"Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Fifty years of debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised increasingly pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship, on the one hand, and co…
"What 1970s Hollywood filmmaker influenced Quentin Tarantino? How have the films of Steven Spielberg inspired Takashi Shimizu, director of the huge box office hit The Grudge? How does one document the Rolling Stones and the Beatles at the peaks of their careers? What is it like …
Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popula…
L.A. Rebellion: creating a new black cinema
"L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s…