Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections...

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of Fran...

Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to, rather than detract from, the value of life, Cine...

Over her six-film career, including works like Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff and Certain Women, the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has established ...

Pablo Larran is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and establi...

Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture Examines role of images and film in (mis)understa...

As the Western matured, womens roles became more complex and modern transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionis...

In the first extended study into the politics of whiteness inherent within postfeminist cinema, Kendra Marston interrogates representations of mela...

Ever since his first feature film I Killed My Mother premiered at Cannes, every film from the 29-year-old director Xavier Dolan has generated signi...

The prevalence of loss and mourning, and of charged relationships with parents or parental figures has had a surprising influence on several Americ...

Orson Welles was once asked which directors he most admired. He replied: The old masters. By which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. A le...

Orson Welles was once asked which directors he most admired. He replied: The old masters. By which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. A le...

Tracing the entire career of the British director Terence Fisher, best known for his Gothic horror films for Hammersuch as The Curse of Frankenstei...

Tracing the entire career of the British director Terence Fisher, best known for his Gothic horror films for Hammersuch as The Curse of Frankenstei...

A spectacular and comprehensive authorized retrospective of Oscar-winning visual effects master Phil Tippett, founder and namesake of iconic Tippet...

One of the few women pioneers of cinema and a committed feminist, Germaine Dulac strongly believed that the public had a role to play in shaping th...

One of the few women pioneers of cinema and a committed feminist, Germaine Dulac strongly believed that the public had a role to play in shaping th...

One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked dur...

The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chi...

Both a history and a critique of South Africa's film industry, this book recounts the long experience of filmmaker and producer Richard Green.Green...

Main melody films are propaganda works that pay tribute to the Chinese nation, the party and the army. Since the turn of the century, they have gra...

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creato...

Andy Warhol remains one of the world's most influential artists, and his reputation has only grown since his death in 1987. He first picked up a fi...

A queer auteur who plays with generic conventions, Francois Ozon is one of France's most prolific and best known international directors, who has b...

This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy...

Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is the first major critical study of international naturalist cinema. Often mistaken for rea...

With her rigorous, authentic, and insightful biography of Nora Ephron, Kristin Doidge has gotten us all an invitation to sit around that tableto sp...

For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intox...

Before Herzog and Kinski, before Simon and Garfunkel, there was Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Despite their shared nickname, writer-producer C...

A chronological overview of one of modern cinemas most celebrated directors, featuring interviews with Jane Campion herself Jane Campion on Jane Ca...

Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary offers a theoretical mapping of contemporary non-standard documen...

István Szabó is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have earned a major international reputation over the past half century. This thoughtful and...

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a prestige force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult ...

Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter tur...

Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter tur...

Since the 1960s, documentary films have moved closer to the mainstream, thanks to the popularity of rockumentaries, association with the independen...

Since the 1960s, documentary films have moved closer to the mainstream, thanks to the popularity of rockumentaries, association with the independen...

The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines the enfant terrible writers thoughts on cinema, but also features interviews with...

Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda outlines a sustai...

Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across the Sinophone world including...

Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demys enchanted world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Chris...