Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

'A commanding portrait.' Total Film'Indispensable . . . rich, engaging, thorough.' Sight & Sound'Bergman's films stand alone as beacons in film...

This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period. The collectio...

He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits...

William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. Best known for his experimental film about i...

Director Michael Curtiz was the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films of classical HollywoodCasablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Hawk...

Adapted by James Ivory from André Acimans novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among...

A master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity to reveal the countrys inte...

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was British-born Alfred Hitchcocks sixth American film and the one that he at various times identified as his favourite an...

Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolinis pro...

Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it...

Since the late 1980s, Hal Hartley has challenged standards of realist narrative cinema with daring narrative constructions, character development, ...

A detailed, theoretically attuned analysis of all of the Scorsese-directed features from The Last Waltz  to Bringing Out the Dead . Grist illuminat...

Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for fi...

Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films...

The first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. The articles ...

The first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. The articles ...

A colossal cinematic achievement Richard Brody, the New Yorker A masterpiece of identity horror and a dark reflection on Americas past and present...