Individual film directors, film-makers

Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908-1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century.

Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary offers a theoretical mapping of contemporary non-standard documentary practices enabled by the proliferation of new digital imaging, lightweight and non-operator digital cameras, multiscreen and interactive interfaces, and web 2.

Music is an underexplored dimension in Hitchcock's works.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Nancy Meyers is acknowledged as the most commercially successful woman filmmaker of all time, described by Daphne Merkin in The New York Times on the release of It's Complicated as "e;a singular figure in Hollywood - [she] may, in fact, be the most powerful female writer-director-producer currently working"e;.

The 1990s saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the "e;newbrutality film.

Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, True Grit--Joel and Ethan Coen make movies.

Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein.

Eisenstein delighted in unlikely juxtapositions, being apt to cite from Stalin and Disney in one breath.

The Films of Lenny Abrahamson: A Filmmaking of Philosophys of provides a comprehensive study of the films of contemporary, highly critically-appraised Irish director Lenny Abrahamson.

The musical scores of Stanley Kubrick's films are often praised as being innovative and forward-looking.

The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience.

Watching Michael Moore in action—passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?

PAPERBACK INCLUDES TWO NEW CHAPTERSDavid Cronenberg is one of the most fascinating filmmakers in the world today.

Considered by many film critics and scholars as a master of Japanese Cinema, director Ozu Yasujiro still inspires filmmakers both within and outside of Japan.

Spike Lee's journey from guerrilla filmmaker to Hollywood insider is explored in light of his personal background, the cultural influence of his films, and the extensive scholarship his movies have inspired.

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

Viele Filmkenner halten Citizen Kane von Orson Welles für den besten Film aller Zeiten, praktisch alle wichtigen Filmwissenschaftler haben über ihn gearbeitet.

A discussion of the frequently controversial film maker Youssef Chahine.

Many remember Charlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece, The Gold Rush, as the finest blend of comedy and farce ever brought to the screen.

Studies the cultural impact and audience reception of King Kong from the 1933 release of the original film until today.

This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women.

Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agn s Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual artist.

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola's oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social and cultural currents.

'What I remember was that it was the first time a piece of fiction had had such a devastating emotional effect on me.

Federico Fellini is considered one of the greatest cinematic geniuses of our time, but his films were not produced in isolation.

The films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and divergences across them.

Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production.

A Companion to Luis Bu uel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Bu uel s life, works, and cinematic themes.

This cross-disciplinary volume, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed, explores and complicates our understanding of Pasolini today, probing notions of otherness in his works, his media image, and his legacy.

This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron.

Federico Fellini's distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world.

This analysis of the films of Wim Wenders from the early 1970's through the 1990's attempts to place his work in the cultural and political context of the time.

Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critics like Siegfried Kracauer produced foundational works of film theory amid the tumult of the early twentieth century.

This is the first major study in English of cine quinqui, a cycle of popular Spanish films from the late 1970s and early 1980s that starred real-life juvenile delinquents.

Over four decades, Stephen Poliakoff has proved himself to be a distinctive dramatist in the mediums of theatre, film and television.

In Sight and Sound magazine's 2012 poll of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo placed at the top of the list, supplanting Citizen Kane.

Martin Kušej polarisiert wie kaum ein anderer Theater- und Opernregisseur unserer Zeit.

Barbara Stanwyck's illustrious career began in the 1920s and spanned sixty years.

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

Widely recognized in his character of the Tramp, Charlie Chaplin transcended the role of actor to become screenwriter, director, composer, producer, and finally studio head.

Hanekes Filme sind preisgekrönt und umstritten.

KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema.

A contributory volume examining the work of the British playwright David Hare.

Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much.