Biographies

The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Hardcover – October 6, 2022 by Bruce Davis (Author) The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy Awards....

Nora Ephron at the Movies: A Visual Celebration of the Writer and Director Behind When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and More Hardcover – October 29, 2024 by Ilana Kaplan (Author), Jason Diamond (Foreword) The first...

Sofia Coppola: Forever Young Hardcover – May 17, 2022 by Hannah Strong (Author), Little White Lies (Illustrator) Hannah Strong’s Sofia Coppola: Forever Young is an illustrated critical survey of the Academy Award–winning writer and director’s career, covering everything from her...

The Third Life of Agnès Varda Hardcover – May 30, 2023 by Agnes Varda (Editor), Dominique Bluher (Editor), Julia Fabry (Editor), Philippe Piguet (Interviewer) On the iconic filmmaker's final phase as an acclaimed creator of genre-bending installations. Agnès Varda (1928–2019)...

The Cinema of the Coen Brothers: Hard-Boiled Entertainments (Directors' Cuts)by Jeffrey Adams (Author) – July 14, 2015The films of the Coen brothers have become a contemporary cultural phenomenon. Highly acclaimed and commercially successful, over the years their movies have attracted increasingly...

Meet Audrey Hepburn as you've never seen her before in Little Audrey's Daydream: The Life of Audrey Hepburn, an empowering children's book by her son and daughter-in-law, Sean and Karin Hepburn Ferrer.Little Audrey's Daydream tells the story of Audrey Hepburn's...

Out of the Shadows: How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie Hardcover – Picture Book, February 8, 2022 by Fiona Robinson (Author) Out of the Shadows is an innovative picture book biography about an unsung hero of early...

John Singleton: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) Paperback – Illustrated, January 5, 2009 by Craigh Barboza (Editor) John Singleton (1968-2019) rocketed from obscurity to the top ranks of Hollywood directors in 1991, when he released his debut film Boyz N...

Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director's Chair Hardcover – December 10, 2024 by Alexandra Seros (Author) An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to...

The Life of - La Vida De Selena (English and Spanish Edition) Board book – Picture Book, March 13, 2018Spanish Edition by Patty Rodriguez (Author), Ariana Stein (Author), Citlali Reyes (Illustrator)A Lil' Libros Bilingual BiographySelena’s career started at a young...

Meet Alice Guy-Blaché. She made movies—some of the very first movies, and some of the most exciting! Blow up a pirate ship? Why not? Crawl into a tiger's cage? Of course! Leap off a bridge onto a real speeding train?...

On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative philosophers, and so it is...

All about Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema – Illustratedby Brad Epps (Editor), Despina Kakoudaki (Editor) - May 21, 2009One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and above all entertaining audiences around the globe since...

Transgender Cinema (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture) Paperback – March 1, 2019 by Rebecca Bell-Metereau (Author) 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title​. Transgender Cinema gives readers the big picture of how trans people have been depicted on screen. Beginning with...

ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven (ReFocus: The American Directors Series) 1st Editionby Calum Waddell (Editor)This edited collection provides an insightful look at the career and output of American horror director Wes Craven, whose most famous films – such as...