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Contains photographs and information about some of the horror films produced by Universal Studios between the 1920s and ......more

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycol......more

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

Directing the Decades is an examination of the development of theatre in the UK since the revolution of the 1950s until ......more

Directing the Decades is an examination of the development of theatre in the UK since the revolution of the 1950s until ......more

The first in-depth analysis of Maren Ade’s acclaimed contemporary classic, a generational tug-of-war about the meaning o......more

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A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki For over f......more

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By presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre’s important critical role in a post-pol......more

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

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

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Taking at its starting point the idea that Kubrick’s cinema has constituted an intellectual, cerebral, and philosophical......more

The Cinema of the Precariatis the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class sufferin......more

Showcases cutting-edge work by renowned researchers of classical Hollywood filmmaking. More than a century after its eme......more

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There is something weird and eerie going on in the oneiric Iranian ghost-town Bad City. A mysterious female vampire, cla......more

Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspea......more

Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter is the first book in 15 years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders’s extens......more

Edward Dmytryk was one of the so-called "Hollywood Ten" jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before t......more

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Among the most innovative and influential filmmakers of the twentieth century, Alain Resnais (1922-2014) did not origina......more

The year 1955 was a watershed one for New York’s film industry: Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront took home eight Oscars, a......more

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Carl Theodor Dreyer was a visionary director whose films were based less on his screenplays than on his preconceptions, ......more

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning film director and Slamdance Film Festival co-founder Dan Mirvish giv......more

Visit the realms of The Twilight Zone, journey to The Outer Limits and boldly go on a Star Trek! Read how motion picture......more

Jia Zhangke is praised as "the most internationally prominent and celebrated figure of the Six-Generation of Chinese fil......more

Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique t......more

Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique t......more

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This book is devoted to the critical study of the cinema of John Milius, filling a major gap in the literature by combin......more

Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard’s films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-n......more

Charles Crichton, director of A Fish Called Wanda and several much-loved Ealing comedies, had one of the most remarkable......more

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Richard Linklater’s celebrated Before trilogy chronicles the love of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) who fi......more

Richard Linklater’s celebrated Before trilogy chronicles the love of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) who fi......more

Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek has made his name elaborating the compl......more

In the last 40 years, actor, director and former effects artist William Butler has easily lived three lifetimes. From hi......more

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

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

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

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Collaborating with actors is, for many filmmakers, the last frontier--the scariest part and the part they long for--the ......more

*Combines perspectives from production studies, media industry studies and studies of television drama with perspectives......more

This book examines Shyam Benegal’s films and alternative image(s) of India in his cinema, and traces the trajectory of c......more

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Silent-era film scholarship has all too often focused on a handful of German directors, including Fritz Lang, F. W. Murn......more

Tim Burton is an internationally celebrated director, critically acclaimed for his fantasy horror films and the macabre ......more

Bringing together a range of international scholars, European Film Remakes discusses for the first time the textual, soc......more