Individual film directors, film-makers

Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his name has become synonymous with the highest standards of filmmaking excellence.

After 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base.

The films of Claire Denis probe the idea of global citizenship and trace the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power.

Over the decades since he was first hailed by critics and filmmakers around the world, Sergei Eisenstein has assumed many identities.

Bertrand Tavernier is widely recognized as the leading French filmmaker of his generation.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER This ';wickedly pacey page-turner' (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film's original release.

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.

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.

Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world.

Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors: A Sequel is a comprehensive guide that acts as both a teaching tool and a directory for research.

How should we understand film authorship in an era when the idea of the solitary and sovereign auteur has come under attack, with critics proclaiming the death of the author and the end of cinema?

No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D.

This book is the first ever English-language study of Julien Duvivier (1896-1967), once considered one of the world's great filmmakers.

Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic.

This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century.

The Oneiric in the Films of David Lynch is the first systematic book-length study to explore the nature and function of dreams in David Lynch's different phases and audio-visual formats.

With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett (1899-1995) lived an extraordinary life.

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

Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and filmmakers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger filmmakers, community access to cable television broadcasts, and the impact of the historic downtown scene on contemporary experimental culture.

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

Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering offers film buffs, students, and scholars a fresh take on casting, method acting, audience reception, and the tensions at play in our fascination with an actor's dual role as private individual and cultural icon.

Der Regisseur Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) gilt neben Luis Buñuel und Juan Antonio Bardem als einer der Begründer des modernen spanischen Kinos, ist im deutschsprachigen Raum allerdings weitgehend unbekannt geblieben.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

In Sight and Sound magazine's 2012 poll of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo placed at the top of the list, supplanting Citizen Kane.

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Stanley Kubrick is one of the most revered directors in cinema history.

The career of Robert Bresson (b.

In diesem Buch erzählt ein Blaulichtreporter aus dem schönen Land Brandenburg die Geschichten von Helden und Opfern, denen er auf seinen Einsätzen begegnet ist.

This second volume of Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his life and work and the art of cinema contains material long out of print, not easily accessible, and in some cases forgotten or unknown.

Arthur Penn: American Director is the comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential filmmakers.

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.

This is the first study to comprehensively analyse Laurence Olivier''s Shakespearean films alongside his unique Shakespearean star image.

With 2005's acclaimed and controversial The New World, one of cinema's most enigmatic filmmakers returned to the screen with only his fourth feature film in a career spanning thirty years.

Described by Giles Deleuze as 'one of the greatest modern auteurs', Philippe Garrel is widely acknowledged as the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave.

The inimitable, haunting films of Alfred Hitchcock took place in settings, both exterior and interior, that deeply impacted our experiences of his most unforgettable works.

If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, "e;many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical.

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

Over the last two decades, writer-director Guillermo del Toro has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own, astonishing audiences with Cronos, Hellboy, Pans Labyrinth, and a host of other films and creative endeavors.

Responsible for some of the greatest films of the 20th centuryThe Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man among othersJohn Ford was best known for motion pictures that defined the American West and the face of wartime military.

The Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has, to date, written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013.

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.

Albert Maysles has created some of the most influential documentaries of the postwar period.

Hal Ashby (1929-1988) was always an outsider, and as a director he brought an outsider's perspective to Hollywood cinema.

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.

Arthur Penn: American Director is the comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential filmmakers.

Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, and richly multifaceted portrait of American society.

A Companion to Jean Renoir An extraordinary collection of essays that more than fulfills the aims of its editors, Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau.

Casting fresh light on New Hollywood - one of American cinema's most fertile eras - Authoring Hal Ashby is the first sustained argument that, rather than a period dominated by genius auteurs, New Hollywood was an era of intense collaboration producing films of multiple-authorship.