Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Lino Brocka (19391991) was one of Asia and the Global Souths most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of ...

This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spains most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw ...

Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968), Aguirre, the W...

A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Eye-opening and addictively readable. Total Film Who and what decides if a film gets funded? How do those wh...

Gilles Deleuze represents the most widely referenced theorist of cinema today. And yet, even the most rudimentary pillars of his thought remain mys...

Michael Allen's insightful study explores the long and diverse career of the actor and director Robert Redford, from his early work in theatre and ...

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Catherine OBrien draws on the struct...

Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and ...

The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jef...

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, vis...

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, vis...

Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become o...

Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone wat...

As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the time, Disney hired a group of “...

The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films are cult favorites and box offic...

The city, with its manifold distractions and violence, its invitation to intoxication and dream, had long served to represent the experience of mod...

A rare, intimate portrait of Hollywood's reigning 'blockbuster auteur' whose deeply personal billion-dollar movies have established him as the most...

This book is neither biography nor a conventional film critique. Rather, the text explores aspects of Hitchcocks work in relation to theories drawn...

A captivating exploration of the life, work, and insider insight of legendary film producer Howard Kazanjian Howard Kazanjian, a film producer whos...

«This erudite and informative book on French film directors is a comprehensive deep dive into the multi-faceted and interconnected landscape of Fra...

The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films—including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment—Bi...

Slow Places in Béla Tarr’s Films explores Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr’s approach to creating geographies of indifference through slow cinema tech...

I do not follow ideas, I stumble into stories or into people; and I know that this is so big, I have to make a film. Very often, films come like un...