Individual film directors, film-makers

Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), and for Best Film (Schindler's List).

Let's get to know Michael Jackson and his craft.

Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic (1929-1994) was one of the most significant filmmakers to come out of Socialist Yugoslavia.

Mika Kaurismaki's films challenge many boundaries - national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature and problematic distinctions between different zones of development.

Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface.

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.

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.

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.

Quentin Tarantino is the most exciting and fascinating film director of recent years.

Many remember Charlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece, The Gold Rush, as the finest blend of comedy and farce ever brought to the screen.

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After an unparalleled string of artistic and commercial triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock hit a career lull with the disappointing Torn Curtain and the disastrous Topaz.

Oscar Micheaux-the most prolific African American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent period-has finally found his rightful place in film history.

A minute-by-minute analysis of Gus Van Sant film, Gerry (2002).

This publication engages with a futuristic progressive vision on the condition of cinema.

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

Este libro analiza la respuesta de la prensa estadounidense al cine de Pedro Almodóvar y su impacto a la hora de reflejar y construir su recepción en este país.

Este libro explora la obra literaria y cinematográfica de John Steinbeck sobre México durante el periodo que consolida la hegemonía mundial de Estados Unidos, y que va de la Gran Depresión a la Guerra Fría.

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Als die Mauer fiel, gründeten Mitglieder der letzten Regiegeneration im DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme die künstlerische Produktionsgruppe »DaDaeR«.

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Seit seinem Blockbuster "Independence Day" ist er einer der erfolgreichsten und einflussreichsten Regisseure der Welt.

Für den Regisseur, Autor und Maler Peter Patzak (1945–2021) waren Grenzen ein zwar wahrnehmbares, immer aber auch verhandelbares und vor allem überwindbares Konstrukt.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder wurde nur 37 Jahre alt, aber er drehte 42 Filme und schrieb Kinogeschichte: Er war das Enfant terrible und der kreative Motor des deutschen Autorenfilms.

Der preisgekrönte Drehbuchautor Wolfgang Kohlhaase ist ein geübter Beobachter und Meister des feinen Dialogs.

Das Leben des legendären Filmproduzenten Artur »Atze« Brauner und seiner Frau Maria: Eine Geschichte vom Überleben im Krieg, von einer großen Liebe und dem Traum, Hollywood nach Berlin zu holen.

Fractured Lives is a memoir of one woman,s experiences as a documentary filmmaker covering the wars in southern Africa during the 1980s and 1990s.

Fractured Lives is a memoir of one woman,s experiences as a documentary filmmaker covering the wars in southern Africa during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Given its features as a modern mass medium and thus closely related to the nation, cinema has rightly been regarded as a privileged site for putting forward contesting representations of national identity, or in short, as a main area in which narratives of national identity are negotiated.

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

Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs and the occasional disaster.

R C Sherriff s Journey s End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One.

Lolly Susi's interviews with the actor and teacher George Hall are a unique insight into the mind of a great all-round theatre practitioner.

The story of a railway worker's son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre.

Before Hitchcock and Herrmann, before Herzog and Kinski, there was Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.

Jerzy Skolimowski is one of the most original Polish directors and one of only a handful who has gained genuine recognition abroad.

The 1990s saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the "e;newbrutality film.

The cinematic output of Australian director Peter Weir has garnered numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim - from his early short films of the 1970s to the Hollywood hits he's helmed since 1985, including the likes of Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

Brian De Palma is perhaps best known as the director behind the gangster classic Scarface.

Mika Kaurismaki's films challenge many boundaries - national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature and problematic distinctions between different zones of development.

The start of a thrilling and glamourous Hollywood series from million-copy bestselling author Shari Low and Strictly Come Dancing's Ross King ?

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

She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar.

What happens when we listen to a film?

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker.

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker.

What happens when we listen to a film?

Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years.

She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar.