Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

The worldwide phenomenon and multi-award winning Downton Abbey returns to the big screen with a movie sequel starring the Crawley family and their ...

Director Steven Spielbergs Jurassic Park unleashed an island of awe-inspiring dinosaurs, captivating audiences worldwide. Grossing over $900 millio...

A mischievous and genre-spanning story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almodóvar'Almodóvars mind seems to be reporting from another w...

Roman Polanskis Repulsion (1965), starring Catherine Deneuve as a repressed and tormented manicurist, is a gripping, visually inventive descent int...

An in-depth exploration of the stardom and authorship of Stephen Chow Sing-chi, one of Hong Kong cinemas most enduringly popular stars and among it...

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. This beautifully designed volume taps into the sources of Feder...

In the first ten years of his career, Steven Spielberg directed some of the most influential and beloved films in cinema history. Movies such as Ja...

The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Containin...

Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (19282019) wrote and directed some of the most accl...

What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the speci...

A lavishly illustrated retrospective of Pedro Almodóvar, Spains foremost filmmaker, published to coincide with his 75th birthday. Pedro Almodóvar ...

Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving int...

Renowned for his masterful storytelling, Alan J. Pakula (19281998) left an indelible mark on cinema history. Alan J. Pakula: Interviews offers a co...

Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magu...

Winner, Best First Monograph, British Association of Film, Television and Screen StudiesThe first scholarly book on John Hughes examines Hollywood'...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Stanley Kubrick Archive is a collection held at the Univ...

Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouses cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emer...

Surely America's greatest storyteller, no single author has been adapted more regularly than Stephen King. With sixty-five existing movies and thir...

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1963, Quentin Tarantino spent many Saturday evenings during his childhood accompanying his mother to the movies, n...

Antoinetta Angelidi directed four full-length fiction films: Idees Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A Square Film (1995) and Thie...

Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past three decades, Linklater ha...

Ken Russell was among the most provocative, creative, original and important directors in British film and television history but his career and le...

From Slacker (1991), a foundational work of independent American cinema, to the Before trilogy, Richard Linklaters critically acclaimed films and a...

Aki Kaurismaki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismaki has produced classically-styled films filled...

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful (Breitbart) tales from his ...

This book presents a series of essays that reassess the role of melodrama in a number of touchstone films in the art-cinema tradition that explore ...

Best known for Aelita (1924), the classic science-fiction film of the Soviet silent era, Yakov Protazanov directed over a hundred films in a career...

Best known for Aelita (1924), the classic science-fiction film of the Soviet silent era, Yakov Protazanov directed over a hundred films in a career...

Before he directed Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Mother!, and The Whale, Darren Aronofsky was a 27-year-old would-be filmmaker str...

A rich and layered photographic exploration of the people and places that influenced Raven Jacksons directorial debut film, Stories From a Place Wh...

An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean PainlevéBefore Jacques-Yves Co...

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...