Individual film directors, film-makers

In this follow-up to the bestselling The Anime Chef Cookbook, immerse yourself in anime worlds and Japan's cafe culture through 50 favorite anime foods that are easy to make, fun, and delicious.

The films of Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) are at once ambiguous and singular, challenging easy categorisation in national, generic, and formal terms.

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.

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

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

'Sarah Sprinz creates a world that I enjoyed getting lost in.

An intimate and mischievous story collection, bursting with desire and playful humour, from legendary film director Pedro Almod var'A major literary talent KAVEH AKBAR, author of Martyr!

Gangster movie, Western, film noir, rom com, screwball, musical, even the Biblical epic.

A minute-by-minute analysis of Spike Lee's infamous film, BlacKkKlansman.

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

This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and history of the film from pre-production to the present day.

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

The films of Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) are at once ambiguous and singular, challenging easy categorisation in national, generic, and formal terms.

Throughout films and television series like The Piano, Bright Star, In the Cut and Top of the Lake, Jane Campion has constantly explored gender, subjectivity and narrative representation.

This book examines the television serials created by influential showrunner David Simon.

Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sebastien Lifshitz and Celine Sciamma.

Las representaciones pictóricas, fotográficas y cinematográficas surgen de aquello que, en determinada época, es posible ver, nombrar y pensar.

Die goldene Ära des deutschen Stummfilms brachte einige der faszinierendsten Werke der Filmgeschichte hervor – von expressionistischen Meisterwerken wie Das Cabinet des Dr.

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

The cinema of Iran is celebrated both locally and internationally, yet elements of this diverse field remain comparatively understudied.

Screenwriters have been central figures in French cinema since the conversion to sound, from early French-language talkies for the domestic market to lavish literary adaptations of the notorious 'quality tradition' of the 1950s, and from the 'aesthetic revolution' of the New Wave to the contemporary popular and auteur film in the 2000s.

'The novel's dark energies - concerned with histories of gender, property, desire, and institutionalization - carry it forth into our present moment.

Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sebastien Lifshitz and Celine Sciamma.

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman.

In all his films, Wes Anderson turns the mundane into magic by building distinctive and eccentric worlds.