The american cinema: directors and directions 1929-1968 - andrew sarris

Andrew Sarris is film critic for the New York Observer and professor of cinema at Columbia University.

He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle.

Sarris has been the film critic for the Village Voice, editor-in-chief of Cahiers du Cinema in English, and an associate editor of Film Culture.

He is the author of The Films of Josef von Sternberg, Interviews with Film Directors, The Film, Confessions of a Cultist, The Primal Screen, The John Ford Movie Mystery, and Politics and Cinema.