Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of t...

Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed film geek, with five intense years working in a video...

Since 1996, Alexander Payne has made six feature films and a short segment of an omnibus movie. Although his body of work is quantitatively small, ...

Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice. Bringing together intervie...

The definitive illustrated retrospective on the Oscar-winning director of some of the most resonant and enduring films of all time. For more than ...

Prolific British director Michael Winterbottom (b. 1961) might be hard to pin down and even harder to categorize. Over sixteen years, he has create...

Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer. T...

Abraham Polonsky (19101999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspiration...

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together, for the first time, interviews made over a span of fifty years with director James Ivory (b. 1928), pr...

Lois Weber (1879-1939) was one of early Hollywood's most successful screenwriter-directors. A one-time Church Army worker who preached from street ...

Nominated for 2022 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book award Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the K...

A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film, written by some of the foremost scholars in American cinemaAmerican Cinema in the Sh...

Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exempli...

A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick offers a thorough and detailed study of the works of Stanley Kubrick. Labeled a recluse, a provocateur, and...

Andrzej Zulawski (19402016) was born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris. From 1971 to 2015 he directed thirteen feature film...

One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as hi...

Hitchcock Annual volume 27 includes essays on The Whole Hitchcock, and Nothing But the Parts, the complex villain in I Confess, Marnie and The Tam...

The Shining may be the first movie that ever made its audience jump with a title that simply says, Tuesday, proclaimed The New York Times. Never h...

The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspensethat is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling sus...

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cult...

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