Biographies

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu Paperbackby Shiguéhiko Hasumi (Author), Ryan Cook PhD (Translator), Aaron Gerow (Introduction) – March 5, 2024First published in 1983, Shiguéhiko Hasumi's Directed by Yasujirō Ozu has become one of the most influential books on cinema written in Japanese....

Truffaut At Work Hardcover – Illustratedby Carole Le Berre (Author), Cahiers du Cinema (Contributor) - December 1, 2005François Truffaut (1932-1984), French motion-picture director and critic, is a leader of the nouvelle vague movement of film-makers who rejected the slick, impersonal style...

Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy Paperbackby Richard Ravalli (Editor) – May 14, 2024George Lucas is an innovative and talented director, producer, and screenwriter whose prolific career spans decades. While he is best known as the creative mind behind the Star Wars franchise,...

Spielberg: The First Ten Yearsby Laurent Bouzereau (Author) – October 24, 2023Explore the beginning of Steven Spielberg’s remarkable career with this definitive retrospective that covers Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1941, Raiders of the Lost...

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American Historyby Yunte Huang (Author) – August 22, 2023A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century...

Quentin by Tarantinoby Amazing Améziane (Author) – February 13, 2024Take a dive into the brain of master auteur, Quentin Tarantino, writer and director of multiple award-winning films such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.In this sensational graphic novel, Part of the...

Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge (Film and Culture Series)by Joseph McBride (Author) – October 26, 2021The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films―including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment―Billy Wilder earned...

Satyajit Ray on Cinema Paperback – Illustratedby Satyajit Ray (Author), Sandip Ray (Editor), Shyam Benegal (Foreword) - April 2, 2013Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema, was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who set...

Kubrick: An Odyssey Hardcoverby Robert P. Kolker (Author), Nathan Abrams (Author) – February 6, 2024The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker.The...

The Impossible David Lynch (Film and Culture Series)by Todd McGowan (Author) – February 13, 2007Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch's groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to...

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...

What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life Hardcoverby Billy Dee Williams (Author) – February 13, 2024Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made...

The Cinema of Wes Anderson: Bringing Nostalgia to Life (Directors' Cuts)by Whitney Crothers Dilley (Author) – August 8, 2017Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post-Baby Boom generation, making films such as Rushmore (1998) and The...

The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha (Directors' Cuts)by Ethan Warren (Author) – April 25, 2023Paul Thomas Anderson’s evolution from a brash, self-anointed “Indiewood” auteur to one of his generation’s most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable...

Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywoodby Eileen Whitfield (Author) - August 7, 1997"A knockout of a biography."―Newsweek A silent-film star. A woman who played children, wide-eyed and gamine, skipping about in frills and long curls. That's how most people remember Mary...

Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies Hardcoverby Christel Schmidt (Editor, Contributor) – Illustrated, November 1, 2012In the early days of cinema, when actors were unbilled and unmentioned in credits, audiences immediately noticed Mary Pickford. Moviegoers everywhere were riveted by her magnetic...

Lois Weber in Early Hollywood Paperbackby Shelley Stamp (Author) – May 1, 2015Among early Hollywood’s most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era’s “three great minds” alongside D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber...

J Is for Judy: Classic Hollywood's Leading Ladies from A to Z Hardcover – Picture Book, October 3, 2023by John Robert Allman (Author), Peter Emmerich (Illustrator)From Audrey Hepburn to Zsa Zsa Gabor, here is a star-studded alphabet book featuring the...

Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Workby Susan L. Mizruchi | Jun 23, 2014A groundbreaking work that reveals how Marlon Brando shaped his legacy in art and life.When people think about Marlon Brando, they think of the movie star, the...

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...