Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

'Nobody could make a film like Stanley Kubrick.' Steven SpielbergKubrick's interest in observing human folly produced some of the most important wo...

This new and updated edition covers the full life's work of iconic director Tim Burton, including the Netflix phenomenon Wednesday and the start of...

Over his four-decade long career, Abel Ferrara has built himself a reputation as one of the most audacious and unconventional filmmakers in contemp...

American director Philip Kaufman is hard to pin down: a visual stylist who is truly literate, a San Franciscan who often makes European films, he i...

The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and ...

Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, often considered the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But...

This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. From ear...

An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.Kathleen Collins (194288) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginnin...

Hitchcock Annual, volume 22, contains essays on Muybridge and Vertigo; undoing propaganda in Yeats, Hitchcock, and de Man; three newspaper article...

A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and strugglin...

Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent film...

Animated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (19472020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness...

Charles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of this country's finest directors, yet he remains largely unknown...

Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (b. 1960) began his career while still an undergraduate at the Univers...

Martin Scorsese (b. 1942) has long been considered one of Americas greatest cinematic storytellers. Over the last fifty years he has created some o...

A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (19321995) was the only French director of his generation to enj...

Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the Eas...

Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show (1971), Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939) interviewed some of cinema's great ...

In Albert and David Maysles: Interviews, editor Keith Beattie has compiled a wide-ranging collection in which the brothers, together and separately...

Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producin...

The films of John Waters (b. 1946) are some of the most powerful send-ups of conventional film forms and expectations since Luis Bu-uel and Salvado...

Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (b. 1960) began his career while still an undergraduate at the Univers...

James Cameron (b. 1954) is lauded as one of the most successful and innovative filmmakers of the last thirty years. His films often break records, ...

One of Canada's premier cinematic exports, Guy Maddin (b. 1956) is an award-winning filmmaker with a rising reputation. Known for his autobiographi...