Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

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...

This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aestheti...

In this volume leading scholars assess the contributions of Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner and Harley Granville Barker to European theatre. Their w...

This volume foregrounds Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre as three leading directors who have each left an indelible mark on post-war Eu...

This volume offers a compelling account of Jean-Louis Barrault, Ariane Mnouchkine and Peter Stein, who not only won international recognition as di...

This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in detail many of the directors k...

This volume provides a fresh assessment of the pioneering practices of theatre directors Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba, whose work...

Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production and reception history, placing i...

George A. Romero is recognised as one of the most culturally significant horror auteurs in American cinema. From his debut Night of the Living Dead...

Examines the extensive and diverse oeuvre of American filmmaker William Wyler Explores Wyler's work in connection with current themes and topics i...

Considers the remake from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives and positions it alongside other serialized cultural forms Examines t...

Michael Mann is one of the most important American filmmakers of the past forty years. His films exhibit the existential concerns of art cinema, ar...

Harun Farocki was one of the worlds most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years...

Harun Farocki was one of the worlds most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years...

Provides the first scholarly study of the films of William Friedkin Contextualizes the entire trajectory of Friedkin's work both historically and ...

Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving int...

The work of the Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba is distinguished by her conceptual exploration of film. In this publication she devise...

The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions ...

The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions ...

A close analysis of Buñuel's and the Order of Toledo's making of iconoclastic public art. In 1923, Luis Buñuel established the Order of Toledo, a ...