Marshalling his cinematic and cultural knowledge, editor Jan-Christopher Horak has compiled this group of articles on the cinematic period from 1919 to 1945. Many of the articles comprehensively treat such early film-makers as Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Huff and Douglass Crockwell.
Marshalling his cinematic and cultural knowledge, editor Jan-Christopher Horak has compiled this group of articles on the cinematic period from 1919 t...
Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award--winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920--1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest (1959), and Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch (1955) introduced the idea that opening credits could tell a story, setting the mood for the movie to follow. Bass's stylistic influence can be seen in popular Hollywood franchises from the Pink Panther to James...
Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award--winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920--1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for fi...