Individual film directors, film-makers books

Contains the writings of Sergei Eisenstein - filmmaker, theorist and teacher of film - one of the most original...  Read More >>

One of the most distinguished filmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is firmly...  Read More >>

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The name of Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) is synonymous with the idea of montage, as exemplified in his silent classics...  Read More >>

Book documents from the definitive Russian texts the complex course of Sergei Eisenstein's writings during the revolutionary...  Read More >>

This insightful biography takes a balanced and thoughtful look at the creative and enigmatic man who has had a greater...  Read More >>

This revealing study looks at the influences and creative impulses that shape one of today’s most progressive, thoughtful...  Read More >>

Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not...  Read More >>

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Presents a study that situates one of the world's greatest filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray's work within...  Read More >>

Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in...  Read More >>

Offers an introduction to some of the world's top animation filmmakers, whose faces and voices remain largely unseen...  Read More >>

A study of Michael Haneke's entire body of work, broadening the scholarship on this highly controversial filmmaker....  Read More >>

Film scholar Mark Browning offers the first detailed analysis of the work of David Fincher, director of the critically...  Read More >>

This collection of essays examines the themes and styles that characterize the new millennium work of Italian film...  Read More >>

A study of Canadian women filmmakers since the groundbreaking ""Gendering the Nation"" in 1999. It includes discussions...  Read More >>

Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan began his career while still at the...  Read More >>

Presents a wide-ranging collection in which the Maysles brothers, together and separately, discuss all aspects of...  Read More >>

Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan began his career while still at the...  Read More >>

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Born in Tehran in 1957, film-maker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religiously and politically charged...  Read More >>