Books of Motion picture producers and directors

  • The Cinematography of Roger Corman: Exploitation Filmmaker Or Auteur?
    The Cinematography of Roger Corman: Exploitation Filmmaker Or Auteur?
    By Pawel Aleksandrowicz

    The methodology adopted here is based on the auteur theory in its structuralist version by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Peter Wollen, and focuses on three areas of interest: work ethic â " personal elements in the films, personal control over ...

  • George Lucas
    By Karina Longworth

    The Star Wars series has spawned a range of other media, including TV series, video games and comic books. With this simple yet powerful saga, Lucas has created a brand, a business empire and a technological revolution.

  • Oliver Stone: Interviews
    Oliver Stone: Interviews
    By Oliver Stone

    Ranging from 1981 to 1997, the 15 conversations featured in this collection reveal a man frustrated by what he sees as the hypocrisies of American politics, of conservatism, and of the Hollywood film industry.

  • Alfred Hitchcock

    Alfred Hitchcock

  • You're the Director...You Figure it Out: The Life and Films of Richard Donner
    You're the Director...You Figure it Out: The Life and Films of Richard Donner
    By James Christie

    Richard Donner is one of Hollywood's most important filmmakers, the driving force behind iconic hits The Omen, Superman, The Goonies, and the Lethal Weapon series.

  • Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry
    Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry
    By Maĭi︠a︡ Iosifovna Turovskai︠a︡

    This is the first book about Andrey Tarkovsky by a leading Soviet critic to be translated into English. Maya Turovskaya was one of the first to hail Tarkovsky's originality when she was Ivan's Childhood in 1962.

  • Jacques Becker, ou, L'exercice de la liberté
    Jacques Becker, ou, L'exercice de la liberté
    By Valérie Vignaux

    Nous acceptons des sujets proposés et précisément nous avons tort de le faire . ... une histoire bâtie à chaux et à sable , bien mieux bâtie que de prétendus chefs - d'æuvres littéraires , Le Voleur de bicyclette une histoire mince ?

  • Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh
    Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh
    By Mike Leigh

    This new edition updates Mike Leigh's career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epic masterpiece Peterloo.

  • Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh
    By Anthony Minghella

    A five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner and the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for Secrets & Lies) and Venice (for Vera Drake), Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema's preeminent figures.

  • Sorting Facts, Or, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
    Sorting Facts, Or, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker
    By Susan Howe

    "Poetry and cinema collide in Susan Howe's masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout, as well as those of Andrei Tarkovsky."--Publisher's website.

  • Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music in Film and on Your Screen
    Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music in Film and on Your Screen
    By Harvey Kubernik

    Insiders' accounts of the deals behind the fusion of creativity and commerce in film and television.

  • The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor
    The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor
    By Sean Redmond, Deborah Jermyn

    This collection explores how Bigelow can be seen to provide a point of intersection to a whole range of issues at the forefront of contemporary film studies and of the transformation of Hollywood into a post-classical cinema machine, with a ...

  • Jean-Luc Godard
    By Jean-Luc Godard

    Jean-Luc Godard

  • Peter Weir and His Films: A Critical Bibliography
    By Theo Peeters

    Peter Weir and His Films: A Critical Bibliography

  • Altman on Altman
    By Robert Altman

    Here, in his own words, one of American cinema's foremost mavericks - the man behind 'MA*S*H', 'Nashville', 'The Player' and 'Gosford Park' - reflects on a brilliant career.

  • Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, a Personal Biography
    Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, a Personal Biography
    By Charlotte Chandler

    At every visit the tape-recorder was left on, and their conversations were preserved. Over time, Wilder introduced her to his friends, who also were taped for inclusion in the book.

  • The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
    By George C. Perry

    The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

  • Conversations avec Martin Scorsese
    By Martin Scorsese, Richard Schickel

    Depuis son arrivée sur la scène internationale avec Mean Streets puis Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese n'a cessé de surprendre et d'enthousiasmer son public, construisant au fil du temps une o...

  • La cinematografía de Alfonso Sánchez: periodista inteligente, y sin embargo, popular
    La cinematografía de Alfonso Sánchez: periodista inteligente, y sin embargo, popular
    By José Antonio Postigo

    Y su cine es el único que se presenta con vocación de renovar , con sangre caliente y problemas humanos duros ... de que para esa obra trascendental del cine que es “ Ciudadano Kane ” OrWelles rodeó de Robert Wise , Mark Robbson y Gregg ...

  • Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick
    Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick
    By David Thomson

    The authorized biography of this Hollywood producer, who made REBECCA and GONE WITH THE WIND, looking at his career from his swift rise to prominence to the collapse of his empire.