Individual film directors, film-makers books

The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak Allouache, Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh,...  Read More >>

The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak Allouache, Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh,...  Read More >>

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Extreme Asia charts the history of the recent cult Asian film invasion, covering a five-year period and focusing...  Read More >>

This is the first study that employs a materialist framework to discuss the political implications of form in...  Read More >>

Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba....  Read More >>

Edward D. Wood, Jr. has been called the ""Worst Filmmaker in History."" In this hilarious and reverential study,...  Read More >>

A Companion to Robert Altman presents myriad aspects of Altman s life, career, influence and historical context....  Read More >>

This contribution to the WISH List of interdisciplinary studies in the humanities makes the case for the significance...  Read More >>

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Everything you wanted to know about the Lacanian critique of deconstruction, but were afraid to ask the Coen Brothers....  Read More >>

Creative duo Charles and Ray Eames were one of the most transformative forces in design history: through furniture,...  Read More >>

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A biographical approach to the films of a controversial and provocative director  Read More >>

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In this captivating book Len Lye's biographer, Roger Horrocks, weaves the artist's writings into a memoir of his...  Read More >>

Hitchcock Annual: Volume 19 is forthcoming in the fall of 2014. It will include articles on Hitchcock's silent film...  Read More >>

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Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production...  Read More >>

This is the HARDBACK version. Edward D. Wood, Jr. has been called the ""Worst Filmmaker in History."" In this hilarious...  Read More >>

Through detailed analyses of key contemporary documentary titles, this book reveals the ways in which independent...  Read More >>

In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of...  Read More >>

In Japan and much of Europe, Ozu is widely considered to be one of the finest film directors who ever lived. While...  Read More >>

Tyler Perry is the most successful African-American filmmaker of his generation, garnering both accolades and controversies...  Read More >>

An American in Paris (1951) was a landmark film in the careers of Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron....  Read More >>