Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki moved from success to success as his work found an audience outside of Japan. His animated films of the ...

Tension. Fear. Exhilaration. Atmospheric synthesizers. You''re in John Carpenter territory. One of the most iconic directors of American cinema Joh...

Chosen as one of Sight & Sound's 'Best Film Books of the Year'John Boorman is one of the cinema's authentic visionaries, drawn to myths and dre...

'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hour...

The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic filmsincluding Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The ApartmentBill...

'Over 20 films. Over 40 years. What collaboration in any medium has lasted so long, been so successful, so personal, so happy? Read this wonderfull...

This original collection fills a gap in the literature on Lav Diaz, and more broadly, on slow and durational cinema. The importance of the director...

James Cameron has blazed a trail through the cinematic landscape with a series of groundbreaking films that have each become deeply embedded in the...

You can do anything. But never go against the family. Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather Their tale is the stuff of legend. The Coppolas are on...

The first book to talk about the creative process of one of Hollywood's most iconic directorsFrom Drugstore Cowboy to Elephant, Milk and Good Will ...

Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960...

This new revised edition brings Mike Leigh's career up-to-date, including his film about J.M.W. Turner, Mr. Turner, and his epic masterpiece, Peter...

Revered by his cinematic peers, William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, with s...

An exhaustive study of the major directors of horror films in the past six decades, a genre always popular but often critically snubbed. For each d...

Discover the dark secrets of Guillermo del Toro''s masterpiece, Pan''s Labyrinth, in this thrilling exploration of the film''s creation. Release...

In the course of a 1935 USA Abbey Theatre tour of the plays of Sean O''Casey and others, an extensive collaboration was launched between director J...

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most influential and distinctive filmmakers at work in the world today. His films are so admired that nearly every ...

The first book-length study of pioneering and prolific filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, Silent Serial Sensations offers a fascinating account of the...

This is the first book in English on the films of Konrad Wolf (1925-1982), East Germany's greatest filmmaker, and puts Wolf in a larger European fi...