Individual film directors, film-makers

Recognized as a master of Italian cinema, Vittorio De Sica is perhaps best known and most respected for his critically acclaimed neorealist films of the period 1946-55.

For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved.

Widely regarded as one of cinema's most accomplished directors, David Lean helmed such classics as Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist.

What happens when we listen to a film?

Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter is the first book in 15 years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders's extensive filmography.

A comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film.

Film critic Robin Wood offers a persuasive detailed reading of Satyajit Ray s The Apu Trilogy, widely regarded as landmarks of world cinema.

Suspect Culture was Scotland s leading experimental theatre company between 1993 and 2009.

Esfir Shub was the only prominent female director of nonfiction film present at the dawning of the Soviet film industry.

In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief, the renowned philosopher Michael J.

A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the first of its kind to engage with this important figure.

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.

Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities.

Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demy's 'enchanted' world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Christmas repeats of his fairytale Peau d'ane (1970) or seeing Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac prance and pirouette in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1966).

Since its release, Annie Hall has established itself as a key film for Woody Allen's career and the history of romantic comedy more generally.

Documentary students and fans revel in stories about filmmakers conquering extraordinary challenges trying to bring their work to the screen.

In the late 1920s, Dmitry Shostakovich emerged as one of the first Soviet film composers.

Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes.

PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020Luis Bunuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and most widely relevant of these letters.

This is the first major book-length study of the work of Australian film-maker Baz Luhrmann, one of the most exciting and controversial personalities working in World Cinema today.

Hal Ashby (1929-1988) was always an outsider, and as a director he brought an outsider's perspective to Hollywood cinema.

This book offers an examination of the films of Roman Polanski, focusing on the impact that his life as an exile has had upon his work.

This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration.

Susan Smith's treatment of the works of the most subtle of all film-makers analyses the key elements of suspense, humour and tone across the whole of the director's career.

Ridgeway (Reggie) Callow began his film career in the early 1930s and for four decades worked as an assistant director on some of the most memorable films in Hollywood history.

Swedish filmmaker Roy Anderssons celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.

'A rule of mine is this', said William Goldman in 1983, 'there are always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean.

Commanding a cult following among horror fans, Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror, as well as his influence on modern horror and slasher movies.

Though long ignored or dismissed by film critics and scholars, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) was among the most influential auteurs of his era.

A Companion to Jean Renoir An extraordinary collection of essays that more than fulfills the aims of its editors, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau.

This is the first study to comprehensively analyse Laurence Olivier''s Shakespearean films alongside his unique Shakespearean star image.

Stand by for hours of blissful immersion in the world of film - the world's "e;seventh art"e;.

The question that every supermodel gets asked repeatedly is 'how were you discovered?

"e;With this book, Philip Skerry makes an ambitious and largely successful effort to restore perspective to the debate that has swirled around Psycho since Hitchcock first ripped back the shower curtain of our expectations in 1960 and plunged his knife into the collective cinematic consciousness.

Susan Smith's treatment of the works of the most subtle of all film-makers analyses the key elements of suspense, humour and tone across the whole of the director's career.

Clint Eastwood has forged a remarkable career as a movie star, director, producer and composer.

In A Guide to Post-classical Narration, Eleftheria Thanouli expands and substantially develops the innovative theoretical work of her previous publication, Post-classical Cinema: an International Poetics of Film Narration (2009).

Robert de Niro and Al Pacino have acted opposite each other only once, in Heat, Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller.

Laurent Cantet is of one France's leading contemporary directors.

Despite creating an extensive and innovative body of work over the last 30 years, Aki Kaurismaki remains relatively neglected in Anglophone scholarship.

Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production.

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

This is the first full-length study devoted to the films of Wes Anderson, one of the most distinctive filmmakers working today.

This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance.

A Companion to Fran ois Truffaut An unprecedented critical tribute to the director who, in France, wound up becoming the most controversial figure of the New Wave he helped found.

Carol Reed is one of the truly outstanding directors of British cinema, and one whose work is long overdue for reconsideration.

Czech-born refugee Karel Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures in post-war British cinema.

In a long and varied career, Lindsay Anderson made training films, documentaries, searing family dramas and blistering satires, including This Sporting Life, O Lucky Man!

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.