Individual film directors, film-makers books

This first detailed account of Jane Campion's career as a filmmaker introduces students to the key debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Ebert presents more than 650 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews,...  Read More >>

Analyzing an influential film director's vivid deconstructions of gender and narrative  Read More >>

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Beginning in 1957 with the release of his directorial debut The Left Handed Gun, Arthur Penn quickly became an iconoclastic...  Read More >>

Based on interviews with John Sturges, his wife and children, and numerous stars, this is the biography of the director...  Read More >>

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Covers the early history of the film industry from the perspective of W K L Dickson's career. This book also offers...  Read More >>

John Box had one of the most productive design careers in British cinema, winning a record four Academy Awards and...  Read More >>

Willard Van Dyke worked his way through the twentieth century chasing two illusive muses - photography and film....  Read More >>

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For film lovers and scholars, an essential resource and reference guide.  Read More >>

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In 2008 No Country for Old Men won the Academy Award for Best Picture, adding to the reputation of filmmakers Joel...  Read More >>

Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective traces the impact of legendary director...  Read More >>

Collected interviews with the director of Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant, Little Big Man, Night Moves, and...  Read More >>

As a poet, novelist, scriptwriter, author, literary critic, essay writer and polemicist, Pier Paolo Pasolini was...  Read More >>

David Cronenberg as moved from the depths of low-budget exploitation horror to become one of North America's most...  Read More >>

David Cronenberg as moved from the depths of low-budget exploitation horror to become one of North America's most...  Read More >>

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From 1924 to 1936 Irving G Thalberg supervised more than four hundred M-G-M films; made stars of Norma Shearer,...  Read More >>

Derek Jarman has been called the 'godfather' of the early 1990s cinematic movement now known as 'Queer Cinema'....  Read More >>

A biography of John Sturges. It examines his childhood in California during the Great Depression; his apprenticeship...  Read More >>