Books of Motion picture producers and directors

  • Duras/Godard Dialogues
    Duras/Godard Dialogues
    By Marguerite Duras, Jean-Luc Godard, Cyril Beghin

    Their point of intersection is obvious. Duras, a writer, is also a filmmaker, and Godard, a filmmaker, has maintained a distinctive relationship with literature, writing and speech."--Cyril Béghin, back cover.

  • A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: A Life in Hollywood
    By Thomas M. Coffey, Stanley Kramer, Thomas Coffey

    Written in crisp prose, Kramer''s account of working as a producer in Hollywood is disarmingly honest abo ut the stars and people he has worked with during his many y ears in tinsel town. '

  • John Waters
    By John Waters, John G. Ives

    John Waters

  • Lynch on Lynch
    Lynch on Lynch
    By David Lynch, Chris Rodley

    Now fully updated, Lynch on Lynch describes the career of a cinematic genius who has continued to astonish filmgoers with the lovely and life-affirming The Straight Story and the luxurious dread of the Academy Award-nominated Mulholland ...

  • Murder Hollywood Style: Who Killed Jean Harlow's Husband?
    By Samuel Marx, Joyce Vanderveen

    Paul Bern was married to the world's leading sex-symbol, Jean Harlow, and was a top MGM producer.

  • Roger Corman
    By Paul Willemen

    Roger Corman

  • Roger Corman
    Roger Corman
    By Mark Whitehead

    This book traces Corman's career through the exploitation movie industry and reviews all of his films.

  • Joel & Ethan Coen
    Joel & Ethan Coen
    By Georg Seesslen, Peter Körte

    For the first time, this book gives an in-depth, film-by-film analysis of all the Coen brothers' work from Blood Simple to The Big Lebowski.

  • The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History
    The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History
    By Timothy Corrigan

    First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  • The Art of Directing: A Concise Dictionary of Frances Film Directors
    The Art of Directing: A Concise Dictionary of Frances Film Directors
    By Marcelline Block, Felicity Chaplin, Michaël Abecassis

    This volume takes us on a fascinating journey where we will meet not only leading figures of the seventh art but also littleknown filmmakers.

  • Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books: Critical Essays
    Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books: Critical Essays
    By Christel Stalpaert

    The critical essays collected in this volume reflect Greenaway's relocation of The Tempest along the fundamentally unstable boundaries between different discursive formations.

  • Joan Bosch: el cine i la vida
    Joan Bosch: el cine i la vida
    By Àngel Comas

    ... al film nord - americà . Aquí es tractava d'una família mal avinguda , amb molts drames personals , i això em va interessar . L'escena que més s'assemblava al film ameri- cà era la funció , tipus Els Pastorets , en la que el capellà ...

  • Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image
    Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image
    By Harlow Robinson

    ... Hollywood , she was relegated to character parts , and was cast as the ... problems can be understood best through singing and dancing . No personal or ... tourist approach " to Russia is illustrated in Balalaika in the appearance ...

  • Coline Serreau
    Coline Serreau
    By Brigitte Rollet

    This is an appraisal of the work of Coline Serreau, situating her films within the social, cultural and political context of France since May 1968, and assessing the impact of women's movements on French society and culture.

  • James Cameron
    James Cameron
    By Brian J. Robb

    Now this book explores the life and work of this unique director, examining his career and reviewing and analysing each of his numerous films.

  • Scorsese on Scorsese
    By Martin Scorsese

    Scorsese on Scorsese

  • The Lost World of DeMille
    By John Kobal, Robert Dance

    "As only an accomplished author, consummate collector, and savvy insider can, John Kobal tells the story of the man who invented Hollywood, Cecil Blount DeMille.

  • Merchant of Dreams: Louis B. Mayer, M.G.M., and the Secret Hollywood
    By Charles Higham

    Louis B. Mayer, at the helm of the great film studio MGM, was the guardian of American ideals. He was the most patriotic and romantic of the film makers, creating a dream world for the public in his lavish and luxurious movies.

  • Sam Peckinpah
    Sam Peckinpah
    By Fernando Ganzo

    Yet many moviegoers and great film-makers today - Tarantino and Scorsese to name just two -claim to have been hugely influenced by him. This book looks at why this should be so, analysing films divided into three periods: 1961-1

  • The Movie Directors Story
    By Joel Waldo Finler

    The Movie Directors Story