Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. W...

Refocus:The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwrite...

One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and inter...

From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers...

From the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hy...

With the dark, mythical magic of the Winternight trilogy, and the slow-burn romance of Spinning Silver, NORTH IS THE NIGHT is a feminist fantasy ad...

With the dark, mythical magic of the Winternight trilogy, and the slow-burn romance of Spinning Silver, NORTH IS THE NIGHT is a feminist fantasy ad...

Mai Elizabeth Zetterling (1925-94) is among the most exceptional postwar female filmmakers. Born in Sweden, she lived in England and France for mos...

Contemporary Directors Cinema refreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifi...

'An impressively deep dive... Essential for anime enthusiasts.'- EMPIREStep beyond the magical movies and explore the wider world of Studio Ghibli....

*Pre-order the new novel from the bestselling author of the Fable series and Spells for Forgetting*The only thing James and Johnny Golden have ever...

*Pre-order the new novel from the bestselling author of the Fable series and Spells for Forgetting*The only thing James and Johnny Golden have ever...

Asia's film industries have undergone significant transformation in the last 30 years. From bilateral co-production agreements to pan-Asian financi...

Ana Kokkinos is an Australian screenwriter, producer and director who has worked in film and television for almost thirty years. Best known for her...

Explores how Armstrong's films re-work conventions about literary adaptation, biography and realist storytellingExamines Armstrong's work in light ...

Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where 'independent' operates ...

When we think of the pulse in cinema, we may think of the heartbeat of the spectator as they respond to affective or moving scenes in the film, or ...

Greek Cinema and Migration provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the cap...

Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collectio...

Since 2007 Mia Hansen-Lve has directed a series of meditative film dramas about families, love, vulnerability and growing up, all of them exception...

Making a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht...