Walter Hill: The Cinema of a Hollywood Maverick

by Wayne Byrne

Overview

This is a comprehensive journey through the long career of auteur Hollywood filmmaker Walter Hill, director of The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Streets of Fire and many more. The book covers every motion picture that Hill directed, with historical detail and critical commentary on each, and discusses Hill's overall cultural relevance and industrial impact. It includes candid conversations with Hill; producer Larry Gordon; actors Nicholas Guest, William Sadler and Michael Pare; cinematographers Lloyd Ahern and Matthew Leonetti; composers Van Dyke Parks and David Mansfield; screenwriter Larry Gross, and others who worked with Hill throughout his prolific career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476648873
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	10/17/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Wayne Byrne is an Irish author and film historian. He has written on film and music culture for a variety of notable publications and on subjects such as Tom DiCillo, Burt Reynolds, Nick McLean, Elm Street, and Walter Hill.
Wayne Byrne is an Irish author and film historian. He has written on film and music culture for a variety of notable publications and on subjects such as Tom DiCillo, Burt Reynolds, Nick McLean, Elm Street, and Walter Hill.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletevi
Foreword by Allan Graf
Introduction
One—Walter: Writer
Two—Hard Times, Harder Men
Three—Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young
Four—“Blow something up!”
Five—Tales for Television and Way Out West
Six—Same Director, Different Hollywood
Seven—“It’s a collaboration”: A Celebration of Walter Hill
Interviewees and Dates
Index