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From: John Harkness <jhXaYrkne...@sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: how come we still talk primarily about directors?
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:27:25 GMT, dober...@DROPsocal.rr.com wrote:

>Chris Collins <raisinja...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>The Cahiers crew succeeded in imprinting it on the popular imagination. 
>
>I think the privileging of directors predates Cahiers. When I watch a
>movie from the 1940s, the director's name is typically the final
>credit, which has pertinent implications in any discussion of the
>public's view of a director's importance.

Plus certain directors were commodities long before Cahiers -- Capra,
Hitchock, John Ford, William Wyler, Huston


John Harkness