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My Only Great Passion
Drum, Jean; Drum, Dale D.
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Description for My Only Great Passion
The first full-length English language biography of Carl Th. Dreyer, the Danish film director best known for his 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DND; 3JJ; APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 690.
In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person. Best known for his 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc, dominated by its emotionally harrowing close-ups of Joan during her trial, it was Dreyer who pioneered some of the seminal techniques of modern film, techniques that would later be made famous by better known contemporaries such as Sergei Eisenstein and D.W. Griffith. Now, in My Only ... Read more
In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provided a way to understand human nature by focusing on the individual person. Best known for his 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc, dominated by its emotionally harrowing close-ups of Joan during her trial, it was Dreyer who pioneered some of the seminal techniques of modern film, techniques that would later be made famous by better known contemporaries such as Sergei Eisenstein and D.W. Griffith. Now, in My Only ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
Number of Pages
368
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810836792
SKU
V9780810836792
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99-15
About Drum, Jean; Drum, Dale D.
Jean Drum is currently an adjunct professor at Golden West College after a long career teaching in the Garden Grove Unified School District. Dale D. Drum, who died in 1991, spent his career as a professor of Speech-Communication at California State University, Long Beach.
Reviews for My Only Great Passion
The book is very thoroughly researched...straight-forward, pleasant-to-read prose...should be regarded as a model for future career studies. Very highly recommended.
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