James Wong Howe The Camera Eye: A Career Interview
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About the Author Alain Silver is the author of The Samurai Film. Among his other books are The Noir Style, The Vampire Film, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles , More Things than are Dreamt Of, L.A. Noir, and director studies of David Lean, Robert Aldrich and Roger Corman. He is co-editor of Film Noir: The Encyclopedia, four Film Noir Readers, Horror Film Reader, and Gangster Film Reader. His produced screenplays include Kiss Daddy Goodbye, the Showtime feature Time at the Top, and an adaptation of Dostoevsky's White Nights, which he also directed. Selected feature credits as a producer include Crashing, Beat, Cyborg2, 10th & Wolf, Night Visitor, and Palmer's Pick-up. He has done audio or video commentaries for over two dozen titles from Warner Bros., 20th-Century Fox and Criterion including David Lean's Hobson's Choice and numerous classic period film noir such as Murder, My Sweet, Out of the Past, Thieves' Highway, Call Northside 777, Panic in the Streets, The Dark Corner, Laura, Double Indemnity, Kiss of Death, The Street with No Name, Crossfire, Lady in the Lake, Nightmare Alley, Brute Force, Tension, Mystery Street and Where Danger Lives. His essays accompany the Criterion releases of Samurai Spy and The Seven Samurai. Read more
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James Wong Howe ASC is a name that most people who loved movies from the 1930's through the 1970's knew. He was a master cinematographer who not only overcame an industry that was difficult but overcame a world who feared and hated orientals. How he overcame those fears and became one of the leaders of the visual arts is a great story and one that is well told here.
