The art of the American film

An overview of American film history, taking the auteurist stance that singular artists managed to flourish within a rigid studio system. Focuses mainly on key directors and performers including D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, Charlie Chaplin, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Billy Wilder, Orson Welles, Frank Capra, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Raoul Walsh, William Wyler, Bette Davis, Erich von Stroheim, Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, George Cukor, Victor Fleming.

Part of the Roy Fowler Collection