Individual film directors, film-makers books

This book is a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of Hollis Frampton’s work in its totality, from his earliest...  Read More >>

"""A reinterpretation of Antonioni's most important films as political cinema, engaged with issues which are still...  Read More >>

Offers a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through...  Read More >>

Examines Fran ois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors.  Read More >>

Offers the first book-length investigation Albert Brooks' more than six-decade comedy career.  Read More >>

This book, the first scholarly study of Friedkin's films, reveals how they confront the ambiguities of law and morality,...  Read More >>

Through his investigation of Mann's filmography and the personality that flowsthrough it, author Deryck Swan provides...  Read More >>

Kubrick and Control is an examination of authority, order, and independence in the films directed by Stanley Kubrick,...  Read More >>

Explores the detail of Jane Campion's film and television output, considering her vision and practice, legacy, and...  Read More >>

"Examines and re-evaluates the life and career of the director of the critically acclaimed film ""The Deer Hunter,""...  Read More >>

Since the 1960s, documentary films have moved closer to the mainstream, thanks to the popularity of rockumentaries,...  Read More >>

Since the 1960s, documentary films have moved closer to the mainstream, thanks to the popularity of rockumentaries,...  Read More >>

A captivating and compelling encapsulation of the revered and respected artist.  Read More >>

Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success...  Read More >>

"Which narratives and which means of representation does Pier Paolo Pasolini use to investigate the 'myth of authenticity'?...  Read More >>

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors...  Read More >>

An inventive reimagining in book form of the revered filmmaker and theorist's cinematic meditation on Vietnam's...  Read More >>

Embark on an award-winning filmmaker's 3-year odyssey creating 50+ films. Uncover the challenges, triumphs, and...  Read More >>

In the 1960s, Suzuki Seijun met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild...  Read More >>

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Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 19531970 brings together eighteen directorsOtto Preminger, Roberto...  Read More >>

In Ella Raidel's films urbanism and architecture, theory, politics, social change and image production are intertextually...  Read More >>

Stanley Kubrick was up to something. But neither his fiercest admirers nor his harshest critics ever suspected what...  Read More >>

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek...  Read More >>

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American...  Read More >>