Books of Motion picture producers and directors

  • New Transnationalisms in Contemporary Latin American Cinemas
    By Dolores Tierney

    Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan José Campanella), this book examines these transnational films and the subsequent ...

  • Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles
    By Frank Brady

    Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles

  • Peter Greenaway
    By Michel Remy

    This volume is no exception to that established tradition.

  • All Or Nothing: The Cinema of Mike Leigh
    By Edward Trostle Jones

    Viewers of All or Nothing willingly follow Leigh's evolving progression of mood and tone regarding the fragility of love . What Leigh achieves in this film and in nearly all those that precede it comes to seem a persuasive necessity but ...

  • Wong Kar-wai: Auteur of Time
    By Stephen Teo

    "This study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai provides an overview of his career and in-depth analysis of his seven feature films to date.

  • Movies of the 60s
    By Jürgen Müller

    The book covers examples of Italian, French, German and American movies that strongly characterized the 1960s.

  • Sofia Coppola
    By Johannes Wende

    Sofia Coppola

  • Preston Sturges: The Last Years of Hollywood's First Writer-Director
    By Nick Smedley, Tom Sturges

    This book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges' whole oeuvre, incorporating a detailed study of the last ten years of his life from new primary sources.

  • Films of Buddhadeb Dasgupta
    By John W. Hood

    Not only is Pritilata responsible for the old man's death , but she has come into contact with his corpse . After the body has been removed with due ceremony to ... And so the film draws to an end with the dead man's rice ready to eat .

  • A British Picture: An Autobiography
    By Ken Russell

    Full of marvellously funny anecdotes and fascinating insights, this is a remarkable autobiography.

  • World Directors and Their Films: Essays on African, Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern Cinema
    By Bert Cardullo

    While his impoverished country and its rotten buildings crumble all around him, the idealistic Alsino—who lives with his grandmother and plays with Lucia, the little girl next door— nurtures his dream of flying, literally flying.

  • Roman
    By Roman Polanski

    Roman Polanski reveals in detail the mosaic of his life.

  • Roman Polanski
    By David Ehrenstein

    Roman Polanski (né en France en 1933), réalisateur, producteur, scénariste et acteur franco-polonais, est aujourd'hui reconnu comme l'un des réalisateurs les plus influents au monde. Après des débuts très remarqués...

  • Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut
    By Frederic Raphael

    Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut

  • Cronenberg on Cronenberg
    By David Cronenberg

    In this stimulating, vivid book--combining memoir, behind-the-scenes movie stories and unsettling and original insights into the traumas of the late 20th century--David Cronenberg reveals the concerns and obsessions which dominate his rich, ...

  • The Coen Brothers
    By Ronald Bergan

    This is the first full length biography of the brothers Coen, written by one of the most talented film biographers and historians at work today.

  • Woody Allen Encyclopedia: Almost Everything You Wanted to Know about the Woodster But Were Afraid to Ask ... But We'll...
    By Mark A. Altman, David Ian Salter

    Woody Allen Encyclopedia: Almost Everything You Wanted to Know about the Woodster But Were Afraid to Ask ... But We'll...

  • David O. Selznick's Hollywood
    By Ronald Haver

    David O. Selznick's Hollywood

  • Francophone Belgian Cinema
    By Steele Jamie Steele

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  • François Truffaut: Interviews
    By Francois Truffaut

    Interviews François Truffaut Ronald Bergan. M Truffaut ? " asked Marlene . " Oh , but I adored The 400 Blows and Jules ... is due to leave for Indochina , tuning himself in , jailed , and discharged thanks to the influence of friends .