Individual film directors, film-makers books

When George A Romero released his first film, ""Night of the Living Dead"" (1968), he created a genre - the zombie...  Read More >>

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Presents a critical history of Disney feature animation that uproots common misconceptions and brings fresh scholarly...  Read More >>

Over his twenty-plus year tenure in Hollywood, Spike Lee has produced a number of controversial films that unapologetically...  Read More >>

In the words of Richard Maltby . . . ""Maximum Movies--Pulp Fictions describes two improbably imbricated worlds...  Read More >>

John Hill's definitive study looks at the career and work of British director Ken Loach. From his early television...  Read More >>

The visionary filmmaker Nicholas Ray spent the glory years of his career creating films that were dark, emotionally...  Read More >>

Tim Burton (USA, b. 1958) is the youngest ofHollywood’s most successful directors. He hasthe knack of making films...  Read More >>

This volume gathers many of the best known writers on the avant-garde from three continents to write on the cinema...  Read More >>

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Based on the work of director and cult legend Timothy Carey (1929-1994), Dead Flowers features new scholarship on...  Read More >>

Film historian Michael Temple explores the intense career of Jean Vigo, one of the legendary figures of world cinema,...  Read More >>

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This volume gathers many of the best known writers on the avant-garde from three continents to write on the cinema...  Read More >>

Walsh's generation invented a Hollywood that made movies seem bigger than life itself. In the first ever full-length...  Read More >>

"Immensely popular and prolific, Harold Lloyd sold more movie tickets during the Golden Age of Comedy than any other...  Read More >>

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The legacy of perseverance? Science Fiction's most unique and hardest-working director. Neil Johnson, a director...  Read More >>

Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse,...  Read More >>

The definitive biography of American filmmaker Nicholas Ray  Read More >>

"Who Needs Hollywood is an incredible story of slammed doors, rejection, ridicule, and ultimately a tenacity that...  Read More >>

John Hill's definitive study looks at the career and work of British director Ken Loach. From his early television...  Read More >>

This collection of essays, by a selection of international film and cultural studies scholars, undertakes analyses...  Read More >>

This lucid, comprehensive and fascinating study shows Robbe-Grillet’s contribution to the evolution of the cinematic...  Read More >>

At least three of director Jacques Tourneur's films - Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man - are...  Read More >>