Directors

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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Paul Farley
Set in 'a world before Elvis, in a Liverpool before the Beatles', Terence Davies's film Distant Voices, Still Lives is an elegiac and intensely autobiographical meditation on a post-War working-class childhood. Paul Farley's study of the film is both a personal response, as a Liverpudlian and as a poet, and an exploration of Davies's unique visual style, blending the spaces - the 'short halls, stairways, coal cellars and meter cupboards of northern England' - and souls - the BBC shipping forecast, a pub sing-a-long, the strains of Vaughan Williams and Britten - of memory. Softcover, 95 pp. $19.95.

Brian De Palma
Interviews
Lawrence F. Knapp
Since the late 1960's Brian De Palma has established himself as one of the most protean, original, and controversial directors in contemporary cinema. In these interviews he emerges as a fascinating figure of excess and ambivalence, not afraid to share his opinions about censorship, violence, feminism, American culture, and the fate of cinema in the twenty-first century. Softcover, 197 pp. $29.95.

Claire Denis
Judith Mayne
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat. Judith Mayne's comprehensive study of these films traces Denis's career and discusses her major feature films in rich detail. Softcover, 167 pp. $23.00.

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Neal Gabler
From Neal Gabler, the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American entertainment and cultural history. Seven years in the making and meticulously researched - Gabler is the first writer to be given complete access to the Disney archives - this is the full story of a man whose work left an ineradicable brand on our culture but whose life has largely been enshrouded in myth. Walt Disney showed how one could impose one's will on the world. This is a masterly biography, a revelation of both the work and the man - of both remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Softcover, 851 pp. $26.00.

Walt Disney: Conversations
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Walt Disney: Conversations collects interviews and profiles of the man who created Mickey Mouse, developed a multinational creative corporation, and produced such full-length animated classics as Snow White, Cinderella, Fantasia, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, and Pinocchio. Bringing together over twenty pieces from the late 1920s to the late 1960s, this book reveals a complex visionary whose impact on animation, live-action film, television, and theme parks has never been equaled. Softcover, 143 pp. $28.95.

Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Darlene J. Sadlier
This is the first book in English to provide a full critical discussion of the films of Latin America's most important living director. A leader of the Cinema Novo movement, dos Santos is responsible for some of Brazil's most socially important and artistically engaging movies. His films are discussed in terms their stylistic evolution, as well as in regards to the director's political interests. Softcover, 180 pp. $27.95.

Image Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan
Monique Tschoffen & Jennifer Burwell Both academic and accessible, this collection of new interviews and essays is indispensable for the scholar, student, and fan of Atom Egoyan. In addition to illuminating the central arguments, tensions, and paradoxes of his work, Image Territory also situates Egoyan's work within larger intellectual and artistic currents to show how he takes up and answers critical debates in politics, philosophy, and aesthetics. Softcover, 417 pp. $29.95.

Atom Egoyan
Jonathan Romney
Complex, alluringly postmodern, rich and rigorous, the films of Canadian-Armenian director Atom Egoyan are among the most dazzling in world cinema. Blending detachment and compassion, they explore a host of themes. In this lucid monograph, Jonathan Romney illuminates the work of one of contemporary cinema's most provocative auteurs. Softcover, 229 pp. $26.95.

The Cinema of Eisenstein
David Bordwell
This is David Bordwell's essential analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein. Discussing each of the director's films in detail, Bordwell points out the traces of various artistic currents of the times, from Marxist modernism to Socialist Realism to Symbolist poetics, as well as the changing influence of Soviet politics; he also guides us through Eisenstein's theoretical writings. Comprehensive, authoritative, and illustrated with more than three hundred stills, The Cinema of Eisenstein deserves to be on the shelf of every serious student of film. Softcover, 316 pp. $34.95.

Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-Lines
Thomas Elsaesser
Haroun Farocki's vast oeuvre of over seventy titles includes feature films, internationally acclaimed essay films, critical media pieces, experimental work, children's features for television, film-historical film-essays, 'learning-films', and installation pieces. In this monograph, the first critical publication on Farocki in English, leading scholars from the US, France, and Germany assess his work from a wide range of critical perspectives, bringing to bear a variety of theoretical and political concerns as well as offering a wealth of biographical material. Softcover, 379 pp. $55.95.

Fassbinder: The Life and Work of a Provocative Genius
Christian Brand Thomsen
In his forty-four films (made in only fourteen years) Rainer Werner Fassbinder attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity, with stories of the desperate yearning for love and freedom in a non-permissive world. In Fassbinder, Christian Thomsen, a close friend of the director, brilliantly reflects the sexual, political, and overwhelmingly human contradictions inherent in the life of Fassbinder, this intensely creative man, and in the remarkable films he directed. Softcover, 358 pp. $37.95.

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Frederico Fellini as Auteur: Seven Aspects of His Films
John C. Stubbs
Frederico Fellini as Auteur offers a comprehensive auteurist study of the renowned Italian director. Film scholar John C. Stubbs dispenses with a traditional film-career review of the man and instead organizes his discussion of Fellini's films into seven categories. The volume focuses retrospectively on the key elements of the filmmaker's styl, the influence of Jung and dreams, the autobiograpical depiction of childhood and adolesence, the portrait of the artist, the filmmaker's working relationship with his wife, comic strategies, and his adaptation of the works of others. Softcover, 300 pp. $57.95.

Federico Fellini: His Life and Work
Tullio Keizich
In 1963, with the release of the revolutionary 8 1/2, Federico Fellini put his deepest desires and anxieties before the lens, permanently impacting the art of cinema in the process. Now, more than forty years later, film critic and Fellini confidant Tullio Kezich has written the work against which all other biographies of the influential filmmaker are sure to be measured. In this moving and intimately revealing account of a lifetime spent in pictures, Kezich utilizes his friendship with Fellini to step outside the frame of myth and anecdote that surrounds him -- much of which, as Kezich reveals, is of the director's own making. Hardcover, 444 pp. $47.25.

I'm A Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon
Damian Pettigrew
Based on a series of candid interviews with Fellini conducted in 1992, the year before his death, I'm A Born Liar offers an alluring look into the wildly inventive and stunningly original world of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Illustrated cover-to-cover with a plethora of brilliant photographs from the films and from behind-the-scenes. Hardcover, 176 pp. $55.00.

Federico Fellini: The Complete Films
Chris Wiegand
This beautiful book from Taschen is a visual tribute to the cinema of Federico Fellini. Colour and black & white photos throughout. Softcover, 192 pp. $29.99.

The Films of Federico Fellini
Peter Bondanella
Through an examination of 5 of Fellini's masterpieces -- La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Amarcord, and Intervista -- The Films of Federico Fellini offers a strong critical perspective on the famed Italian director's career. Rejecting an overtly ideological approach to Fellini's cinema, Peter Bondanella emphasizes the director's interest in fantasy, the irrational, and individualism. Softcover, 205 pp. $34.95.

Fellini Lexicon
Sam Rohdie
Fellini Lexicon explores the forms and substances, significances and insignificances, objects and shadows in Fellini's work. The entries are reversible, overlapping, often unlikely, combining careful analysis of the films with a celebration of their richness. An original, delightful approach to Fellini's work and to the practice of film criticism. Softcover, 159 pp. $32.95.

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In The Dark
Mike Figgis
Mulit-media artist, Mike Figgis, has created an extensive list of projects, including 7 feature films. In this book, he shows the potential for revolution through stunning multi-textured images taken from his experimental digital work. Alongside extracts from his notebooks, scripts and other documents relating to his development of these new techniques are comments on the possibilites that they open up for the future. Softcover, 208 pp. $65.00.

Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher
James Swallow
One of the most controversial and dynamic filmmakers of recent years, David Fincher has earned critical respect and cult stardom for his challenging, hard-edged and uncompromising movies. This intelligent survey, examines each of the director's feature films in detail, with individual chapters covering Alien 3, Seven, The Game, Fight Club, and Panic Room. Softcover, 208 pp. $39.95.

John Ford and the American West
Peter Cowie
This beautifully designed hardcover volume provides a lucid overview of John Ford's filmography, with special emphasis on the genre that he helped create: the western. Respected film historian Peter Cowie shows how Ford filtered the history of the American West and influences from the visual arts through his own sensibility to create his remarkable body of work. Hardcover, 224 pp. $67.50.

Searching for John Ford
Joseph McBride
Joseph McBride's Searching For John Ford surpasses all previous biographies of the filmmaker in its depth, originality, and insight. Blending lively and penetrating analyses of his films with an impeccably documented narrative of the historical and psychological contexts in which those films were created, McBride has at long last given John Ford the biography his stature demands. Softcover, 838 pp. $33.95.

Print the Legend
Scott Eyman
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. "The line from Who Shot Liberty Valance could serve as the epigram for the life of legendary filmmaker John Ford. A definitive view of the life and work of one of America's true cinematic giants. Illustrated. Hardcover, $59.00; Paperback, $37.95.

William Friedkin
Films of Aberration, Obsession and Reality
Thomas D. Clagett
The films of William Friedkin have won Acadamy Awards, been found deeply offensive, set box-office records, been subject to intense censorship, and (by some accounts) inflicted psychological harm. In this expanded and updated second edition, Thomas D. Clagett writes the definitive critical account of the intense, controversial, and always challenging films of "Wild Bill" Friedkin. Softcover, 457 pp. $31.95.


A Third Face
My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking
Samuel Fuller
Hitchhiker, news reporter, infrantryman, and film director are just some of the titles that Samuel Fuller has held during his wildly eventful life and career. In this posthumously published autobiography, Fuller narrates with typical gusto about everything from his humble childhood in New York, to his controversial film career in Hollywood. Provacative, insightful, and entertaining. A must for anyone interested in movies. Hardcover, 592 pp., $53.00

Like Mangoes In July:
The Work of Richard Fung
edited by Helen Lee & Kerri Sakamoto
Over the past few years, Richard Fung's work has put him at the forefront of innovative new Canadian filmmakers. This enticing and stimulating book provides an essential overview of Fung's pioneering work in contemporary film and video. Softcover, $19.95.

Jean-Luc Godard
Douglas Morrey
This volume offers a new interpretation of one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema. It is the first book to cover the whole of Godard's career, from the early successes of the French New Wave, through the political works of the late 1960s and 1970s and the difficult films of the 1980s, to the recent triumphs of Histoire(s) du cinema and Eloge de l'amour. The book will be useful to all students of Godard's films, and of interest to scholars of modern and contemporary French cinema, culture and thought. Softcover, 271 pp. $32.95.

Terry Gilliam: Interviews
David Sterritt & Lucille Rhodes
This collection of interviews with the filmmaker, animator, artist, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe covers the phases of his career from his early work as a cartoonist and animator through to his recent and most difficult film projects. Softcover, 227 pp. $28.95.


Jean-Luc Godard
Douglas Morrey
This volume offers a new interpretation of one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema. It is the first book to cover the whole of Godard's career, from the early successes of the French New Wave, through the political works of the late 1960s and 1970s and the difficult films of the 1980s, to the recent triumphs of Histoire(s) du cinema and Eloge de l'amour. The book will be useful to all students of Godard's films, and of interest to scholars of modern and contemporary French cinema, culture and thought. Softcover, 271 pp. $32.95.

Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy
Colin MacCabe
Prolific, daring, and highly influencial, Jean-Luc Godard is one of the giants of European cinema. In this first-ever biography of the director, Colin MacCabe has written a thrilling account of Godard's life and filmography, his role in the transformation of French cinema, and the effect of the Nouvelle Vague on the cinema of today. Hardcover, 432 pp. $40.50.

Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company
John Kenneth Muir
Christopher Guest is the master of the "mockumentary," a genre which he has popularized -- long before the advent of "reality tv" -- in films such as Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind. This book, the first to focus on the talented filmmaker, summarizes his films, discusses his unique filmmaking style, and pays tribute to his talented repertory company. Softcover, 244 pp. $27.95.

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Last modified July 15, 2003 .
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