Although Michelangelo Antonioni became one of the icons of "e;modernist"e; cinema in the 1960s, his position in the pantheon of great directors has never been quite secure.
Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle von religiösen Motiven und theologischen Dimensionen in ausgewählten Filmen des ungarischen Regisseurs und Drehbuchautors.
Few filmmakers have taken the principle of the 'talking picture' so far as Eric Rohmer, the internationally reknowned director of the Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons cycles.
Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano's films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the author relates the director to issues of contemporary cinema, Japanese national identity, and globalism.
Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and daring, and yet many often have trouble remembering his name.
A feminist study of the mood, texture, tone, and multifaceted meaning of director Sofia Coppola s aesthetic through her most influential and well-known films.
From the futuristic skyscrapers of Metropolis to the haunting shadows of M, Fritz Lang remains one of the most innovative filmmakers of the 20th century.
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.
Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope offers the first sustained analysis of the current oeuvre of the film director, screenwriter, and producer Darren Aronofsky.
One of the few women pioneers of cinema and a committed feminist, Germaine Dulac strongly believed that the public had a role to play in shaping the history of cinema and the kinds of films that filmmakers could make.
Film scholar Mark Browning offers the first detailed analysis of the work of David Fincher, director of the critically acclaimed films Se7en, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
On Kubrick provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to the posthumously-produced A.
Ousmane Semb ne was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century.
A "e;lively biography"e; of the director who choreographed Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds and more: "e;a real backstager"e; on the making of Hollywood musicals (Wall Street Journal).
Ingmar Bergman s films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe.
A focused study on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's cinematic contributions to the war effort, arguing for the centrality of propaganda to their work as film artists.
Directors and Designers explores the practice of scenography - the creation of perspective in the design and painting of stage scenery - and offers new insight into the working relationships of the people responsible for these theatrical transformations.
Bring your favorite anime foods to life with 75 recipesfrom traditional Japanese favorites to inventive recreationsthat are easy to make, fun, and delicious.
As a charismatic director in the Indian film industry, Chopra's name is synonymous with the glamour of the romantic film and a certain style within Indian culture.
Adored by Russian audiences for his commercially-oriented films, and loathed by the Russian intelligentsia for the same, Nikita Mikhalkov is one of the most successful, ambitious and controversial film-directors in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema.
In Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe, Berna Gueneli explores the transnational works of acclaimed Turkish-German filmmaker and auteur Fatih Akin.
