Description: Directing examines a diverse range of classic and contemporary directors, including Orson Welles, Tim Burton, Cecil B. DeMille, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, and Ida Lupino, and demonstrates how a century's worth of Hollywood directors have negotiated changing film industry practices while harnessing the creative contributions of many collaborators.
Review Quotes: "A rare and useful contribution to the history of Hollywood film directors - their varied working conditions, their talented collaborators, and their sometimes limited but more often significant contributions to film art."--James Naremore "author of Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge"