Individual film directors, film-makers books

An introduction and guide to the complex work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk. Allows scholars to...  Read More >>

Between 1960 and 1964, the legendary Roger Corman created eight motion pictures that have become known as the 'Poe...  Read More >>

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Lino Brocka (1939–1991) was one of Asia and the Global South’s most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he...  Read More >>

Lino Brocka (1939–1991) was one of Asia and the Global South’s most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he...  Read More >>

Before Chadwick Boseman gained worldwide notoriety and recognition for playing T'Challa, the King of the fictional...  Read More >>

George Lucas entered the film world by chance, but even while still a student at the University of Southern California,...  Read More >>

Richard Brody's Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard is a landmark biography of one of the...  Read More >>

These interviews trace Wes Craven's life and career, from his upbringing in a strict religious family and his life...  Read More >>

Thoughtful and passionate, Ang Lee humbly reveals here a personal journey that brought him from Taiwan to his chosen...  Read More >>

The seventeen interviews in this volume, most of which have been translated into English for the first time, offer...  Read More >>

These interviews trace Wes Craven's life and career, from his upbringing in a strict religious family and his life...  Read More >>

This is a new edition of the diary kept by Federico Fellini, in which the great director faithfully recorded his...  Read More >>

In the first major study of the director, Ana Kokkinos: An Oeuvre of Outsiders offers new readings of and across...  Read More >>

In the first major study of the director, Ana Kokkinos: An Oeuvre of Outsiders offers new readings of and across...  Read More >>

Featuring essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film...  Read More >>

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers...  Read More >>

This book focuses on how the 'Reform Era' has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing...  Read More >>

The Style of Sleaze reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation...  Read More >>

With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle's...  Read More >>

This book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging,...  Read More >>

Examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia,...  Read More >>

With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances,...  Read More >>

O'Meara highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components, and...  Read More >>