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My Only Great Passion - The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer (Hardcover)
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My Only Great Passion - The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer (Hardcover)
Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
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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 him-including
personal correspondence dating back to 1952-this biography provides
the most comprehensive critical examination to date of both
Dreyer's 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.
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