Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

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...

Icons of Cinema: Baz Luhrmann explores the fascinating and flamboyant career of one of the world's best-loved movie directors. Famous for his lavis...

The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American film-making, if not the entire world.'Suprem...

A facsimile edition of Derek Jarmans sole, early, extremely rare poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, originally published in 1972.Heavily ill...

Known for his surrealist films, his unique approach to tarot, his symbolic comics, and his shamanic therapeutic method of psychomagic, Alejandro Jo...

Alfred Hitchcock was a major figure in the development and flourishing of film noir. His noir films became an inspirational foundation of the neo-n...

In all his films, Wes Anderson turns the mundane into magic by building distinctive and eccentric worlds. But how well do you know the man behind t...

A Companion to Martin Scorsese A Companion to Martin ScorseseThis valuable book brings the exceptional scale of Martin Scorseses film work into cle...

A Companion to Jean Renoir An extraordinary collection of essays that more than fulfills the aims of its editors, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vin...

A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of its kind to engage with this important figure. Twenty-eight essays by an international grou...