Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Expanding on a burgeoning area in contemporary film studies that explores visual and aural absences and interstices in film narrative, this book ex...

Pablo Larrain is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and establ...

The first collection of essays devoted to Hollywood director William CastleOften described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best know...

This book focuses specifically on the contribution made by American female filmmakers to popular genre film. It asks: what do women who are engaged...

Presents a critical analysis of the films and career of George Cukor. Though many of his films are celebrated as classics, Cukor has yet to receive...

In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less than a decade, to a production trend heavily influ...

Teuvo Tulio (1912 2000) was one of the most obsessive directors in film history. As an independent producer and an increasingly reclusive personali...

An intimate account of a seminal filmmaker’s development—as a creator and as a woman—both in art and in life."Joyce Chopra, what a gift of an extra...

Abel Gance's silent masterpiece, Napoleon, was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, un...

The first comprehensive conceptualisation of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic filmAddressing representations of Russia an...

A wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinemaThe first book devoted to a wide-ranging study of developments in global Frenc...

This is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and writer of Clueless and Fast Times at Ridge...

How can it be that more people aren't talking about, studying and revering Preston Sturges, the first person to win an Oscar for Best Original Scre...

One of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a ...

The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architect...

Irreverent, heartfelt, shocking and laugh-out-loud funny—a colorful celebration of the work of subversive auteur John Waters Known for pushing the...

William Friedkin is the director of genre-defining works such as The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), controversial productions li...

An extensive critical study of cinematic representations of Irish queer masculinitiesIn recent years queer identities have become increasingly visi...

In the blockbuster film Avatar, science fiction and the technological prowess of director James Cameron meet in a heady concoction that, while v...

Though Ingmar Bergman became famous as a filmmaker, his roots-and, to some extent, his heart-were in the theater. He directed more than one hundred...