Individual film directors, film-makers books

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

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

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

The first comprehensive study of men and masculinity in the cinema of Satyajit Ray  Read More >>

Made in close collaboration with George Lucas and Lucasfilm, this second volume covers the making of the prequel...  Read More >>

Like fellow cartoonist R.K. Laxman, who created the 'common man', Chatterji too was an auteur of the common man,...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young and his films in English  Read More >>

Max Evans, one of Sam Peckinpah’s best friends, experienced the director’s mercurial character and personal demons...  Read More >>

With unparalleled access to the director as well as a trove of archival materials, Ferryman of Memories introduces...  Read More >>