Unearth the Magic Behind the Silver Screen Step into the captivating world of cinema with Frames of Time: A Journey Thro......more

This volume brings together a range of voices from across the global environmental media community to build a comparativ......more

Dwight Little’s Hollywood career includes directing and producing major motion pictures for multiple studios, acclaimed ......more

This book examines the significance of the thirty-two Krimi films produced by Rialto Film from 1959 to 1972, canonizing ......more

This fully revised fourth edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the roles, procedures, and logistics of the fil......more

This fully revised fourth edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the roles, procedures, and logistics of the fil......more

A scintillating memoir of William C. DeMille’s years as a Hollywood director and producer during the golden age of cinem......more

Margaret Cussler shares her experiences as a documentary filmmaker in this engaging and entertaining memoir. From her ea......more

Margaret Cussler shares her experiences as a documentary filmmaker in this engaging and entertaining memoir. From her ea......more

Since the pioneering work of Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks and Jennifer M. Barker, film studies has increasingly embra......more

Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action ......more

Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms explores the intricate complexity of selected films and film-making pra......more

Mary Harron’s diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page,......more

Are you ready to take a trip down memory lane to the golden age of blockbuster movies? Popcorn Movies - The Blockbuster ......more

Unleashing Global Cinema 1980-2000 takes you on a journey through the world of cinema in the late 20th century, a period......more

This edited collection provides an insightful look at the career and output of American horror director Wes Craven, whos......more

This edited volume offers a wide-ranging picture of Argentine women filmmakers’ contribution to the film industry from t......more

Shot by Shot is the world’s go-to directing book, now newly updated for a special 25th Anniversary edition! The first ed......more

Exploring anti-mimesis and image destruction in Western European films, Iconoclasm in European Cinema: The Ethics and Ae......more

Veteran NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a hands-......more

This book explores 2010s Hong Kong film industry, focusing on its (presumably) independent sector. Although frequently m......more

This updated third edition of Studio Television Production and Directing introduces readers to the basic fundamentals of......more

This updated third edition of Studio Television Production and Directing introduces readers to the basic fundamentals of......more

Veteran NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a hands-......more

This book offers clear and detailed strategies for tackling every stage of the documentary editing process, from organiz......more

This book offers clear and detailed strategies for tackling every stage of the documentary editing process, from organiz......more

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leader......more

The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the smal......more

Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German ci......more

Kubrick and Control is an examination of authority, order, and independence in the films directed by Stanley Kubrick, as......more

This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier’s cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with ......more

This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American ......more

This brand new edition walks students through the full video production process, from inception of idea to final distrib......more

The rise of Iranian cinema to world prominence over the last few decades is one of the most fascinating cultural stories......more

William Friedkin is the director of genre-defining works such as The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), c......more

A queer auteur who plays with generic conventions, François Ozon is one of France’s most prolific and best known interna......more

Frederick Wiseman is America’s foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and lo......more

Frederick Wiseman is America’s foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and lo......more

The Moving Form of Film: Historicizing the Medium through Other Media charts the ways in which crossing borders between ......more

This book is a result of a ten-year follow-up to Telling Stories from Political Violence: A Filmmaker’s Journey (2012). ......more

Satyajit Ray belonged to a category of filmmakers and artists from newly independent countries whose work was used to de......more

This is a comprehensive bible to low-budget film producing for emerging and professional producers. Structured to guide ......more

In Race, Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation, Roberts undertakes the first full-length study of postcolonial, s......more

Winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Biography--Other Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his......more

Dive into the captivating world of indie filmmaking with Blake Ridder’s "How I Made 52 Films in 3 Years" - a candid, hum......more

The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decad......more

Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of f......more

This first comprehensive English collection of the interviews of Jacques Rivette (19282016) documents his career through......more

Shyam Benegal is widely perceived as one of the most influential Indian filmmakers, yet his voluminous body of work rema......more

In his forty-five-year career, William Wyler not only traversed the silent and the sound eras, but also connected classi......more

The volume examines several screen adaptations of works written by mid- and late nineteenth-century authors, who constit......more

"Walt Disney is an American hero. From Mickey Mouse to Disneyland, he changed the face of American culture. His is a suc......more

Jocelyne Saab was one of the most important female filmmakers pioneering a sense of international emancipatory world cin......more

Film is dead! Three little words that have been heard around the world many times over the life of the cinema. Yet, some......more

Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History takes us deep into the production world of the animation studio co-founded by Oscar......more

ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America’s most important ......more

Charlie Chaplin was a skilled comedian, filmmaker and composer, and the mission of this book is to educate readers on th......more

What relates the early films of Yorgos Lanthimos with Vasilis Kekatos’s 2019 Cannes triumph The Distance Between Us and ......more

Producer, distributor, and director Doris Wishman (1912-2002) was a pioneering woman in the film industry, leaving a bod......more

Rakhshan Banietemad is one of the first female film directors in Iran. This book, the first English language study of he......more

Named to Kirkus Review’s List of "Best Indie Books of 2023" "A documentarian revisits the funkiest musical byways in thi......more

Follow the life of Hollywood producer & director Robert Cawley, from starring in Our Gang comedies to prominent nightclu......more

Follow the life of Hollywood producer & director Robert Cawley, from starring in Our Gang comedies to prominent nightclu......more

Follow the life of Hollywood producer & director Robert Cawley, from starring in Our Gang comedies to prominent nightclu......more

Follow the life of Hollywood producer & director Robert Cawley, from starring in Our Gang comedies to prominent nightclu......more

Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years f......more

Despite an output of only 7 feature films in 20 years, Andrei Tarkovsky has had a profound influence on international ci......more

Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie’s gory disintegration to th......more

The films of John Hughes (1950-2009) have enjoyed popular and critical success alike, from his first scripts in the earl......more

John Thornton Caldwell’s landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industri......more

John Thornton Caldwell’s landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industri......more

This book examines the career and creative labour of production designer Polly Platt. It focuses mainly on her contribut......more

ReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay covers a variety of angles, using queer, feminist, historical, and close textual r......more

In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies ......more

In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies ......more