A look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family. Part-memoir, part-biography, Lynch's lyrical, intimate, and unfiltered personal reflections riff off biographical secti…
An examination of forty years of films and video works by a woman focused on exploring the dynamism of movement as the voice of the human spirit.
Lars von Trier's women
A collection of essays analyzing the place of women in the films of Danish director Lars von Trier. The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. H…
Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that spawns The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago, All That Jazz, and other iconic works of art, earning him Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar. Wasson traces not only Fosse's prodigious professional life, bu…
In the biggest edition yet, Paul Donnelley has once again added more than 100 new entries and revised numerous existing ones.
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors' examines the work of some of today's most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director's contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact. Revised throu…
Edward Said's first book of literary criticism since 1993.
Organized chronologically to encompass various of Wes Anderson's films, from 1996's "Bottle Rocket to Rushmore", "The Royal Tenenbaums", and the 2009 release, "The Fantastic Mr Fox". This study includes analysis of Anderson's work in commercials, his representation of race and c…
Why are we drawn to the work of Alfred Hitchcock so long after his final film appeared? What is the source of Hitchcock's magic? This book answers these questions by focussing upon the fabric of the films themselves, upon the way in which they enlist and sustain our desire, hold…
Billy Wilder, hailed as a great filmmaker, often considered himself primarily as a writer. This book offers academic but non hermetic readings of nine of his significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, semiotics, Film Studies, and the "artistic sensibility…
A collection of twelve articles and one interview that explains the achievements of cinema from Nordic countries
