Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an early age he entertained his family with impressio...

The Films of Agnieszka Holland is the first monograph devoted to the internationally most famous Polish filmmaker, a three times Oscar nominee and ...

Despite the brief span of her directorial career, lasting from 1963 to 1979, the Soviet Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko produced a remarkable bo...

This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period. The collectio...

Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Sean Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner (1991), The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledg...

He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits...

William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. Best known for his experimental film about i...

Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s pr...

Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it...

Since the late 1980s, Hal Hartley has challenged standards of realist narrative cinema with daring narrative constructions, character development, ...

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

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film’s original release.The story of how The Godfather wa...

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