Books of Motion picture producers and directors

  • Sam Spiegel
    By Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni

    ... defender of the world " -his wife's term for him - he tried to ease the ... evidence of his innocence or reason why he should not be deported , Spiegel ... wilderness is a prison . " Spiegel would be held there for four months . Meanwhile ...

  • Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder
    By G. Kevin Lally

    Profiles the life and career of the director of such classic films as "Double Indemnity," "The Lost Weekend," and "Sunset Boulevard"

  • Production Design
    By Fionnuala Halligan

    Fascinating for both film fans and practitioners, this book is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to learn about the craft of some of the greatest film artists of our time.

  • Fragments: Portraits from the Inside
    By Andre De Toth

    Andre de Toth's remarkable, brutally honest and utterly compelling memoir opens amidst the enchanted cafe society of pre-war Budapest.

  • The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America
    By Hannah Patterson

    This updated book continues its explorations of identity, place and existence in his films, with three new essays by Adrian Martin, Mark Cousins and James Morrison on his latest film The New World (2005), as well as analysis of Badlands ...

  • The Films of Sergio Leone
    By Robert C. Cumbow

    This volume includes a greatly expanded introduction and contains newly revised essays in which Cumbow analyzes the transition from "peplum" films to westerns in the Italian popular tradition.

  • Indonesian Women Filmmakers
    By Yvonne Michalik

    The contributions to this volume analyse films directed and produced by some of the most visible women in post-New Order Indonesian cinema in terms of their specific aesthetics and narrative styles as well as the socio-political issues they ...