Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

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'...

a cry of witness to the 20th century - the unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, j...

BAFTA-AWARD winning documentary-maker, Christopher Nupen has made more than 80 films on classical music and musicians. Here, he tells the story of ...

Considers the nature and status of contemporary cinema by way of a series of technological reflections on its pastArgues for a progressive historio...

No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin ...

There are so many insights even hardcore Bond fans will be surprised. Indispensable. David Lowbridge-Ellis MBEOnly six men can lay claim to weari...

From the authors of The Science of Stephen King and The Science of Agatha Christie comes a book made for every classic film aficionado.  The Scienc...

The first illustrated monograph on writer, journalist, and director Nora Ephron, the visionary behind When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, a...

Known for his highly cinematic visual style, out-of-sequence storytelling, and grandiose violence, Quentin Tarantinos films have provoked both prai...

Comprehensive and insightful, Guillermo del Toros Nightmare Alley: The Rise and Fall of Stanton Carlisle, is the ultimate companion to the master d...