Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

The definitive history of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuri...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a film-centric portrait of Steven Spielberg, the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-lon...

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. ...

A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented Ever...

From such cult hits as Raising Arizona (1987) and The Big Lebowski (1998) to major critical darlings Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), a...

Director Sam Peckinpah (19251984) never won an Oscar. His filmography is short and uneven, and his movies have never found a wide audience. Despite...

Capturing the 1990s independent film scene and art world through a collection of interviews and writings by Roddy Bogawa along with photographs and...

We know what actors do. We know what writers do. But what does a movie producer do, other than arrange financing for films and accept Academy Aw...

We had been instructed to start promptly at six, since the hall was needed again at eight. We pushed through the curtained doorway, like instrument...

Now a major film, starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh. This edition combines Colin Clarks acclaimed The Prince, the Show...

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

Preston Sturges's independence was at least partially responsible for his unique filmmaking style, marked by razor-sharp dialogue, wild plot tur...

Christopher Nolan occupies a rare realm within the Hollywood mainstream, creating complex, original films that achieve both critical acclaim and co...

Christopher Nolan occupies a rare realm within the Hollywood mainstream, creating complex, original films that achieve both critical acclaim and co...

This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicle...

The tradition of British realism has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, where films by directors such as Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andr...

Alicia Malone''s Take on Influential Women in Film! Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave...

Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema'Celluloid Singapore' is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapor...

Richard Lester is of the most significant yet misunderstood directors of the post-war era. Indelibly associated with the Beatles and the swinging S...

Chantal Akerman is widely acclaimed as one of the most original and important directors working in Europe today. A towering figure in womens and fe...

Over the course of five decades, California-based painter Max Cole (born 1937) has refined her visual language into a series of vertical and horizo...

A richly illustrated retrospective celebrating the life and films of Clint Eastwood - written by renowned film critic, and acclaimed documentary fi...

Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though ...

In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: Its not a message I ever ...

Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his fa...

Horror and exploitation films have played a pioneering role in both American and world cinema, with a number of controversial and surreal movies...

This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for...

In this book Richard Ayoade -- actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist -- reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation wit...

Charlie Chaplin was one of the cinemas consummate comic performers, yet he has long been criticised as a lacklustre film director. In this groundbr...

Jim Henson was the creative force behind a huge catalog of television series, films, specials, and other productions, even excepting the Muppets...

Now in a revised edition, this book is the only published study devoted to Larry Cohen and his significance as a great American filmmaker. The f...

As late as 1976, George Roy Hill was the first and only director to have two all-time, top-ten, box-office hits: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance ...

Charles Urban was a renowned figure in his time, and he has remained a name in film history chiefly for his development of Kinemacolor, the worlds ...