Individual film directors, film-makers books

This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to...  Read More >>

Comprises scholarly engagements with the various outputs of the prolific Berlin based German artist Ulrike Ottinger...  Read More >>

With thirty-four original chapters from three dozen top scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema provides...  Read More >>

David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman),...  Read More >>

This 280-page hardcover delves into approximately fifty of the 245 films associated with Kamal Haasan, analyzing...  Read More >>

This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock...  Read More >>

The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its...  Read More >>

Born into Fear is a harrowing autobiographical account that delves into the author's traumatic childhood, marred...  Read More >>

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This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. His use of political gesture is...  Read More >>

Examines the work of Hindi film director, screenwriter and producer Zoya Akhtar  Read More >>

Examines how the music in Val Lewton's horror films enhanced the films' aesthetics and visual style  Read More >>

Offers the first collection of critical essays on Wallace Fox, one of Hollywood's first Native American film directors...  Read More >>

Offers close readings of Carl Th. Dreyer’s Nordisk films alongside his mature work reveal a stylistic throughline...  Read More >>

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A new biography on the revolutionary Michael Mann. More than just a comprehensive essay on his career, this work...  Read More >>

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Moving Pictures examines the Hollywood career of Karl Struss (1886-1981), a pioneering artist of both still and...  Read More >>

Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document the work of Sam Hanna, the 'Lowry of filmmaking',...  Read More >>

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Blending biography with critical analysis of more than twenty-five films, What Price Hollywood? tells the story...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR...  Read More >>

Autobiography of a horror film person!  Read More >>