Download or read book The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia written by Andrew Sarris and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the spectrum of significant filmmakers from Altman to Armstrong, Kazan to Kurosawa, Truffaut to Tarantino. With entries written by distinguished critics such as Dudley Andrew, Jeanine Basinger, David Bordwell, Raymond Durgnat, Roger Manvell, Gerald Mast, and Robin Wood, it will be a standard reference tool for many years to come. In line with Sarris's auteur theory of directing, the contributors consider the ways in which directors put their personal stamp on their work.