Bright Lights Film Journal :: Mark A. Vieira

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."
— David Hudson, IFC.com

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Mark A. Vieira

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Mark A. Vieira is a photographer, film historian, and author of Hurrell's Hollywood Portraits, Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code in Hollywood, and other books. Mark's elegant website is here. He lives in Los Angeles.

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