Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional national...

This collection of essays examines the themes and styles that characterize the new millennium work of Italian film directors from different generat...

Tim Burton is one of the most popular and remarkable filmmakers of the last 30 years, being responsible for such films as Edward Scissorhands, The ...

Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, the book moves chronologically through Hitch...

Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he darkened the small screen with the horror genre's most f...

Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV posit...

A new critical and theoretical approach to a neglected aspect of Pedro Almodovar's cinemaOne of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodovar ...

This book collects the best artwork from the first five years of Bad Dads, an annual exhibition of art inspired by the films of Wes Anderson. Curat...

A compelling story of African adventure, romance and intrigue, perfect for readers of bestselling true crime such as WHITE MISCHIEF and MIDNIGHT IN...

From their first film in 1963, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet distinguished themselves as two of Europe's most inventive, generous, and unco...

Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain''s greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as ''the only real poet the British...

Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain''s greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as ''the only real poet the British...

John Hill''s definitive study looks at the career and work of British director Ken Loach. From his early television work (Cathy Come Home) through ...

Leading international scholars consider the films and legacy of Howard Hawks. Diverse contributions consider Hawks'' work in relation to issues of ...

Barbara Stanwyck''s illustrious career began in the 1920s and spanned sixty years. During that period she starred in major films of many genres and...

Frederick Aldamas The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez (2014) was the first full-scale study of one of the most prolific and significant Latino directors...

Winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular and American Culture, Popular Culture Association/American Cul...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time. In November 1974, when ...

Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Ital...

For the first time, Oscar-winning production designer and director Roger Christian reveals his life story, from his earliest work in the British fi...

Inspired by the fabled journals in which acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro records his innermost thoughts and unleashes his vivid imagination,...

In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki moved from success to success as his work found an audience outside of Japan. His animated films of the ...

Tension. Fear. Exhilaration. Atmospheric synthesizers. You''re in John Carpenter territory. One of the most iconic directors of American cinema Joh...

Chosen as one of Sight & Sound's 'Best Film Books of the Year'John Boorman is one of the cinema's authentic visionaries, drawn to myths and dre...

'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hour...

The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic filmsincluding Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The ApartmentBill...

'Over 20 films. Over 40 years. What collaboration in any medium has lasted so long, been so successful, so personal, so happy? Read this wonderfull...

This original collection fills a gap in the literature on Lav Diaz, and more broadly, on slow and durational cinema. The importance of the director...

James Cameron has blazed a trail through the cinematic landscape with a series of groundbreaking films that have each become deeply embedded in the...

You can do anything. But never go against the family. Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather Their tale is the stuff of legend. The Coppolas are on...

The first book to talk about the creative process of one of Hollywood's most iconic directorsFrom Drugstore Cowboy to Elephant, Milk and Good Will ...

Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960...

This new revised edition brings Mike Leigh's career up-to-date, including his film about J.M.W. Turner, Mr. Turner, and his epic masterpiece, Peter...

Revered by his cinematic peers, William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, with s...

An exhaustive study of the major directors of horror films in the past six decades, a genre always popular but often critically snubbed. For each d...

Discover the dark secrets of Guillermo del Toro''s masterpiece, Pan''s Labyrinth, in this thrilling exploration of the film''s creation. Release...

In the course of a 1935 USA Abbey Theatre tour of the plays of Sean O''Casey and others, an extensive collaboration was launched between director J...

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most influential and distinctive filmmakers at work in the world today. His films are so admired that nearly every ...

The first book-length study of pioneering and prolific filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, Silent Serial Sensations offers a fascinating account of the...

This is the first book in English on the films of Konrad Wolf (1925-1982), East Germany's greatest filmmaker, and puts Wolf in a larger European fi...