Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Luis Buñuel was one of the great film-makers of the twentieth century. Gwynne Edwards analyses his work in the context of Buñuel's personal obsess...

The two primary goals of this ambitious study are to provide a new framework in which to interpret the films of Michael Haneke, including Funny Gam...

Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism'...

Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with m...

Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba. This work offers an alternati...

Bringing together a range of Japanese and western scholars, this is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. ...

King Vidor (1894-1982) had the longest career of any Hollywood director, and his works include some of the most dramatic, sublime moments in the...

Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata are one of the most cosmopolitan duos in contemporary world cinema. Their films tell us stories of...

By the time of his death in 1973, John Ford was probably the most celebrated director of Hollywoods golden age. The winner of four best director Os...

With thirty-four original chapters from three dozen top scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema provides a thoughtful and provocative re-exa...

The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architect...

Intercultural Screen Adaptation offers a wide-ranging examination of how film and television adaptations (and non-adaptations) interact with the cu...

Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices remakes, sequels, series Film Reboots is the first edited c...

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...