Five French Filmmakers: Renoir, Bresson, Tati, Truffaut, Rohmer; Essays and Interviews is, as its title indicates, a collection of essays about, followed by interviews with, five of France’s major movie directors from the silent period (the early part of Jean Renoir’s career) through the New Wave and beyond (even to the present, in the films of Eric Rohmer). Most critics would agree that these five men are among the most important, if not the most important, in the history of French cinema—whic...
Ferzan Ozpetek
by Laura Delli Colli, Ferzan Ozpetek, and Stefania Sandrelli
Lionheart in Hollywood (The Scarecrow Filmmakers, #27)
by Henry Wilcoxon and Katherine Orrison
The autobiography of actor/producer Wilcoxon's (1905-1984) career during his almost 30-year association with Cecil B. DeMille. Beginning in 1933 and culminating with DeMille's death in 1959, Wilcoxon, together with collaborator Orrison, works from diaries, letters, business journals, scrapbooks, tap
This book is an invaluable mirror of the personal and professional development of 2 worthy masters of cinema's great neo-realistic tradition.
Elena. Histoire Du Film d'Andrei Zviaguintsev
by Andrei Zviaguintsev, Mikhail Kritchman, and Oleg Neguine
Andreas Dresen (Contemporary German Writers and Filmmakers, #4)
The life and work of motion picture director Robert Altman (1925-2006) are interpreted from a variety of perspectives in this collection of essays. Actors, historians, film scholars, and cultural theorists reflect on Altman and his five-decade career and discuss the significance of music, history and genre in his films. Two actors who have appeared in some of the filmmaker's most important works are prominently represented, with a statement from Elliot Gould (MASH, The Long Goodbye, Calif...
On the life and works of Ritwikkumar Ghatak, 1925-1976 film maker from West Bengal, India.
Refocus: the Films of Jane Campion (Refocus: The International Directors)
Explores the detail of Jane Campion's film and television output, considering her vision and practice, legacy, and her contribution to feminist filmmaking Includes multiple approaches consolidated within a feminist framework Engages with Campion's oeuvre to-date Considers Campion's engagement with feminism and feminist filmmaking Jane Campion's work shines a spotlight on gender relations, often through complex female characters and an innovative approach to the screen representation of women f...
Otto Preminger (Conversations with Filmmakers)
Otto Preminger (1905–1986), whose Hollywood career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s, is popularly remembered for the acclaimed films he directed, among which are the classic film noir Laura, the social-realist melodrama The Man with the Golden Arm, the CinemaScope musical Carmen Jones, and the riveting courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder. As a screen actor, he forged an indelible impression as a sadistic Nazi in Billy Wilder’s Stalag 17 and as the diabolical Mr. Freeze in television’s Batman....
The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie (British Institute of Persian Studies)
Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran’s leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers. This book examines several of Beyzaie’s films and plays and their preoccupation with the modalities and transformations of Iranian contemporary, historical and mythical identity from different perspectives. The chapters analyse Beyzaie’s influential plays such as Arash and So Dies Pahlevan Akbar and his filmic magnum opuses such as The Crow, Bashu, the Little Stranger and Killing Mad Dogs from a range of critical perspect...
Nichols and May (Conversations with Filmmakers)
In the late 1950s, Mike Nichols (1931-2014) and Elaine May (b. 1932) soared to superstar status as a sketch comedy duo in live shows and television. After their 1962 breakup, both went on to long and distinguished careers in other areas of show business - mostly separately, but sporadically together again. In Nichols and May: Interviews, twenty-seven interviews and profiles ranging over more than five decades tell their stories in their own words. Nichols quickly became an A-list stage and fil...
Contemporary British and Irish Directors (Wallflower Critical Guides S.)
by Hannah Patterson, Yoram Allon, and Del Cullen
Tyler Perry (Conversations with Filmmakers)
A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a multimedia phenomenon and one of the most lucrative auteurs in Hollywood. Known for his unwavering and audacious rhetorical style, Perry has produced an impressive body of work by rejecting Hollywood’s procedures and following his personal template. Featuring mostly African American actors and centering pri...
Su Friedrich (Conversations with Filmmakers)
Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian filmmaker—labels that she sprucely dodges, insisting time and again she is, quite simply, a filmmaker. Nevertheless, the influences of the experimental film culture and of the feminist and lesbian political ethos out of which she emerged resonate across her films to the present day. Su Friedrich: Interview...