Books on Cinema

Andrew Sarris (1928-2012) was an American film critic. He was the one who coined the term " auteur  theory" (a not completely correct translation from the french  politique des auteurs ), brought from  Cahiers du Cinéma  to the American appreciation, mainly in his influent article  Notes on the Autheur Theory . This "policy" is known for focusing criticism mainly in those directors ("authors") whose personal styles and visions of the world are consistent along their bodies of work. He wrote for  Film Culture ,  The Village Voice  and  The New York Observer . The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 is his most famous book, the American film history organized in the form of a guide to the work of two hundred film directors. Even though some of his opinions have become somewhat debatable (regarding Rouben Mamoulian, William Wyler, Stanley Kubrick, among others in the second half of the book), Sarris’s eloquence reveals a pa...

Andrew Sarris (1928-2012) was an American film critic. He was the one who coined the term " auteur theory" (a not completely correct translation from the french politique des auteurs ), brought from Cahiers du Cinéma  to the American appreciation, mainly in his influent article Notes on the Autheur Theory . This "policy" is known for focusing criticism mainly in those directors ("authors") whose personal styles and visions of the world are consistent along their bodies of work. He wrote for  Film Culture , The Village Voice  and The New York Observer and his most famous book is  The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929-1968 , a guide to some of the most important American film directors. Interviews with Film Directors  is a compilation of interviews organized by Sarris from several publications, where 40 classic film directors (Ford, Godard, Hawks, Lang, Renoir, Hitchcock, among others) discuss their work. Sarris introduces each film direc...