Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

How do we determine authorship in film, and what happens when we look in-depth at the creative activity of living filmmakers rather than approach t...

One of the twentieth centurys most important filmmakersindeed one of its most important and influential artistsIngmar Bergman and his films have be...

An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.Kathleen Collins (194288) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginnin...

In Sesame Street: A Transnational History, author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show became a global bran...

Focusing on onscreen objects in Alfred Hitchcock's films, this study examines the staircases, eyeglasses, lamps, doors, candles, cigarettes, buildi...

Between 1959 and 1984, French film director François Truffaut was interviewed over three hundred times. Each interview offers critical insight into...

Kubrick and Control is an examination of authority, order, and independence in the films directed by Stanley Kubrick, as well as in his personal li...

Cristi Puiu's black comedy The Death of Mr. Lazarescu announced the arrival of the New Romanian Cinema as a force on the film world stage. As criti...

A key figure in early avant-garde cinema, Walter Ruttmann was a pioneer of experimental animation and the creative force behind one of the silent e...

One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin. His craft as...

The impact of French film critic André Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. A pa...

The 1979 film Alien has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Directed by Ridley Scott, at the time known primarily for making advertisements,...

The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well...

On Story is film school in a box, a lifetimes worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages. Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Lo...

Widely recognized in his character of the Tramp, Charlie Chaplin transcended the role of actor to become screenwriter, director, composer, producer...

In this landmark dictionary, Roy Armes details the scope and diversity of filmmaking across the Arab Middle East. Listing more than 550 feature fil...

Robert Rodriguez stands alone as the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today, whose work has single-handedly brought U.S. Latino filmmaking int...

The musical scores of Stanley Kubricks films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking. Despite playing such an important part in h...

This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exempli...

A key figure in the ongoing legacy of modern cinema, David Lynch designs environments for spectators, transporting them to inner worlds built by mo...

Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah (19251984) cemented his reputation as one of the g...

In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, fro...

In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, fro...