Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aestheti...

In this volume leading scholars assess the contributions of Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner and Harley Granville Barker to European theatre. Their w...

This volume foregrounds Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre as three leading directors who have each left an indelible mark on post-war Eu...

This volume offers a compelling account of Jean-Louis Barrault, Ariane Mnouchkine and Peter Stein, who not only won international recognition as di...

This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in detail many of the directors k...

This volume provides a fresh assessment of the pioneering practices of theatre directors Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba, whose work...

Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production and reception history, placing i...

George A. Romero is recognised as one of the most culturally significant horror auteurs in American cinema. From his debut Night of the Living Dead...

Examines the extensive and diverse oeuvre of American filmmaker William Wyler Explores Wyler's work in connection with current themes and topics i...

Considers the remake from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives and positions it alongside other serialized cultural forms Examines t...

Michael Mann is one of the most important American filmmakers of the past forty years. His films exhibit the existential concerns of art cinema, ar...

Harun Farocki was one of the worlds most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years...

Harun Farocki was one of the worlds most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years...

Provides the first scholarly study of the films of William Friedkin Contextualizes the entire trajectory of Friedkin's work both historically and ...

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

The work of the Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba is distinguished by her conceptual exploration of film. In this publication she devise...

The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions ...

The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its place in several New Wave fictions ...

A close analysis of Buñuel's and the Order of Toledo's making of iconoclastic public art. In 1923, Luis Buñuel established the Order of Toledo, a ...

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film. His directorial work includes Cronos (1993), Mimic (1997), ...

Nicolas Winding Refn has emerged as a uniquely talented international filmmaker with an eye for visceral, iconic images. A 21st century mythmake...

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

Luis Buñuel was one of the great film-makers of the twentieth century. Gwynne Edwards analyses his work in the context of Buñuel's personal obsess...

The two primary goals of this ambitious study are to provide a new framework in which to interpret the films of Michael Haneke, including Funny Gam...

Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism'...

Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with m...

Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba. This work offers an alternati...

Bringing together a range of Japanese and western scholars, this is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. ...

King Vidor (1894-1982) had the longest career of any Hollywood director, and his works include some of the most dramatic, sublime moments in the...

Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata are one of the most cosmopolitan duos in contemporary world cinema. Their films tell us stories of...

By the time of his death in 1973, John Ford was probably the most celebrated director of Hollywoods golden age. The winner of four best director Os...

With thirty-four original chapters from three dozen top scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema provides a thoughtful and provocative re-exa...

The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architect...

Intercultural Screen Adaptation offers a wide-ranging examination of how film and television adaptations (and non-adaptations) interact with the cu...

Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices remakes, sequels, series Film Reboots is the first edited c...

The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections...

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of Fran...

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