From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal
Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
"I dare anyone to squeeze between two covers a more varied, useful and flat out entertaining sampling of the personalities that make the seventh art the liveliest."
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Maria van Dijk
London, England
Maria van Dijk is a film journalist who lectured for five years at the University of North London, where she completed a doctorate in film studies in 2000. Her thesis made a case for the film de patrimoine, a very nationally specific costume drama that first emerged with Jean de Florette in the mid-1980s. She lives in London.
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