Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Pa...

No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin ...

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and...

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contr...

The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspensethat is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling sus...

Barry Hiness novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, whi...

In Rewrite Man, Alison Macor tells an engrossing story about the challenges faced by a top screenwriter at the crossroads of mixed and conflicting ...

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels o...

Laurent Cantet is of one Frances leading contemporary directors. In a series of important films, including Human Resources, Time Out, Heading South...

A deflationary, anti-theoretical film-philosophy through the cinema of Abbas KiarostamiMathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy throug...

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dom...

Examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practicesThis book, like its twin volume 'Female Authorship and ...

The Gainsborough melodramas were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason an...

In a four-decade-long career that generated more than forty films and numerous stage productions, Werner Schroeter became one of the most important...

Cinema has often been seen as a form between media. Early cinema borrowed heavily from traditional performing arts, like theatre and tableau vivant...

Intervening at the crossroads of philosophy, politics, and cinema, this book argues that the career of Robert Guédiguian, director of Marius et Jea...

In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerf...

Style. Beauty. Passion. Vision.These are just a few of the words often used to describe the films of the single most celebrated director in Italy, ...

The cinema of Lucrecia Martel provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the acclaimed Argentine director, whose elusive and elliptical featu...

This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on the...

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britai...

The films of Claire Denis, one of the most challenging and respected of contemporary filmmakers, probe the psyche of global citizenship, tracing th...

Peter Liechti (1951-2014) was a Swiss film author and director, cinematographer, and producer. Many of his more than 100 documentaries, music and e...

The stylistic and bloody excesses of the films of Dario Argento are instantly recognisable. Vivid, baroque and nightmarish, his films lock violent ...

Years after his death, American filmmaker John Huston (1906-1987) remains an enigmatic and compelling figure. This wide-ranging collection of new e...

In 1929, Hollywood mogul William Fox (1879-1952) came close to controlling the entire motion picture industry. His Fox Film Corporation had grow...

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Barefoot Contessa, and All About Eve-just three of the most well-known films of writer, director, and producer Joseph ...

A fat guy with a deep voice who drank a lot of sherry? An unreliable film-maker who always went over time and over budget? One of the most innovati...

Is Michael Mann an auteur? Mann is a formidable filmmaking personality, no doubt, but the notion that today''s celebrity cult of director immediate...

Becoming a TV director is nothing like other professions. There is no road map. Traditionally, the only way to break in was through access to a pow...

While John Ford (1894-1973) remains one of the most influential and revered directors in film history, he is also one of the most frequently mis...

Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II continues the work presented in the first volume of this title, published by Cambridge...

Spanning from obscurity to notoriety, the films of director, screenwriter, actor and comic Elaine May have recently seen a long-overdue renaissance...

Widely regarded as Japan's greatest animated director, Hayao Miyazaki creates films lauded for vibrant characters and meaningful narrative theme...

Harmony Korine s talent as a writer and filmmaker has earned the approval of a wide range of audiences. His first major monograph gathers together ...

Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror...

The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director''s entire oeuv...

The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director''s entire oeuv...

He was the final addition to Universal's royal family of movie monsters: the Creature from the Black Lagoon. With his scaly armor, razor claws a...