Individual film directors Books
WW Norton & Co Stanley Kubrick Director
Book SynopsisAlexander Walker's Stanley Kubrick, Director is the only book ever written with Kubrick's cooperation.
£18.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Cinema Stories
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A bold, galvanizing hybrid of fiction, interview, film theory, German history, scientific inquiry, and his cosmology of cinema." -- KGB Bar Book Review"Alexander Kluge is a gigantic figure in the German cultural landscape. He exemplifies—along with Pasolini—what is most vigorous and original in the European idea of the artist as intellectual, the intellectual as artist....Essential, brilliant." -- Susan Sontag"Alexander Kluge, that most enlightened of writers." -- W.G. Sebald
£12.07
The University Press of Kentucky The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese The Philosophy
Book SynopsisIn The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, an impressive cast of contributors explores the complex themes and philosophical underpinnings of Martin Scorsese's films.Table of ContentsJanus, Tocqueville, and the World Fact-Givers or Fact-Makers From Hawk to Dawk United States Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson and the Intersection Between Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations in the Postwar Era Religious Pluralism, Domestic Politics, and the Emerging Jewish-Evangelical Coalition on Israel, 1960-1980 Subtraction by Addition "One Picture May Not Be Worth Ten Thousand Words, But The White House Is Betting It's Worth Ten Thousand Votes" Creating an Ethnic Lobby Forging Consensus on Vietnamese Reeducation Camp Detainees The Congressional Human Rights Caucus and the Plight of the Refuseniks Peace through Austerity The Domestic Politics of Superpower Rapprochement "Nobody Talks about it, but it is on Everybody's Mind"
£27.00
University Press of Kentucky The Philosophy of Spike Lee The Philosophy of Popular Culture
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£30.40
The University Press of Kentucky Dalton Trumbo
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£40.00
University Press of Kentucky What Ever Happened to Orson Welles
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£28.45
University Press of Kentucky Otto Preminger
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£31.46
The University Press of Kentucky Veit Harlan
Book SynopsisVeit Harlan (1899-1964) was one of Germany's most controversial and loathed directors. The first English-language biography of the notorious director, Veit Harlan presents an in-depth portrait of the man who is arguably the only Nazi filmmaker with a distinct authorial style and body of work.
£43.16
The University Press of Kentucky Clarence Brown Hollywoods Forgotten Master Screen
Book SynopsisClarence Brown (1890-1987) worked with some of Hollywood's greatest stars. In a career spanning five decades, Brown was nominated for five Academy Awards and directed ten different actors in Oscar-nominated performances. Clarence Brownexplores the forces that shaped a complex man who left an indelible mark on cinema.
£48.71
The University Press of Kentucky Ridley Scott
Book SynopsisWith celebrated works such as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator, Ridley Scott has secured his place in Hollywood.
£30.40
The University Press of Kentucky What Price Hollywood
Book SynopsisExamines George Cukor’s on-screen exploration of gender and sexuality in his films.
£56.73
The University Press of Kentucky Cecil B DeMilles Hollywood
Book SynopsisA detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the course of film in Hollywood's Golden Age.Table of ContentsNew Foreword by Cecila DeMille Presley Original Foreword by Kevin Thomas Preface The Squaw Man The Virginian The Call of the North What's-His-Name The Man From Home The Rose of the Ranchero The Girl of the Golden West The Warrens of Virginia The Unafraid The Captive The Wilde Goose Chase The Arab Chimmie Fadden Kindling Maria Rosa Carmen Temptation Chimmie Fadden Out West The Cheat The Golden Chance The Trail of the Lonesome Pine The Heart of Nora Flynn The Dream Girl Joan the Woman A Romance of the Redwoods The Little American The Woman God Forgot The Devil Stone The Whispering Chorus Old Wives for New We Can't Have Everything Till I Come Back to You The Squaw Man (first remake) Don't Change Your Husband For Better, For Worse Male and Female Why Change Your Wife? Something to Think About Forbidden Fruit The Affairs of Anatol Fool's Paradise Saturday Night Manslaughter Adam's Rib The Ten Commandments Triumph Feet of Clay The Golden Bed The Road to Yesterday The Volga Boatman The King of Kings The Godless Girl Dynamite Madam Satan The Squaw Man (second remake) The Sign of the Cross This Day and Age Four Frightened People Cleopatra The Crusades The Plainsman The Buccaneer Union Pacific North West Mounted Police Reap the Wild Wind The Story of Dr. Wassell Unconquered Samson and Delilah The Greatest Show on Earth The Ten Commandments Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Notes Bibliography Index
£25.65
The University Press of Kentucky Fay Wray and Robert Riskin
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£20.85
The University Press of Kentucky My Place in the Sun
Book SynopsisA fascinating auto-biography of the life of George Stevens Jr. and his life on movie sets.Table of ContentsPart One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Acknowledgements Illustrations Index
£49.75
The University Press of Kentucky Citizen Welles
Book SynopsisA captivating and compelling encapsulation of the revered and respected artist.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22
£36.00
The University Press of Kentucky They Made the Movies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction A Mega Producer Michael Anderson Hall Bartlett Frank Capra George Cukor Delmer Daves Edward Dmytrk Philip Dunne Richard Fleischer John Frankenheimer Michael Gordon Henry Hathaway Alfred Hitchcock Chuck Jones Stanley Kramer Phillip Leacock Mervyn LeRoy Rouben Mamoulian Delbert Mann David Miller Ronald Neame Ralph Nelson Frank Perry Joseph Pevney Irving Rapper Michael Ritchie Vincent Sherman Ralph Thomas King Vidor Billy Wilder Robert Wise Hollywood's Golden Age Wasn't Always Pure Gold Remembering James Bawden Acknowledgments
£34.20
The University Press of Kentucky Mavericks
Book SynopsisTable of Contents"Howard Alk: The Murder of Fred Hamption" "Ousmane Sembéne" "An Interview with Marcel Ophuls" "Bernardo Bertolucci and 1900" "Pell Mel Brooks... and He is Mild" "Interview with Hal Ashby Regarding Coming Home" "Roberta Findlay: Woman in Porn" Short Visits with Three European Masters "Interview with Martin Ritt" Two Interviews with Margarethe von Trotta "Bill Forsyth: Speaking with Scotland's Finest Filmmaker" "A Rare-and-Brief Glimpse of Director Akira Kurosawa" "Norman Mailer: Where Tough Guys Spend the Winter" "Volker Schlöndorff and Margaret Atwood: Handmaid's Tale depicts futuristic Puritans in Harvard Square" Three Short Encounters with Gus Van Sant "Hybrid Identities: An Interview with Agnieszka Holland" "Errol Morris and Stephen Hawking: the Universe in a Mind" Two Interviews with Gillo Pontecorvo, The Boston Phoenix, undated Two Interviews with Jim Jarmusch "Interview with Frederick Wiseman" "A Talk with Benôit Jacquot" Two Interviews with John Waters "Set This House on Fire: William Styron and Charles Burnett" Voices from the Middle East Introduction Two Short Interviews with Liv Ullmann
£34.20
The University Press of Kentucky John Ford
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsBringing in the Sheaves Half Genius, Half Irish Himself The Noble Outlaw Men and Women at War Ireland Rebels What Really Happened The Last Place on Earth Addendum Filmography Bibliography Acknowledgments
£30.40
University Press of Kentucky Lucas
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£30.40
Wesleyan University Press Ishiro Honda A Life in Film from Godzilla to
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics.
£36.19
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Satyajit Ray The Inner Eye
Book SynopsisAndrew Robinson is the author of more than two dozen books on a wide range of subjects. They include biographies of artists and scientists such as Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein, a large-format photographic study, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (2005), and The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic (2011). He has also written about Ray for major newspapers and magazines, such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, American Cinematographer and Sight and Sound.Trade ReviewExtremely thorough, often perceptive and at times highly entertaining. It is good to have a sympathetic portrait of one of the giants of the cinema. -- Salman Rushdie, London Review of BooksA signal salute to integrity. -- Lindsay Anderson, The SpectatorMr Robinson's close analysis of the warp and woof of Mr Ray's work makes an almost unanswerable case for the defense. -- The EconomistA glorious book, a feast of research and insight. -- Films and FilmingAndrew Robinson has managed to combine research with knowledge and analysis to produce what could become an enduring work of reference on the technique and narrative brilliance of the cinema of Ray. -- India TodayTable of ContentsSATYAJIT RAY: THE INNER EYE by Andrew Robinson Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations x Note on the Pronunciation and Spelling of Bengali xii Introduction: Getting to know Ray 1 A Bengali Banyan Tree: The Ray Family 2 Early Years 1921–40 3 Santiniketan and Tagore 1940–2 4 Commercial Artist and Critic 1943–50 5 The Making of Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) 1950–5 6 The Apu Trilogy 1955–9: Pather Panchali, Aparajito (The Unvanquished), The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) 7 Comedies: The Philosopher’s Stone (Parash Pathar) 1958, Mahapurush (The Holy Man) 1964 8 The Music Room (Jalsaghar) 1958 9 The Goddess (Devi) 1960 10 Three Daughters (Teen Kanya) 1961 11 Kanchenjungha 1962 12 Abhijan (The Expedition) 1962 13 Mahanagar (The Big City) 1963 14 Charulata (The Lonely Wife) 1964 15 Kapurush (The Coward) 1965 16 Nayak (The Hero) 1966 17 Musicals: The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne) 1969, The Kingdom of Diamonds (Hirak Rajar Dese) 1980 18 Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri) 1969 19 The Calcutta Trilogy: The Adversary (Pratidwandi) 1970, Company Limited (Seemabaddha) 1971, The Middle Man (Jana Aranya) 1975 20 Distant Thunder (Asani Sanket) 1973 21 Detective Films: Chiriakhana (The Zoo) 1967, The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella) 1974, The Elephant God (Joi Baba Felunath) 1978 22 The Chess Players (Shatranj ke Khilari) 1977 23 Two 1964, Pikoo 1980 24 Deliverance (Sadgati) 1981 25 The Home and the World (Ghare Baire) 1984 26 Documentaries: Sikkim 1971, Sukumar Ray 1987, Rabindranath Tagore 1961, Bala 1976, The Inner Eye 1972 27 Unmade Films: Ravi Shankar, The Mahabharata, A Passage to India, The Alien 28 Ray as Designer, Illustrator and Writer 29 ‘Some Aspects of His Craft’: Ray as Film-maker 30 ‘The Inner Eye’ 31 Koh-i-noor: An Enemy of the People (Ganasatru) 1989, Branches of the Tree (Sakha Prasakha) 1990, The Stranger (Agantuk) 1991, and the Legacy of Satyajit Ray Epilogue: A Century of Satyajit Ray, 1921-2021 A Conversation with Ray Glossary Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Luis Bunuel
Book SynopsisA Companion to Luis Bunuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Bunuel s life, works, and cinematic themes.Trade Review"This attractive and meticulously produced companion is a major contribution to Buñuel studies ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. All Bunuel scholars and specialized collections." (Choice, 1 November 2013)Table of ContentsContributors viii Acknowledgments xviii Introduction: The “Criminal” Life of Luis Buñuel 1 Rob Stone and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla Part One An Aragonese Dog 59 1 Interview with Juan Luis Buñuel 61 Rob Stone 2 Luis Buñuel and the Politics of Self-Presentation 79 Julie Jones 3 Buñuel, Master Pyrotechnician: The Role of Firearms in His Cinema 98 Guy H. Wood and Javier Herrera Navarro 4 Buñuel’s Critique of Nationalism: A Migratory Aesthetic? 116 Mieke Bal Part Two A Golden Age 139 5 Surreal Souls: Un chien andalou and Early French Film Theory 141 Sarah Cooper 6 Fixed-Explosive: Buñuel’s Surrealist Time-Image 156 Ramona Fotiade 7 L’ ge d’or 172 Agustín Sánchez Vidal 8 Buñuel Entomographer: From Las Hurdes to Robinson Crusoe 188 Tom Conley Part Three The Forgotten One 203 9 The Complicit Eye: Directorial and Ocular Paradigms in Luis Buñuel’s Mexican Films and Interdisciplinary Visuality (1940s and 1950s) 205 Erica Segre 10 Out of Place, Out of Synch: Errant Movement and Rhythm in Buñuel’s Mexican Comedies 226 Tom Whittaker 11 Susana: Melodrama and the Voluptuosity of Destruction 240 María Pilar Rodríguez 12 Young Outlaws and Marginal Lives in Latin American Cinema: The Landmark of Buñuel’s Los olvidados 255 Ana Moraña Part Four Strange Passions 277 13 The Creative Process of Robinson Crusoe: Exile, Loneliness, and Humanism 279 Amparo Martínez Herranz 14 The Cinematic Labor of Affect: Urbanity and Sentimental Education in El bruto and Ensayo de un crimen 302 Geoffrey Kantaris 15 Stars in the Wilderness: La Mort en ce jardin 324 Sarah Leahy 16 Transitional Triptych: The Traps of International Cinemas in Buñuel’s Cela s’appelle l’aurore, La Mort en ce jardin, and La Fièvre monte à El Pao 340 Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz 17 Buñuel Goes Medieval: From Sewing to Cervantes and the Vagina Dentata 362 Sherry Velasco Part Five An Exterminating Angel 379 18 The Galdós Intertext in Viridiana 381 Sally Faulkner 19 Spectral Cinema: Le Journal d’une femme de chambre 399 Kate Griffiths 20 Between God and the Machine: Buñuel’s Cine-Miracles 414 Libby Saxton 21 The Road and the Room: Narrative Drive in the Films of Luis Buñuel 431 Marsha Kinder Part Six Discretion and Desire 455 22 On a Road to Nowhere: Parodic Movement as Time-Image in La Voie lactée and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie 457 Sheldon Penn 23 The Intertextual Presence of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Belle de jour 479 Arnaud Duprat de Montero 24 Splitting Doubles: Ángela Molina and the Art of Screen Acting in Cet obscur objet du désir 494 Peter William Evans 25 Buñuel and Historical Reason 509 Cristina Moreiras-Menor 26 Through a Fractal Lens: New Perspectives on the Narratives of Luis Buñuel 518 Wendy Everett Part Seven And in the Spring 535 27 Mutilation, Misogyny, and Murder: Surrealist Violence or Torture Porn? 537 Paul Begin 28 Inside/Outside: Space and Sexual Behavior in Belle de jour and La Pianiste 554 Jimmy Hay 29 Surrealist Legacies: The Inf luence of Luis Buñuel’s “Irrationality” on Hiroshi Teshigahara’s “Documentary-fantasy” 572 Felicity Gee 30 Luis Buñuel’s Angel and Maya Deren’s Meshes: Trance and the Cultural Imaginary 590 Susan McCabe Filmography 608 Index 624
£145.30
Weinstein Books My Week with Marilyn
Book SynopsisThis remarkable true story recounts the magical seven days during which Hollywood's biggest star - the newly married Marilyn Monroe - escaped a difficult movie shoot and the pressures of her life to spend time with a caring young Englishman who was an ass
£14.40
Editions Flammarion Renoir: Father and Son / Painting and Cinema:
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£18.98
Phaidon Press Ltd Tim Burton
Book Synopsisââ From Edward Scissorhands to Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton hassucceeded in creating a body of work that is both extraordinarilyeccentric, inventive and personal, and extremely popularââ Supported by interviews with the filmmaker, anecdotes and in-depthresearch, this monograph reveals the keys to Burton's unique world,film by filmââ The author,
£35.96
Almuzara Queercore: Como Punkear Una Revolucion
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£21.60
