Individual film directors, film-makers

Swedish filmmaker Roy Anderssons celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.

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

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.

With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years.

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Americas premier female Illusionist, Lyn Dillies, adds another DIMENSION to her sparkling career: YOUR VOTE IS MAGIC!

In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th.

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).

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film.

Christopher Nolan is one of the defining directors of the 21st century.

He was Red Skelton's favorite director, and mentored Lucille Ball in the art of physical comedy.

Few people have influenced Hollywood history thanDouglas Fairbanks.

The 'Gainsborough melodramas' were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger.

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.

Costa-Gavras is a seminal figure in French and international cinema.

This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration.

'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.

On one level, this book provides a concise and comprehensive account of Robert Guediguian's numerous films, combining meticulous stylistic analyses with historical, political, and generic context.

On one level, this book provides a concise and comprehensive account of Robert Guediguian's numerous films, combining meticulous stylistic analyses with historical, political, and generic context.

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

This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron.

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.

Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production.

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.

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

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.

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.

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century.

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.

This is the third adventure in our series on cool inventions created in Asia.

Die Filme des japanischen Regisseurs Mikio Naruse (1905–1969) erzählen vor allem Geschichten aus dem Alltag, insbesondere dem der Frauen.

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

Now back in print, this acclaimed biography reassesses a titan of early cinema based on new material released after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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

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.

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

This is the first major study in English of cine quinqui, a cycle of popular Spanish films from the late 1970s and early 1980s that starred real-life juvenile delinquents.

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.

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.

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced.

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

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.

This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith.

This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994.