{"product_id":"directing-the-non-actor-volume-one-europe-north-america-and-asia-9798899760938","title":"Directing the Non-Actor, Volume One: Europe, North America, and Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1960s, filmmaker James Blue embarked on a Ford Foundation-funded odyssey across three continents. His mission was to interview over sixty directors about their methods for unlocking the exciting potential of cinematic performance as revealed by Italian neorealism: coaxing authentic human behavior from people who have never acted. Now, six decades later, editor Richard Herskowitz has fulfilled Blue's vision with this landmark collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume One of \u003cem\u003eDirecting the Non-Actor\u003c\/em\u003e brings together, along with a comprehensive account of Blue's motivations, process, and findings, extraordinary conversations with Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Satyajit Ray, and others, and revelatory testimonies from the non-actors themselves. What emerges is a master class in the craft of capturing life on screen: from Bresson's exacting control to Godard's improvisatory freedom, from Italian neorealism's streets to Québec's New Wave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssential reading for filmmakers, scholars, and anyone captivated by the mysterious space where cinema meets reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirectors interviewed: John Boorman, Robert Bresson, Shirley Clarke, Milos Forman, Jean-Luc Godard, Gilles Groulx, Susumu Hani, Claude Jutra, Paul Morrissey, Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir and Jacques Rozier. Actors interviewed: Carroll Baker, Warren Beatty, Richard Grenier, Johanne Harrelle, François Lafarge, Macha Méril, Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée, Barbara Ulrich and Anne Wiazemsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sticking Place Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798899760938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.81d","brand":"James Blue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459145719989,"sku":"9798899760938","price":30.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9798899760938.jpg?v=1791297771","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/directing-the-non-actor-volume-one-europe-north-america-and-asia-9798899760938","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}