Individual film directors, film-makers

Arthur Penn: American Director is the comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential filmmakers.

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A classic of feminist avant-garde cinema, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s, as she confronts the complex politics of motherhood, domestic labour and work.

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

Christopher Nolan is one of the defining directors of the 21st century.

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

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced.

The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema.

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

Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe's most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini.

The work of Andrzej Wajda, one of the world s most important filmmakers, shows remarkable cohesion in spite of the wide ranging scope of his films, as this study of his complete output of feature films shows.

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A Hollywood director who blends substance with the mainstream Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich, and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a glossy, star-studded action blockbuster such as Ocean's Eleven.

This fascinating collection looks at the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema.

Transmedia Directors focuses on artist-practitioners who work across media, platforms and disciplines, including film, television, music video, commercials and the internet.

Author wrote bestselling bfi Publishing title David Lynch 'a joy to the reader of film criticism' Choice; 2001: A Space Odyssey to be re-released in cinemas in The Spring and highly likely to be the focus of much media attention in the new year; Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), based on Arthur C Clarke's novel, is one of the most ambitious films ever made, an epic of space exploration that takes in the whole history of humanity (as well as speculation about its future).

The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema.

John Hill's definitive study looks at the career and work of British director Ken Loach.

Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America s most successful export.

Roberto Benigni, the Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer, gained international fame when his film La vita e bella/ Life Is Beautiful (1997) won three Oscars in 1999, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actor.

This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period.

Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film.

Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard's films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-normative bodies in constant states of crisis and transformation.

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The film theories of Jean Epstein, Dziga Vertov, Bela Balazs, and Siegfried Kracauer have long been studied separately from each other.

Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams.

Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese is one of the most significant American filmmakers in the history of cinema.

Michael Klinger was the most successful indpendent producer in the British film industry over a 20 year period from 1960 to 1980, responsible for 32 films, including classics such as Repulsion (1965) and Get Carter (1971).

A Companion to Steven Spielberg provides an authoritative collection of essays exploring the achievements and legacy of one of the most influential film directors of the modern era.

Mosaic Space and Mosaic Auteurs constructs a model of mosaic, which extends our focus beyond narrative strategy, to approach the trend of diverse multi-strand films across genres, nations and filmmaking contexts since the late 1980s.

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke s films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments.

Arguably the most famous and critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, David Cronenberg is celebrated equally for his early genre films, like Scanners (1981) and The Fly (1986), and his dark artistic vision in films such as Dead Ringers (1988) and Crash (1996).

In a film career that spanned more than seven decades, Freddie Francis distinguished himself as both an award-winning cinematographer and as a director of classic British horror films of the 1960s and 70s.

The winner of four Academy Awards for directing, John Ford is considered by many to be America's greatest native-born director.

A unique behind-the-scenes look at Japanese business and how the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki were introduced to the world.

Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years.

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.

International Film Festival (MIFF) is Australia's most revered celebration of cinema.

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English.

This provocative and unique anthology analyzes Quentin Tarantino's controversial Inglourious Basterds in the contexts of cinema, cultural, gender, and historical studies.

After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the repetitious cliches that so often accompany a discussion of such a controversial filmmaker.

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.

Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.

No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D.

Creating Musical Theatre features interviews with the directors and choreographers that make up today's Broadway elite.

Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage.