Books of Motion picture producers and directors

  • The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
    By Neil Sinyard

    The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

  • Pasolini's Bodies and Places
    Pasolini's Bodies and Places
    By Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michele Mancini

    These text were unpublished prior to Corpi e Luoghi. With Stephen Sartarelli's translations in the present edition they now are fully available in English."--Edition Patrick Frey

  • Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy
    Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy
    By Matthew Kennedy

    For the Dark Victory script and appreciation , see Casey Robinson , Dark Victory , edited with an introduction by Bernard F. Dick . Memos on the making of Goulding's Warner Bros. movies are found in Rudy Behlmer's Inside Warner Bros.

  • A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
    A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
    By Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson

    This is not an orthodox film history, but rather a genuinely personal voyage of discovery.

  • Steven Spielberg: A Biography
    Steven Spielberg: A Biography
    By Joseph McBride

    Originally published: New York: Simon and Schuster, c1997. An extensive updating of the major critical biography of an acclaimed director

  • A Bird of Passage: The Story of My Life
    A Bird of Passage: The Story of My Life
    By Otto Lang

    This legendary skier gives a firsthand account of his colorful life and his impact on the world of skiing. One of the well-known "ski pioneers", Lang directed the famed Sun Valley Ski School.

  • Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews
    Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews
    By Francis Ford Coppola

    A collection of interviews with Francis Ford Coppola from the beginning of his career to the present shows how the acclaimed filmmaker has evolved from a film maverick to a studio-savvy Hollywood player.

  • The Cinema of Jan Švankmajer: Dark Alchemy
    The Cinema of Jan Švankmajer: Dark Alchemy
    By Peter Hames

    This text explores the legacy of the legendary Czech surrealist filmmaker, a key influence on directors such as Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam, and one of the greatest animators in cinema history.

  • 501 Movie Directors
    501 Movie Directors
    By Steven Jay Schneider

    This is a complete, illustrated guide to the most inspiring men and women behind the camera.

  • Directors A-Z: A Concise Guide to the Art of 250 Great Film-makers
    Directors A-Z: A Concise Guide to the Art of 250 Great Film-makers
    By Geoff Andrew

    Covering classical Hollywood cinema, contemporary film-making and the classics of world cinema, this book is a visual guide to 250 of the all time greatest directors.

  • Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura
    Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura
    By Lindsay Coleman

    Only a filmmaker as richly ironic as Imamura would allow such an idealistic notion as espoused by Forster to play out in the following scene in Vengeance Is Mine, where Hisano Asano, the mother of Enokizu's love Haru, and a killer ...

  • Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock
    By Peter Ackroyd

    Peter Ackroyd turns his gimlet eye to one of the twentieth century's most revered directors.Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child.

  • Albert Capellani: cinéaste du romanesque
    By Christine Leteux

    Albert Capellani: cinéaste du romanesque

  • D. W. Griffith: Interviews
    D. W. Griffith: Interviews
    By Anthony Slide

    Interviews with one of the great early film directors, maestro of The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Hearts of the World

  • Coppola
    By Peter Cowie

    Talking exclusively to Peter Cowie for the updated edition of this biography, Coppola looks back on the past 20 years and reflects on his much-cherished independence, as well as on the state of modern cinema.

  • Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews
    Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews
    By Jean-Luc Godard

    Collected interviews with the French director of Breathless and Hail Mary

  • Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese
    By Andy Dougan

    'This is a powerful film.. the final scene is a cinematically brilliant sequence...' crowed Variety. At least one of Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Raging Bull and The King Of Comedy is on everyone's top ten best films.

  • Under Her Spell: Roberto Rossellini in India
    Under Her Spell: Roberto Rossellini in India
    By Dileep Padgaonkar

    -Adriano Aprà, Italian Film Historian The Joy Of Discovery In Rossellini S (Film), India, Is Echoed In This Magnificent Chronicle Of The Italian Director S Incredible Adventures& Dileep Padgaonkar Has Found A Wealth Of New Sources For This ...

  • Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
    Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
    By Vincent LoBrutto

    A biography of Kubrick

  • The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway
    The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway
    By Alexander Graf

    36 John Ellis ( 1992 ) Visible Fictions : Cinema ; Television ; Video . London and New York : Routledge , p . 240 . 37 Kracauer , Theory of Film , p . 167 . 38 Ellis , Visible Fictions , p . 236 . 39 Wenders , The Logic of Images , p .