Individual film directors, film-makers books

This fascinating examination of a revolutionary work foregrounds issues of race, class, and social inequality that...  Read More >>

Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art gives new and unique insights into the roots of the visual vocabulary of...  Read More >>

This is work of creative art and satire (17 U.S. Code 107) Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer,...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong...  Read More >>

American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars...  Read More >>

Mathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew...  Read More >>

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood...  Read More >>

By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Mikls Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on Impossible PuzzleFilms...  Read More >>

Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official...  Read More >>

An historically informed reappraisal of the work of Hal Ashby, one of New Hollywood cinemas pioneering yet neglected...  Read More >>

Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and...  Read More >>

The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief’s theatre work, it subversively...  Read More >>

Luka Arsenjukconsiders Sergei Eisenstein as a filmmaker and a theorist, drawing onphilosophers such as G.W.F. Hegel...  Read More >>

Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, more interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie...  Read More >>

Hong Kong Horror Cinemaoffers new insights into the history of Hong Kong horror through case studies of classic...  Read More >>

With contributions from an international range of specialists, and with considerations of works by contemporary...  Read More >>

This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman....  Read More >>

Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen is a scholarly collection that provides expansive exploration of the...  Read More >>

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Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur is the first book devoted to the sound tracks of Michael Haneke....  Read More >>

If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve...  Read More >>