Direction Production category: 829 books
Éric Rohmer
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance...
Jean Renoir
Projections of Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
“A warm and intelligent biography . . . that successfully and lovingly evokes the world of one of the cinema’s true giants” (Kirkus Reviews).
Hailed by Orson Welles as “the greatest of all directors,” Jean Renoir had a career that spanned five decades, and more than forty films—from...
My Last Sigh
The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
A provocative memoir from Luis Buñuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Luis Buñuel’s films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries...
by Ronald Bergan
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Brought completely up to date, this insightful biography remains "a must for any self-respecting Coen fan" (Screentrade).
This fully updated edition of the first biography of the Coen Brothers includes their complete work so far, from Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), with a reassessment...
Woody Allen
Interviews, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This revised and updated edition gathers interviews and profiles covering the entire forty-five year span of Woody Allen's career as a filmmaker, including detailed discussions of his most popular as well as his most critically acclaimed works. The present collection is a complete update of the volume...
The Cinema of Ang Lee
The Other Side of the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Born in Taiwan, Ang Lee is one of cinema's most versatile and daring directors. His ability to cut across cultural, national, and sexual boundaries has given him recognition in all corners of the world, the ability to work with complete artistic freedom whether inside or outside of Hollywood, and...
Stealing the Show
How Women Are Revolutionizing Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From a leading cultural journalist, the definitive cultural history of female showrunners—including exclusive interviews with such influential figures as Shonda Rhimes, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Mindy Kaling, Amy Schumer, and many more. “An urgent and entertaining history of the transformative powers...
by Simon Usher
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
"Simon Usher is one of the most clear headed thinkers about theatre in this country. He taps onto a well of experience spanning four decades with grace and ferocious honesty. He writes with precision and wit and insight. There is no more essential book for anybody working in or hoping to work...
by Manoah Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Style. Beauty. Passion. Vision.
These are just a few of the words often used to describe the films of the single most celebrated director in Italy, and one of the most important directors the world has ever known-Federico Fellini. Fifty years since their initial releases, his films of the 1960's...
Pulp Fiction
The Complete Story of Quentin Tarantino's Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
When Pulp Fiction was released in theaters in 1994, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. The New York Times called it a “triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey,” and thirty-one-year-old Quentin Tarantino, with just three feature films to his name, became a sensation: the next great American...
Quentin Tarantino
Interviews, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed "film geek," with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling, movie-informed work makes Quentin Tarantino's...
Documentary Storytelling
Creative Nonfiction on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the growing global documentary marketplace: storytelling. This practical guide reveals how today’s top filmmakers bring the tools of narrative cinema to the world of...
In Her Voice
Women Directors Talk Directing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Her Voice is the first book that takes the words and experiences of a diverse group of celebrated women film directors and puts their voices front and center. This unique volume of interviews presents more than 40 feature and documentary directors from around the world, including Debra Granik (Winter’s...
Projected Art History
Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Concentrating on the two case studies, Basquiat...