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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

The Art of the Hollywood Epic

by Mark VieiraMartin Scorsese Brett Ratner and others
Hardback
Publication Date: 16/12/2014

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Colossal. Stupendous. Epic. These adjectives, used by movie companies to hawk their wares, became cliches long ago. When used to describe the films of one director, they are accurate. More than any filmmaker in the history of the medium, Cecil B. DeMille mastered the art of the spectacle. In the process, he became a filmland founder. One hundred years ago, he made the first feature film ever shot in Hollywood and went on to become the most commercially successful producer-director in history. DeMille told his cinematic tales with painterly, extravagant images. The parting of the Red Sea in The Ten Commandments was only one of these. There were train wrecks ( The Greatest Show on Earth ) orgies ( Manslaughter ) battles ( The Buccaneer ) Ancient Rome ( The Sign of the Cross ) Ancient Egypt ( Cleopatra ) and the Holy Land ( The Crusades ). The best of these images are showcased here, in Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic . This lavish volume opens the King Tut's tomb of cinematic treasures that is the Cecil B. DeMille Archives, presenting storyboard art, concept paintings, and an array of photographic imagery. Historian Mark A. Vieira writes an illuminating text to accompany these scenes. Cecilia de Mille Presley relates her grandfather's thoughts on his various films, and recalls her visits to his sets, including the Egyptian expedition to film The Ten Commandments.Like the director's works, Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic is a panorama of magnificence,celebrating a legendary filmmaker and the remarkable history of Hollywood.
ISBN:
9780762454907
9780762454907
Category:
Individual film directors
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
16-12-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Running Press,U.S.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
313x261x43mm
Weight:
3kg
Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese (Director/Producer/Screenwriter) is an Academy Award-winning Director and one of the most influential filmmakers working today.

He has directed critically acclaimed, award-winning films including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street, and many more. Scorsese is the founder and chair of The Film Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and protection of motion picture history. 2016 saw the release of Scorsese's passion project, Silence, based on the acclaimed novel by Shusaku Endo.

Scorsese has directed numerous documentaries including the Peabody Award winning No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia, and George Harrison: Living in the Material World, for which Scorsese received Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Nonfiction Special.

In 2019, Netflix released Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, the director's second film about Dylan, this one focusing on his legendary 1975 tour. The Irishman is Scorsese's 25th feature film.

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