ebooks Matilda: The Musical (PVG) by Wise Publications in Arts-Photography

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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 Great Passion; the first full-length English language biography of Dreyer; Jean and Dale D. Drum restore his reputation to its rightful place. Based on extensive and exclusive interviews with both Dreyer and the people who worked with himmdash;including personal correspondence dating back to 1952mdash;this biography provides the most comprehensive critical examination to date of both Dreyers life and his approach to filmmaking. A valuable resource for film critics and historians; those in the film industry; and university cinema departments; as well as anyone with an interest in Danish art and culture; My Only Great Passion provides long neglected insights into the man who first raised European film above the level of entertainment and placed it in the realm of art.