Individual film directors, film-makers books

Impressed by the success of The Birth of a Nation, Robert Goldstein, owner of a well-known Los Angeles costume supply...  Read More >>

Offers important new perspectives for reinterpreting Russian culture of the Soviet period presenting an unparalleled...  Read More >>

Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality. In At...  Read More >>

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A biography of Federico Fellini that shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature,...  Read More >>

The films of Pare Lorentz are acknowledged masterpieces of world cinema. This book combines the autobiographical...  Read More >>

""This classic in the literature of cinema represents the convergence of the three leading figures of French film:...  Read More >>

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright comes invaluable insights and practical instructions on the art of film...  Read More >>

PICTURE SHOWS THE LIFE AND FILMS OF PETER BOGDANOVICH  Read More >>

A detailed film-by-film analysis of the British-born director's work, from 1935's ""Thirty-nine Steps"" to 1976's...  Read More >>

The autobiography of actor/producer Wilcoxon's (1905-1984) career during his almost 30-year association with Cecil...  Read More >>

Offers filmographies for more than seven hundred American and world cinematographers from 1915 through 1990.  Read More >>

""His remembrances of the German film industry in the 1920s and 1930s are fascinating....important document on German...  Read More >>

""Here is the autobiography of the little boy with golden curls in the paintings of his father, Pierre Auguste Renoir--the...  Read More >>

Brief career profiles of eight American avant-garde filmmakers.  Read More >>

Looks at the social and artistic forces behind this film auteur's personal cinema. Tracing Saura's career over three...  Read More >>

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Covering the entire range of contemporary film criticism and theory, these studies demonstrate Hitchcock's centrality...  Read More >>

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Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly...  Read More >>

Scrutinizes the career of America's first cineaste, aiming for a thoroughly honest and objective critique of both...  Read More >>

Harry Fraser was a tried and true professional director who could be counted on to bring a picture in on time and...  Read More >>

In this extensive review of his career, Norman Lloyd vividly recalls his colleagues and collaborators, his hopes...  Read More >>

""...valuable and fascinating....marvelous insight into the frantic schedules and cost-cutting that dictated the...  Read More >>