frank Borzage * Frank Capra * George Cukor * Cecil B. De Mille * Blake Edwards * Gregory La Cava * Joseph Losey * Anthony Mann * Leo McCarey * Vincente Minelli * Otto Preminger * Nicholas Ray * Douglas Sirk * George Stevens * Erich Von Stroheim * Preston Sturges * King Vidor * Raoul Walsh Expressive Esoterica * Budd Boetticher * Andre De Toth * Stanley Donen * Clive Donner * Allan Dwan * Tay Garnett * Seth Holt * Phil Karlson * Joseph H. Lewis * Alexander Mackendrick * Robert Mulligan * Gerd Oswald * Arthur Penn * Lowell Sherman * Donald Siegel * Robert Siodmak * John M. Stahl * Frank Tashlin * Jacques Tourneur * Edgar G. Ulmer * Roland West Fringe Benefits * Michelangelo Antonioni * Luis Buuel * Claude Chabrol * Ren Clair * Ren Clment * Sergei Eisenstein * G.W. Pabst * Roman Polanski * Roberto Rossellini * Franois Truffaut * Luchino Visconti Less Than Meets the Eye * John Huston * Elia Kazan * David Lean * Rouben Mamoulian * Joseph L. Mankewicz * Lewis Milestone * Carol Reed * William Wellman * Billy Wilder * William Wyler * Fred Zinnemann Lightly Likable * Busby Berkeley * Henry Cornelius * John Cromwell * Michael Curtiz * Harry D'Arrast * Delmer Daves * Edmund Goulding * Byron Haskin * Henry Hathaway * Garson Kanin * Burt Kennedy * Alexander Korda * Zoltan Korda * Mitchell Leisen * Mervyn Le Roy * Franklin Schaffner * George Sidney * Andrew L. Stone * Charles Waters * James Whale Strained Seriousness * Richard Brooks * Jack Clayton * Jules Dessin * Richard Fleischer * Bryan Forbes * John Frankenheimer * Sidney J. Furie * Norman Jewison * Stanley Kubrick * Richard Lester * Albert Lewin * Sidney Lumet * Karel Reisz * Tony Richardson * Robert Rossen * John Schlesinger * John Sturges * Robert Wise Oddities, One-Shots, and Newcomers * Lindsay Anderson * George Axelrod * John Boorman * Marlon Brando * Peter Brook * John Cassavetes * James Clavell * Harold Clurman * Francis Ford Coppola * Roger Corman * Desmond Davis * Theodore J. Flicker * Bernard Girard * Robert Gist * Curtis Harrington * Harvey Hart * Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur * Howard Hughes * Gene Kelly * Buzz Kulik * Charles Laughton * Irving Lerner * Ida Lupino * Robert Montgomery * Mike Nichols * Christian Nyby * Robert Parrish * Sam Peckinpah * Frank Perry * Abe Polansky * Stuart Rosenberg * Elliot Silverstein * Alexander Singer * Jack Smight * Peter Tweksbury * Peter Watkins * John Wayne * Jack Webb * Paul Wendkos * Cornell Wilde * Michael Winner * Bud Yorkin Subjects for Further Research * Clarence Brown * Tod Browning * James Cruze * Paul Fejos * Sidney Franklin * William K. Howard * Rex Ingram * Henry King * Malcolm St. Clair * Victor Seastrom * Maurice Tourneur Make Way for the Clowns! * W.C. Fields * Jerry Lewis * Harold Lloyd * The Marx Brothers * Mae West Miscellany * Michael Anderson * Laslo Benedek * John Brahm * Hubert Cornfield * William Dieterle * Roy Del Ruth * Gordon Douglas * Philip Dunne * Victor Fleming * Jack Garfein * Stuart Heisler * Stanley Kramer * Joshua Logan * David Miller * Jean Negulesco * Joseph M. Newman * Elliot Nugent * Arch Oboler * Richard Quine * Leslie Stevens * Edward Sutherland * Burt Topper * W.S. Van Dyke * Don Weis * Terance Young Afterword: The Auteur Theory Revisited * Directorial Chronology: 1915-1967