Individual film directors, film-makers books

Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema,...  Read More >>

An inquiry into the convergences of avant-garde film, trans-cultural media arts, experimental ethnography and curatorial...  Read More >>

A collection of interdisciplinary essays, collected for the first time, on the work of filmmaker and screenwriter...  Read More >>

From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Igor Krsti outlines...  Read More >>

The first collection to address the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukcs in...  Read More >>

This book explores a range of popular film genres throughout American history and uncovers the ways that sound is...  Read More >>

Drawing on extensive archival research, In Secrecy's Shadow explores the revolution in the relationship between...  Read More >>

As the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding...  Read More >>

An innovative and wide-ranging collection, Expressionism in Cinema re-canonizes the classical Expressionist aesthetic,...  Read More >>

One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive and authoritative academic examination of Nancy Meyers' work and career.  Read More >>

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective ... an eye which does not respond to the name of everything...  Read More >>

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With a range of approaches, from aesthetics to phenomenology to production studies, the authors in this volume investigate...  Read More >>

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Wes Anderson is now seen as one of America's greatest and most stylistic filmmakers. With movies like The Fantastic...  Read More >>

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Examining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1998, On Sunset Boulevard describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002)....  Read More >>

The first sustained analysis of the current oeuvre of film director Darren Aronofsky, examining the many intersections...  Read More >>

Soumendu Roy today is widely known for his long association with Satyajit Ray. He was Ray's cinematographer for...  Read More >>

This study approaches John Ford's Westerns as metahistorical films and analyzes the doubling effects that an encounter...  Read More >>

Kubrick's Story, Spielberg's Film looks at the evolution A.I. Artificial Intelligence—from a science fiction short...  Read More >>

This study approaches John Ford's Westerns as metahistorical films and analyzes the doubling effects that an encounter...  Read More >>

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