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Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Mathieu Kassovitz French Film Directors Will Higbee Manchester University Press Mathieu Kassovitz is arguably the most important filmmaker to have emerged from French cinema in the past two decades. As a director, his work often engages...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Roman Polanski The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller Ewa Mazierska I.B. Tauris Polanski is well known; the name of the director of Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist is recognised and respected...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Makhmalbaf at Large The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker Hamid Dabashi; Foreword by Mohsen Makhmalbaf I.B. Tauris Cultural critic and historian Hamid Dabashi draws from his friendship with Makhmalbaf, as well as his intense involvement with Makhmalbaf's films and thought,...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Richard Attenborough David Robinson British Film Institute

Trade Paperback : $28.95 Buy	Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real David Forgacs; Sarah Lutton; Geoffrey Nowell-Smith British Film Institute This overview of Roberto Rossellini's works examines issues and themes covering all phases of his career. The directors influence on film-making and criticism...

Trade Paperback : $25.95 Buy	Shyam Benegal Sangeeta Datta British Film Institute Shyam Benegal is the best known and most prolific contemporary film-maker from India's arthouse or "New Cinema" tradition. This work traces a career with its...

Hardcover : $76.50 Buy	Alexander Dovzhenko: A Life in Soviet Film George O. Liber British Film Institute Based on archival research in Moscow and Kiev and interviews with Alexander Dovzhenko's colleagues and students, this text provides a definitive account of...

Trade Paperback : $30.95 Buy	Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays Richard Allen; S.Ishii Gonzales British Film Institute Born in 1899, Alfred Hitchcock directed 57 films in a fifty year career that spanned the history of the moving image, from the silent era to stereo sound,...

Trade Paperback : $25.50 Buy	Atom Egoyan Jonathan Romney British Film Institute Films such as "The Adjuster", "Calendar" and "Speaking Parts" established Atom Egoyan as a leading contender for the worlds most alluring postmodern filmmaker....

Trade Paperback : $26.95 Buy	Youssef Chahine Ibrahim Fawal British Film Institute A discussion of the frequently controversial film maker Youssef Chahine. The book aims to illuminate Chahine's work in the context of modern Egyptian culture...

Trade Paperback : $25.95 Buy	Yash Chopra Rachel Dwyer British Film Institute Yash Chopra's career as a film director began in 1959, and he has been a producer since 1973. This study of the man and his work is based on interviews with...

Hardcover : $76.50 Buy	The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini Sam Rohdie British Film Institute This is a personal account of Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema and literature, written by the author of "Antonioni" and "Rocco and his Brothers".

Hardcover : $85.95 Buy	The Films of Nicholas Ray: The Poet of Nightfall Geoff Andrew British Film Institute Films like "Johnny Guitar" and "Rebel Without a Cause" ensured cult status for Nicholas Ray. This text discusses his stylistic artistry and abiding thematic...

Trade Paperback : $30.95 Buy	The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity Tom Gunning British Film Institute This study examines the early work of Fritz Lang, proposing readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. It emphasizes Lang's...

Trade Paperback : $27.50 Buy	On Kubrick James Naremore British Film Institute This book is a critical study of Stanley Kubrick's career, beginning with his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), and ending with his posthumous...

Trade Paperback : $27.95 Buy	Mizoguchi and Japan Mark Le Fanu British Film Institute For a majority of filmgoers, the names most usually associated with classic Japanese cinema are those of Kurosawa and Ozu. Yet during the early 1950s, at the...

Trade Paperback : $27.95 Buy	Luis Bunuel: New Readings Isabel Santaolalla; Peter William Evans British Film Institute This text ranges widely over key films and moments from stages of Luis Bunuel's career. It locates and re-appraises Bunuel's films with particular emphasis on...

Trade Paperback : $27.95 Buy	Luchino Visconti Geoffrey Nowell-Smith British Film Institute Luchino Visconti's career as a film-maker began in the 1930s when he escaped the culture of fascist Italy to work with Jean Renoir in the France of the Popular...

Trade Paperback : $25.95 Buy	Lars Von Trier Jack Stevenson British Film Institute With the international success of "Breaking the Waves" and "Dancer in the Dark", Lars von Trier has established himself as one of the most provocative and...

Trade Paperback : $25.95 Buy	Kitano Takeshi Aaron Gerow British Film Institute Explores the issues of auteurship and stardom in the films of Kitano Takeshi especially as they relate to problems of personal and national identity in a Japan...

Trade Paperback : $25.95 Buy	Jane Campion Dana Polan British Film Institute With the success of "The Piano" (1993), Jane Campion became revered by many as the leading female film director of the 1990s. In this book, Dana Polan examines...

Trade Paperback : $25.95 Buy	Godard and the Word Jean-Luc Godard British Film Institute This volume presents a collection of Godard's utterances, between 1986 and 1996, in the form of interviews, prefaces, notes, dialogues, poetry and press...

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Polanski

A Biography

Christopher Sandford Palgrave Macmillan

The celebrated and controversial Roman Polanski has long been the object of worldwide fascination. Here, acclaimed biographer Christopher Sandford weaves...

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Trade Paperback : $25.95 Buy	Roy Ward Baker British Film Makers Geoff Mayer Manchester University Press This book traces the career of Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry. He directed the landmark British film...

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