University of Illinois Press, 2011. - 132 pp.
Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich , and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to...
University of Illinois Press, 2011. — 122 p. Since the late 1980s, Hal Hartley has challenged standards of realist narrative cinema with daring narrative constructions, character development, and the creation of an unconventional visual world. In this pioneering critical overview of his work and its cultural-historical context, Mark L. Berrettini discusses seven of Hartley's...
University of California Press, 1978. — 154 p. This book provides an intimate and affectionate view of one of Hollywood's most admired directors. The fifty-year career of John Ford (1895-1973) included six Academy Awards, four New York Film Critics' Awards, and some of our most memorable films, among them The Informer (1934), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Quiet Man (1952),...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. — 414 p. Originally published by Simon & Schuster, 1993. In this groundbreaking biography of Ernst Lubitsch, undeniably one of the most important and influential film directors and artists of all time, critic and biographer Scott Eyman, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller John Wayne , examines not just the films...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. - 159 pp.
American director Philip Kaufman is hard to pin down: a visual stylist who is truly literate, a San Franciscan who often makes European films, he is an accessible storyteller with a sophisticated touch. Celebrated for his vigorous, sexy, and reflective cinema, Kaufman is best known for his masterpiece The Unbearable Lightness of...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. - 177 pp.
Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship. From his debut with the inventive independent narrative Slacker , the Austin-based director's divergent films have included the sci-fi noir A Scanner Darkly , the socially conscious Fast Food Nation , the kid-friendly The School of Rock , the teen...
Helsinki: Like Kustannus Oy, 2017. — 608 s. — ISBN 978-952-01-1685-9. Alkuteos: George Lucas. A Life. Kyse ei ollut droidin jääräpäisyydestä – piirteestä, joka hellytti miljoonat Tähtien sota -fanit kautta maailman. Kyse oli siitä, että kun Tähtien sodan ensimmäinen kuvauspäivä eli 22. maaliskuuta 1976 koitti tunisialaisella aavikolla, R2-D2 ei yksinkertaisesti toiminut. Sen...
Helsinki: Like Kustannus Oy, 2017. — 608 s. — ISBN 978-952-01-1685-9. Alkuteos: George Lucas. A Life. Kyse ei ollut droidin jääräpäisyydestä – piirteestä, joka hellytti miljoonat Tähtien sota -fanit kautta maailman. Kyse oli siitä, että kun Tähtien sodan ensimmäinen kuvauspäivä eli 22. maaliskuuta 1976 koitti tunisialaisella aavikolla, R2-D2 ei yksinkertaisesti toiminut. Sen...
University of California Press, 2005. - 337 pp.
James Ivory in Conversation is an exclusive series of interviews with a director known for the international scope of his filmmaking on several continents. Three-time Academy Award nominee for best director, responsible for such film classics as A Room with a View and The Remains of the Day , Ivory speaks with remarkable...
Random House, 2018. — 592 p. An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about a life lived in pursuit of his singular vision, and the many heartaches and...
University Press of Mississippi, 2001. - 838 pp.
John Ford's classic films - such as "Stagecoach", "The Grapes of Wrath", "How Green Was My Valley", "The Quiet Man", and "The Searchers" - have earned him worldwide admiration as America's foremost filmmaker, a director whose rich visual imagination conjures up indelible, deeply moving images of our collective past.
Joseph...
University of Illinois Press, 2008. - 125 pp.
For a director who has made only four feature films over three decades, Terrence Malick has sustained an extraordinary critical reputation as one of America’s most original and independent filmmakers. In this book, Lloyd Michaels analyzes each of Malick’s four features in depth, emphasizing both repetitive formal techniques such as...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. — 731 p. ISBN: 979-8-7651-0293-0 How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones? By interrogating this question, David Lynch's American Dreamscape broadens the interpretive horizons of Lynch's filmography, calling for a new approach to Lynch's films that goes beyond cinema and visual art...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. — 319 p. — ISBN 979-8-7651-0293-0. How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones? By interrogating this question, David Lynch's American Dreamscape broadens the interpretive horizons of Lynch's filmography, calling for a new approach to Lynch's films that goes beyond cinema and visual...
University Press of Kentucky, 2013. — 483 p. This book provides the first comprehensive study of William Wyler's major films. Despite his status as the most decorated American film director in history (including 3 Oscars and a record 12 Oscar nominations), Wyler is the only major director from American film's “classic period” whose work has never been subjected to rigorous...
I.B. Tauris, 2009. - 252 pp.
Drawing on new and previously neglected sources, this book is an expert and timely reassessment of Elia Kazan’s life in the cinema. The result is a fresh and memorable portrait of both the man and his work which highlights the remarkable and enduring contribution to American, and world, cinema of this ever fascinating, Oscar-winning director. Author...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. — 276 p. Cy Endfield (1914–1995) was a filmmaker (Try and Get Me!, Hell Drivers, Zulu) with interests in close-up magic, science, and invention. The director of several distinctive Hollywood movies, he was blacklisted and refused to "name names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Cy Endfield (1914–1995) was a filmmaker who was...
University of Illinois Press, 2012. - 190 pp.
A key figure in the ongoing legacy of modern cinema, David Lynch designs environments for spectators, transporting them to inner worlds built by mood, texture, and uneasy artifice. We enter these famously cinematic interiors to be wrapped in plastic, the fundamental substance of Lynch’s work. This volume revels in the weird dynamism...
Scarecrow Press, 2008. - 731 pp. For nearly 40 years, David Lynch's works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers. Lynch's films delve into the subjective consciousness of his characters to reveal both the depraved darkness and luminous spirituality of human nature. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature films like Eraserhead , The Elephant Man , Blue...
University of Illinois Press, 2004. - 207 pp.
With landmark films such as Fargo , O Brother Where art Thou? , Blood Simple , and Raising Arizona , the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the existence of a viable market for "small" films that are also intellectually rewarding, their work has exploded generic conventions amid rich webs of...
University Press of Kentucky, 2010. - 446 pp.
One of the most accomplished writers and directors of classic Hollywood, Billy Wilder (1906-2002) directed numerous acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and Some Like It Hot (1959). Featuring Gene D. Phillips's unique, in-depth...
Penguin, 2014. — 112 p. As a child his passions were comics and cars, but George Lucas grew up to be one of the most successful filmmakers of all time. He is a producer, screenwriter, director and entrepreneur whose company Lucasfilms pioneered the movie effects that changed the world of animation. He founded Industrial Light and Magic, which transformed special sound and...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. — 288 p. Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, Riskin's own unique contributions to film have been largely overshadowed. With five Academy Award nominations to his credit for the monumental films Lady for a Day , Mr. Deeds Goes to Town , You Can't Take It with...
University Press of Kentucky, 2011. - 307 pp.
Arthur Penn: American Director is the comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential filmmakers. Thematic chapters lucidly convey the story of Penn's life and career, as well as pertinent events in the history of American film, theater, and television. In the process of tracing the full spectrum of his...
Penguin, 2013. — 112 p. While other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop with home movies to amazing audiences around the world with epic blockbusters. He has directed four of the most successful films of all time and has won two Academy Awards for Best Director. From Jaws to...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. - 328 pp.
Francis Ford Coppola's career has spanned five decades, from low budget films he produced in the early 1960s to more personal films of recent years. Because of the tremendous popular success of The Godfather and the tremendous critical success of its sequel, Coppola is considered to be one of the best directors of all time.
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М.: АСТ, 2017. Культовая фигура и маргинал от киноиндустрии, выдающийся режиссер Дэвид Линч и его творчество с трудом поддаются определению. Порожденное подсознанием Линча, творчество это призвано воздействовать и на наше бессознательное, соединяя накаленные, противоречивые эмоции в нечто знакомое, но непонятное. Как и фильмы Линча, его жизнь уходит от простой категоризации: он —...
М.: АСТ, 2017. — 95 с. — ISBN 978-5-17-099903-3 Культовая фигура и маргинал от киноиндустрии, выдающийся режиссер Дэвид Линч и его творчество с трудом поддаются определению. Порожденное подсознанием Линча, творчество это призвано воздействовать и на наше бессознательное, соединяя накаленные, противоречивые эмоции в нечто знакомое, но непонятное. Как и фильмы Линча, его жизнь...
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