Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic films original release.The story of how The Godfather was...

This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages ...

Impeccably designed, and copiously illustrated with more than two hundred stills and behind-the-scenes images, this is the definitive celebration o...

How do we experience theatre through film? Laura Sava critically engages with the filmic representation of theatre, focusing on a selection of art ...

Influential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and k...

What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film ...

One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film histo...

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

For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, la...

How do we experience theatre through film? Laura Sava critically engages with the filmic representation of theatre, focusing on a selection of art ...

The Complete Saga from Mad Max to Furiosa The Legend of Mad Max is the ultimate guide to the high octane post-apocalyptic film series, directed by ...

When Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would...

Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the Lowry of filmmaking by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 19...

This book explores the development of Robert Lepages distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages...

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book analyses the work of Oliver Ston...

Val Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and abse...

From her relatively small-scale feature debut Luck By Chance (2009) to her recent premieres of Gully Boy (2019) and Made in Heaven (2019) to local ...

Born in Oklahoma into the Chickasaw Nation, Wallace Fox directed films over the span of four decades. Known primarily for Westerns and mystery film...

Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, one of the twentieth centurys most famous filmmakers, is best known for his masterpiece, The Passion of Joan ...

The films of Sofia Coppola have moved and entranced audiences with her minimalist style, moody soundscapes, and commitment to center the lives and ...

During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director...

George Stevens Jr. grew up on movie sets. His grandmother, aunts, uncles, and other family members were all entertainers, but it was his father, di...

During his career, Michael Mann has drawn a singular and innovative line within the Hollywood industry. The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Revelations...