Individual film directors, film-makers books

4539 books were found.

Roy Ward Baker

Roy Ward Baker

Author: Geoff Mayer
ISBN: 9780719063541
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Introduction: A classical director working in a melodramatic force field; 2. Realism - Flame in the Streets and...  Read More >>

Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews

Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews

Author: Gene D. Phillips ,  Rodney Hill
ISBN: 9781578066667
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Of all the American filmmakers who emerged from the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola may be the one most passionately...  Read More >>

Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews

Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews

Author: Gene D. Phillips ,  Rodney Hill
ISBN: 9781578066650
Format: Hardback
$132.00

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The Very Breast of Russ Meyer

The Very Breast of Russ Meyer

Author: Paul A. Woods
ISBN: 9780859653091
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Russ Meyer is an American phenomenon. The only independent expolitation-movie director to make a multi-million dollar...  Read More >>

George Arliss: The Man Who Played God

George Arliss: The Man Who Played God

Author: Robert M. Fells
ISBN: 9780810851603
Format: Hardback
$115.95

By any reasonable expectation, George Arliss should not have succeeded as a star, either on stage or in film. Yet...  Read More >>

American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon

American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon...

Author: Anthony Slide
ISBN: 9780813123288
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Like the majority of Dixon's films, The Fall of a Nation has been lost, but had it survived, it might well have...  Read More >>

Adventures of a Suburban Boy

Adventures of a Suburban Boy

Author: John Boorman
ISBN: 9780571216963
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Offers a memoir of a suburban boy, who's creative life spent turning dreams into celluloid, and money into light....  Read More >>

Filming Margins – Tang Shu Shuen, A Forgotten Hong  Kong Woman Director

Filming Margins – Tang Shu Shuen, A Forgotten Hong Kong...

Author: Yau Yau
ISBN: 9789622096899
Format: Hardback
$130.68

This book studies the work of filmmaker Tang Shu Shuen in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. It is the first extensive...  Read More >>

Louis Malle

Louis Malle

Author: Hugo Frey ,  Diana Holmes
ISBN: 9780719064579
Format: Paperback
$29.99

This book analyses one of France's most controversial directors. It discusses Louis Malle's treatment of topics...  Read More >>

Humphrey Jennings Film Reader

Humphrey Jennings Film Reader

Author: Humphrey Jennings ,  Kevin Jackson
ISBN: 9781857547481
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This work provides a window into the life and work of the great British director, Humphrey Jennings.  Read More >>

Billy Wilder, American Film Realist

Billy Wilder, American Film Realist

Author: Richard Armstrong
ISBN: 9780786421190
Format: Paperback
$92.40

"This is a re-examination of the key American films of Billy Wilder, often challenging previous readings of his...  Read More >>

Body and Soul: The Cinematic Vision of Robert Aldrich

Body and Soul: The Cinematic Vision of Robert Aldrich...

Author: Tony J. Williams
ISBN: 9780810849938
Format: Paperback
$115.95

Body and Soul concentrates on the creative and cultural dilemmas—both personal and political—that affect the individuals...  Read More >>

Von: The Life & Films of Erich Von Stroheim

Von: The Life & Films of Erich Von Stroheim

Author: Richard Koszarski
ISBN: 9780879109547
Format: Paperback
$68.61

"As a revised edition of Koszarski's ""The Man You Loved to Hate"", this biography takes into account information...  Read More >>

The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image

The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image...

Author: Joseph Kickasola
ISBN: 9780826415592
Format: Paperback
$58.00

Perhaps the greatest European director of the last 30 years, Kieslowski created a remarkable body of work in a relatively...  Read More >>

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Author: Paul Duncan
ISBN: 9781903047002
Format: Paperback
$23.73

As well as an introductory essay, each of Hitchcock's films is reviewed and analysed. In addition, the effect he...  Read More >>

This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah

This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life: Violence and...

Author: Gabrielle M. Murray
ISBN: 9780275980580
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Film scholarship has largely failed to address the complex and paradoxical nature of the films of Sam Peckinpah,...  Read More >>

Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii

Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii

Author: B. Ruh
ISBN: 9781403963345
Format: Paperback
$27.00

Upon its U.S. release in the mid 1990s Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the...  Read More >>

Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii

Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii

Author: Brian Ruh
ISBN: 9781403963291
Format: Hardback
$224.40

'Stray Dog of Anime' is the first book to examine the work of Mamoru Oshii. Ruh pays special attention to Oshii's...  Read More >>

D.W. Griffith: An American Life

D.W. Griffith: An American Life

Author: Richard Schickel
ISBN: 9780879100803
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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Searching for John Ford

Searching for John Ford

Author: Joseph McBride
ISBN: 9780571225002
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The definitive biography of the legendary filmmaker.  Read More >>

George Stevens: Interviews

George Stevens: Interviews

Author: Paul Cronin ,  Paul Cronin
ISBN: 9781578066391
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Interviews that showcase the deep moral vision of a director who is as meticulous, discerning, and contemplative...  Read More >>

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Author: James Clarke
ISBN: 9781904048299
Format: Paperback
$23.73

This Pocket Essential examines every Spielberg film and includes a career overview of a singular director whose...  Read More >>

Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood

Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood

Author: Robert S. Birchard
ISBN: 9780813123240
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Claire Denis

Claire Denis

Author: Martine Beugnet ,  Diana Holmes
ISBN: 9780719064814
Format: Paperback
$29.99

This is the first book on the celebrated films of director Claire Denis ('Chocolat', 'Beau Travail', 'Trouble Every...  Read More >>

Joel and Ethan Coen

Joel and Ethan Coen

Author: R. Barton Palmer
ISBN: 9780252071850
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Offers a postmodern analysis of the Coen brothers' approach to filmmaking.  Read More >>

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