Individual film directors, film-makers

Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities.

In the course of fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick produced some of the most haunting and indelible images on film.

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.

Among the most innovative and influential filmmakers of the twentieth century, Alain Resnais (1922-2014) did not originally set out to become a director.

Werner Schroeter is one of the most important and influential directors of the New German Cinema, yet discussion of his films within film theory has been intermittent and un-sustained.

Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era.

One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and political martyr.

From "e;a smart and savvy reporter,"e; a biography of the award-winning performer and director that "e;abounds with colorful firsthand tales"e; (Janet Maslin, New York Times).

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Richard Attenborough's film career has stretched across seven decades; surprisingly, Sally Dux's book is the first detailed scholarly analysis of his work as a filmmaker.

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

Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agn s Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual artist.

The works of popular Spanish film directors Julio Medem, Juan Jose Bigas Luna, and Jose Luis Guerin are newly appraised in relation to their engagement with alternative national and cinematic subjectivities.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948).

This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith.

This is the first monograph on controversial French director Louis Malle to be published in English.

Music is an underexplored dimension in Hitchcock's works.

Andy Warhol remains one of the world's most influential artists, and his reputation has only grown since his death in 1987.

Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male.

Most Tim Burton films are huge box-office successes, and several are already classics.

Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium.

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In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential member of the L.

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 Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe.

Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema's greatest modernist filmmakers.

'A rule of mine is this', said William Goldman in 1983, 'there are always three hot directors and one of them is always David Lean.

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.

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

The story of the director behind Harold and Maude, Being There, and other quirky classics: “A superb biography of this troubled, talented man.

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

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

How do we approach a figure like Mario Bava, a once obscure figure promoted to cult status?

Few people have influenced Hollywood history thanDouglas Fairbanks.

This is the first book written on Diane Kurys.

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot.

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

Now back in print, the definitive biography of a seminal figure in film history, whom Orson Welles called the greatest of all directors.

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A behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most extraordinary martial artist of all timeBruce Lee.

A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018.

"e;With this book, Philip Skerry makes an ambitious and largely successful effort to restore perspective to the debate that has swirled around Psycho since Hitchcock first ripped back the shower curtain of our expectations in 1960 and plunged his knife into the collective cinematic consciousness.

This revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that examine Allen''s work since 1992.

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

This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women.

Making movies is the most exciting way to earn a living and it is not surprising that media and film studies remain the most popular courses at colleges across the western world.

Alice Guy BlachT (1873-1968), the world's first woman filmmaker, was one of the key figures in the development of narrative film.