Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

The true story of John (Joseph) Merrick--a.k.a. the Elephant Man--has captured the imagination of generations of audiences, critics, actors and ...

The concepts and theories surrounding the aesthetic category of the grotesque are explored in this book by pursuing their employment in the film...

The life and work of American director John G. Avildsen is thoroughly examined in this detailed filmography and critical study. Each of the most...

'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSKH...

*** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux"A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans, Virgin Rad...

In Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Ranciere's writing allows us to broach art and politics on the very ...

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polis...

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and qu...

An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (194498) has become a neglected figure i...

ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his ground-b...

From documentary to art-house cinema and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence films that experiment variously with narr...

Since 1979, China has been undergoing a period of immense social and economic change, transitioning from state-run economics to free market capital...

In recent years queer identities have become increasingly visible in Irish cinema, a shift that can be linked to political, economic and social cha...

Following the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and aesthetics became a significant cinematic exp...

Often described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that characterised his genre films in...

Twenty-first century film and television is overwhelmed with images of the undead. Vampires and zombies have often been seen as oppositional: one a...

John McTiernan is one of the most influential action filmmakers of his generation. Educated at the American Film Institute and influenced by Eur...

Christopher Nolan is one of the defining directors of the 21st century. Few of his contemporaries can compete in terms of critical and commercia...

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational filmFor three decades, state-sponsored short filmmakin...

A lavish hardback containing Orson Welles' Portfolio, much of which has never been seen before. Orson Welles, famous as an accomplished actor, writ...

Much of 20th century science fiction foretold technological and social developments beyond the year 2000. Since then, a key theme has been: what...

A unique document: Clint Eastwood’s story, as told in his own words A reference work in which one of the great masters of contemporary cinema revi...