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In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to the posthumously-produced A.

Catherine Deneuve is indisputably one of the world's most celebrated actresses, both in her native France and throughout the world.

Until his early retirement at age 50, Hasse Ekman was one of the leading lights of Swedish cinema, an actor, writer, and director of prodigious talents.

How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones?

Ang Lee (b.

A Critical Cinema 5 is the fifth volume in Scott MacDonald's Critical Cinema series, the most extensive, in-depth exploration of independent cinema available in English.

Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material.

Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice.

This is the first book-length study in English on Chabrol since 1970.

Belligerent and evasive, Josef von Sternberg chose to ignore his illegitimate birth in Austria, deprived New York childhood, abusive father, and lack of education.

This first introduction to Medvedkin's film-making career traces his process of developing a unique brand of cinematic satire throughout the period of the Soviet revolutionary experiment.

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.

During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902--1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-of-field cinematography.

Guy Maddin is one of Canada's most celebrated and original filmmakers, the director of such delirious films as Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, The Saddest Music in the World and My Winnipeg.

Neon Knight Forever is a detailed study of one of the most misunderstood superhero series that dares to ask the most heretical question for all Bat-fans: what if Batman & Robin is actually a valuable achievement in big-budget superhero cinema?

David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of gruesome murders.

Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob massacre in Chicago who then, disguised as women, join a female band to escape the gangsters' pursuit.

This revealing study looks at the influences and creative impulses that shape one of today's most progressive, thoughtful filmmakers.

Polanski is one of the most talented and distinguished of modern film makers.

A New History of Documentary Film includes new research that offers a fresh way to understand how the field began and grew.

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.

Akira Kurosawa said of the great director: 'Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.

The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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.

Die Beiträge dieses zweisprachigen Bandes ordnen die Ästhetik von Yasujirō Ozus Filmen in die seiner Zeitgenossen ein.

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

Whether addressing HIV/AIDS, the policing of bathroom sex, censorship, or anti-globalization movements, John Greyson has imbued his work with cutting humour, eroticism, and postmodern aesthetics.

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick's work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema.

Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema's rise as an international force.

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

Anthony Minghella: Interviews is an illuminating anthology of in-depth conversations with this important contemporary film director and producer.

A complex and at times controversial film-maker whose career spanned the second half of the twentieth century, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) remains central to the Italian cultural imagery and the object of ongoing debates and critical scrutiny at home and abroad.

The impact of significant loss has exerted a powerful influence on several American avant-garde filmmakers .

Ida Lupino, Filmmaker begins with an exploration of biographical studies and analytical treatments of Lupino's film and television work as director, moving forward to assess Lupino's career in film and television with particular attention given to Lupino's singular, pioneering achievements and her role(s) within the cultural milieu(s) of her time, particularly the representation of women in cinema.

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.

Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b.

Das umfangreiche Werk des Rekord-Grimme-Preisträgers Dominik Graf ist so vielseitig wie kein anderes eines deutschen Filmemachers.

Edited by two renowned Allen experts, A Companion to Woody Allen presents a collection of 26 original essays on the director s films.

Before the turn of the twentieth century, before the nickelodeon, even before the first cinemas, Georges Melies began making movies.

This book examines the work and art of Bill Douglas, thirty years after his death.

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

This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur!

Claude Sautets Filme sind auf den ersten Blick unterhaltsame, zeitlose Geschichten über die kleinen und größeren Widrigkeiten des Lebens.

The brilliance of Christopher Nolan's ingenious thriller Memento has had moviegoers coming back for more.

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).

This volume explores Fargo from a variety of methodological perspectives.

Jacques Rivette is perhaps the best-kept secret of French cinema.

Novelist, comics writer, scriptwriter, poet, occasional artist - a master of several genres and inadvertent leader of many cults - there are few creative avenues Neil Gaiman hasn't ventured down.