Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Wes Anderson is the most influential comedic voice from the past two decades of American cinema. A true auteur, his intimate involvement in each of...

Japan's most popular filmmaker speaks on life, love, and the world of anime.The Starting Point...of the Greatest Career in Animation HistoryIn the ...

The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuri...

The first biography of the acclaimed and derided filmmaker Michael Cimino—and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his career—now in ...

This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, successful and intriguing auteurs, Chr...

Guillermo del Toro is a complete and intimate study of the life and work of one of modern cinema's most truly unique directors, whose distinct aest...

Discover everything you've ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.Painstakingly...

This companion to the bestselling The Wes Anderson Collection is the only book to take readers behind the scenes of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Throu...

Nicolas Roeg is one of the most distinctive and influential film-makers of his generation. The generation of film-makers who define contemporary...

Just as BDL's bestselling All the Songs series-which has over 400,000 copies in print-presents a comprehensive, song-by-song view of major bands an...

The definitive reference for all Wes Anderson fans.  Loaded with rich imagery and detailed analysis of his incredible films including the classics...

With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fift...

No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholar...

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Contemporary Cinema, Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include Crossing Ne...

Agnes Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, fil...

One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as hi...

Among early Hollywood's most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era's three great minds alongside D W Griffith and Cecil B D...

Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as...

Lino Brocka (19391991) was one of Asia and the Global Souths most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of ...

This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spains most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw ...

Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968), Aguirre, the W...

A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Eye-opening and addictively readable. Total Film Who and what decides if a film gets funded? How do those wh...

Gilles Deleuze represents the most widely referenced theorist of cinema today. And yet, even the most rudimentary pillars of his thought remain mys...

Michael Allen's insightful study explores the long and diverse career of the actor and director Robert Redford, from his early work in theatre and ...

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Catherine OBrien draws on the struct...

Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and ...

The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jef...

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, vis...

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, vis...

Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become o...

Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone wat...

As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the time, Disney hired a group of “...

The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films are cult favorites and box offic...

The city, with its manifold distractions and violence, its invitation to intoxication and dream, had long served to represent the experience of mod...

A rare, intimate portrait of Hollywood's reigning 'blockbuster auteur' whose deeply personal billion-dollar movies have established him as the most...

This book is neither biography nor a conventional film critique. Rather, the text explores aspects of Hitchcocks work in relation to theories drawn...

A captivating exploration of the life, work, and insider insight of legendary film producer Howard Kazanjian Howard Kazanjian, a film producer whos...

«This erudite and informative book on French film directors is a comprehensive deep dive into the multi-faceted and interconnected landscape of Fra...

The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films—including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment—Bi...

Slow Places in Béla Tarr’s Films explores Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr’s approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema tech...

I do not follow ideas, I stumble into stories or into people; and I know that this is so big, I have to make a film. Very often, films come like un...