Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits...

William Greaves is one of the most significant and compelling American filmmakers of the past century. Best known for his experimental film about i...

Director Michael Curtiz was the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films of classical HollywoodCasablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Hawk...

Adapted by James Ivory from André Acimans novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among...

A master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity to reveal the countrys inte...

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was British-born Alfred Hitchcocks sixth American film and the one that he at various times identified as his favourite an...

Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolinis pro...

Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it...

Since the late 1980s, Hal Hartley has challenged standards of realist narrative cinema with daring narrative constructions, character development, ...

A detailed, theoretically attuned analysis of all of the Scorsese-directed features from The Last Waltz  to Bringing Out the Dead . Grist illuminat...

Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for fi...

Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films...

The first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. The articles ...

The first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. The articles ...

A colossal cinematic achievement Richard Brody, the New Yorker A masterpiece of identity horror and a dark reflection on Americas past and present...

The films of Sofia Coppola have moved and entranced audiences with her minimalist style, moody soundscapes, and commitment to centering the lives a...

Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielbergs most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four seque...

Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielbergs most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four seque...

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic films original release.The story of how The Godfather was...

This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages ...

Impeccably designed, and copiously illustrated with more than two hundred stills and behind-the-scenes images, this is the definitive celebration o...

How do we experience theatre through film? Laura Sava critically engages with the filmic representation of theatre, focusing on a selection of art ...

Influential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and k...

What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film ...

One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film histo...

Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to, rather than detract from, the value of life, Cine...

For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, la...

How do we experience theatre through film? Laura Sava critically engages with the filmic representation of theatre, focusing on a selection of art ...

The Complete Saga from Mad Max to Furiosa The Legend of Mad Max is the ultimate guide to the high octane post-apocalyptic film series, directed by ...

When Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would...

Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the Lowry of filmmaking by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 19...

This book explores the development of Robert Lepages distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages...

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book analyses the work of Oliver Ston...

Val Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and abse...

From her relatively small-scale feature debut Luck By Chance (2009) to her recent premieres of Gully Boy (2019) and Made in Heaven (2019) to local ...

Born in Oklahoma into the Chickasaw Nation, Wallace Fox directed films over the span of four decades. Known primarily for Westerns and mystery film...

Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, one of the twentieth centurys most famous filmmakers, is best known for his masterpiece, The Passion of Joan ...

The films of Sofia Coppola have moved and entranced audiences with her minimalist style, moody soundscapes, and commitment to center the lives and ...

During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director...

George Stevens Jr. grew up on movie sets. His grandmother, aunts, uncles, and other family members were all entertainers, but it was his father, di...

During his career, Michael Mann has drawn a singular and innovative line within the Hollywood industry. The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Revelations...