Directors

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Guy Maddin: Interviews
D.K. Holm
Possessing a deep knowledge of silent cinema, modernist artists, and novelists, Maddin's seemingly amateurish visual style and unusual subjects obscure the surprisingly literate sources of his films. In these conversations, he comes across as charming, erudite, and candid as he discusses his own perceived drawbacks, his good fortune, and the often high art culture that motivates his cinematic explorations. Softcove, 209 pp. $27.95.

Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin
William Beard
This close reading of Guy Maddin's narrative and aesthetic strategies, themes, influences, and underlying issues also examines the orgins and production history of each film. The author's fascinating interpretations reveal, among other things, the ways in which Maddin's art is founded in the past -- both in the cultural past, and in his personal memory. Softcover, 471 pp. $37.95.

From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings
Guy Maddin
From the pen of Canada's most enchanting and eccentric filmmaker comes this collection of Guy Maddin's journalism, film treatments, and a bountiful selection from the director's never-before-seen personal journals. Coupled with candid photos and unpublished storyboards, what emerges is both a treasure trove and a fragrant potpourri, redolent of the dankest corners of the movie house. Softcover, 235 pp. $24.95.

The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America
Hannah Patterson
Terrence Malick is one of Hollywood's most enigmatic and legendary filmmakers. Despite his limited output, and a famous twenty-year absence from cinema, Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line have redefined the essence of contemporary film language. This wholly revised second edition includes three new chapters on Malick's latest film, The New World, which further elucidates upon his unique and under-explored filmmaking style and provide additional testament to the significance of this truly original director. Softcover, 231 pp. $29.99.

Anthony Mann
Jeanine Basinger
Director of such often revived films as Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story, and El Cid, Anthony Mann enjoyed a lasting and important career as one of Hollywood's premier filmmakers. Jeanine Basinger's study puts his visual style at the centre of its analysis, offering an expanded edition of the original text, with more than fifty rare film stills. Softcover, 214 pp. $31.95.

Michael Mann
The Pocket Essential
Mark Steensland
In this, the first book-length study of this unique visual artist, you'll find out what makes a Michael Mann film and why his movies have been constantly reassessed and found to be ahead of their time. Includes a complete filmography, with detailed examinations of each of his films and tv projects. Softcover, 96 pp. $11.95.

Chris Marker: Memories of the Future
Catherine Lupton
Chris Marker is one of the most extraordinary and influencial filmmakers of our time. In landmark works such as Letters from Siberia, La Jetee, and Sans Soleil, he overturned the conventions of the cinema, confounding normal distinctions between documentary and fiction, private and public concerns, writing and visual recording, and the still and moving image. This fascinating monograph offers a comprehensive analysis and overview of this modern master's prolific and multi-faceted career. Softcover, 256 pp. $35.00.

Jean-Pierre Melville
An American in Paris
Ginette Vincendeau
One of the world's leading writer's on French cinema, Ginette Vincendeau has here provided a comprehensive critical account of Melville -- the first in English -- that reveals him to be not only a fashionable cult director but one of the few true masters of cinema. Softcover, 278 pp. $29.95.

My Passage from India
Ishmail Merchant
In this wonderful book, Ishmail Merchant tells the inspiring story of his life and career, from his modest childhood in India to his eventual triumph at the Acadamy Awards. Internationally celebrated for his cinematic collaborations with James Ivory -- A Room With A View, Howards End, and Remains of the Day to name a few -- Merchant here proves himself a very worthy writer as he recollects a sumptuous feast of stories, sights, sounds, and larger-than-life characters that have been part of his remarkable life. Hardcover, 149 pp. $51.00.

The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood
The View from the Bridge is writer-director Nicholas Meyer's drolly entertaining account of his involvement with the most highly regarded and beloved of the Star Trek films -- and of his own gaining of wisdom in the fractious politics of Hollywood. Hardcover, 263 pp. $32.50.

Big Bosoms and Square Jaws
The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film
Jimmy McDonough
In this candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic maverick, Jimmy McDonough provides a warts-and-all portrait of Russ Meyer, the director, writer, producer, and commando moviemaking force behind such sexploitation classics as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Vixen, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Rich with wicked and sometimes shocking observations and recollections from Meyer's friends, colleagues, leading ladies, and lovers, Big Bosoms and Square Jaws is an entertaining and illuminating look at one of cinema's most controversial auteurs. Softcover, 463 pp. $21.00.

Lips Hips Tits Power: The Films of Russ Meyer
Doyle Greene
Russ Meyer is the breast-fixated filmmaker who started as a nude pin-up photographer and eventually became one of the most provocative (provoking love and hate, in equal parts) cult filmmakers of all time. Lips Hips Tits Power examines Meyer's entire cinematic oeuvre in detail, affording it the serious analysis it warrants. Softcover, 232 pp. $26.95.

With a Crooked Stick: The Films of Oscar Micheaux
J. Ronald Green
In With a Crooked Stick: The Films of Oscar Micheaux, J. Ronald Green presents a fascinating study of Micheaux's cinematic accomplishments through detailed critical analyses of each of his extant films. More than simply a film guide, this book also illuminates the life, career, and business practices of this pioneer of early cinema. Softcover, 314 pp. $41.95.

Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike
Tom Mes
With a filmography totaling 50 films in 11 years, Takashi Miike is arguably the most prolific of contemporary film director. His work ethic aside, he has gained renown for his dazzling visual style, brilliant narrative invention and a willingness to go far beyond the boundaries. Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike is a brilliantly illustrated examination of all of the director's ground-breaking films. Softcover, 405 pp. $44.75.

The Great and Only Oscar Micheaux: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Patrick McGilligan
Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D.W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented and complex characters in the history of American entertainment. Hardcover, 402 pp. $37.95.

A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli
Mark Griffin
He was the acclaimed director of such cinematic classics as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, and Gigi, and equally well known for his tumultuous marriage to the legendary Judy Garland. But to say that Vincente Minnelli's conflicted personal life informed his films would be an understatement. As Mark Griffin persuasively demonstrates in this definitive biography of the Academy Award-winning director, Minnelli was not only building a remarkable Hollywood legacy, but also creating an intriguing autobiography in code. Softcover, 346 pp. $20.00.

Minghella on Minghella
Timothy Bricknell
Anthony Minghella grew up above his Italian parents' cafe on the Isle of Wight. He studied and then taught at the University of Hull, where he began to write. His prize-winning plays appeared in the theatre, on radio and television. His debut feature film, which he wrote and directed, Truly, Madly, Deeply, was a huge surprise hit with audiences everywhere, and each of his subsequent pictures has seen him grow in ambition, stature and acclaim, from the epic scope of The English Patient to the lustre of The Talented Mr Ripley and, most recently, his monumental adaptation of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. In his own words, here is Anthony Minghella's story. Softcover, 178 pp. $29.00.

Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer
Emmanuel Levy
Beginning his career as an innovative set and costume designer in New York, Vincente Minnelli would go on to become MGM's highest-paid filmmaker. However, even as the director of such classics as Meet Me in St. Louis, Gigi, and An American in Paris, his professional accomplishments could not eclipse a fascinating personal life, which included marrying Judy Garland and fathering Liza Minnelli. This is the first full-length biography of one of Hollywood's most legendary and influencial directors, encompassing his life, his career, and his art. Hardcover, 448 pp. $41.95.

Citizen Moore
Roger Rapaport
His fearless satirical assaults on formidable targets like General Motors, the National Rifle Association, HMOs and George W. Bush's White House have made Michael Moore the big bopper of American journalism. Based on interviews with more than 200 insiders, this biography traces the untold story of the 30 years of struggles and failures that led to the success of this iconoclastic director. Softcover, 302 pp. $18.95.

Michael Moore
Emily Schultz
Love him or hate him, you can't ignore Michael Moore. Left and right can both agree that this son of GM workers has single-handedly revitalized liberal politics, and turned his unique style of political filmmaking into an expectation-defying brand. Michael Moore: A Biography is the first book to tell Moore's life story -- from his early days as a local muckraker in Flint, to his professional successes with Roger & Me, TV Nation, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11 and his best-selling books. Hardcover, 245 pp. $29.95.

The World According to Michael Moore
Ken Lawrence
Michael Moore is this generation's most renowned satirist. As a filmmaker and author, he has been tireless in his attempts to expose social and political injustices. This unauthorized portrait collects his wittiest and most astute observations, culled from interviews and speeches. Softcover, 138 pp. $14.95.


The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries
Ewa Mazierska & Laura Rascaroli
Interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, The Cinema of Nanni Moretti provides an analysis and interpretation of the work of the most important Italian filmmaker of the past thirty years and one of the outstanding figures in contemporary European cinema. In using his films as a lens to view and discuss contemporary phenomena such as the crisis of the Left and the transformation of the citizen's relationship to the state, the book offers in-depth studies of all the director's works to date. Softcover, 178 pp. $29.99.

Dudley Murphy: Hollywood Wild Card
Susan Delson
In the first full-length biography of Murphy, author Susan Delson gives full rein to an American original whose life was as audacious as his films. As expertly chronicled here, Murphy caromed between Hollywood and other cultural capitals - Greenwich Village, Harlem, London, and Paris - hobnobbing with some of the era's leading cultural figures, including Ezra Pound, Man Ray, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Chaplin, and leaving many a scandal in his wake. A lively portrait, Dudley Murphy, Hollywood Wild Card provides a fascinating perspective on the evolution of the classical Hollywood aesthetic, the development of the film industry, and the century's broader cultural currents. Hardcover, 251 pp. $36.95.

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Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and his Culture
Steve Gravestock
Don Owen occupies a central place in the development of English-Canadian cinema almost entirely on the basis of his debut feature, Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964). Although this film would go on to pave the way for the Canadian feature film industry, as well as to gain international accolades, Owen remains curiously under-examined in film studies. This monograph, published to coincide with a major retrospective of Owen's work, fills this gap in cinema scholarship by offering a sparkling overview of Owen's complete filmography. Softcover, 152 pp. $14.95.

Alan J. Pakula: His Films and His Life
Jared Brown
From his early work as a producer for several Broadway stage productions to his early years in Hollywood and his eventual rise to the peak of his profession, Alan J. Pakula's career is meticulously chronicled in this thorough critical biography. Hardcover, 416 pp. $39.95.

Will Write and Direct For Food
Alan Parker
In this book, Alan Parker, the scourge of pretension, director and screenwriter takes on the filmmaking industry through his witty cartoons. No one gets away: Hollywood, the British Film Industry, critics, actors, directors, writers, audiences and financiers can all be seen pinned and wriggling on his wickedly sharp nib. Softcover, 222 pp. $24.95.

In Danger: A Pasolini Reader
Jack Hirschman
This is the first anthology in English devoted to Pasolini's political and literary essays, including a generous selection of his poetry, as well as his final interview, amazingly conducted just hours before he was murdered in 1975. In writings that span three decades, Pasolini offers commentaries on Italian politics, as well as European and American literary figures. For those interested in his films, this book offers much insight into his unique brand of cinema. Softcover, 242 pp. $20.50.


P.P.P. - Pasolini and Death
Bernhart Schwenk & Michael Semff
Published in commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of Pasolini's death, this book provides insight into his moral concepts and ideals through his essays, films, drawings, and paintings. Among the book's many explorations is that, inherent in Pasolini's understanding of art and his world view, was the notion of violent death, which, ultimately he may have consciously sought out in order to reconcile his life and work. This book is beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white. Hardcover, 208 pp. $54.00.

Sam Peckinpah: Interviews
Kevin J. Hayes
Sam Peckinpah: Interviews features the combustible director discussing his best-known films, including the gory western The Wild Bunch, the unsettling and controversial Straw Dogs, and the crime thriller The Getaway. In these conversations, Peckinpah's candor -- about himself, filmmaking, studios, male/female relations, violence, and contemporary politics -- provides a thoughtful portrait of a polarizing filmmaker. Softcover, 179 pp. $27.95.

Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah
Marshall Fine
At once lauded and vilified, Sam Peckinpah remains a director of much influence due to his unique brand of stylized, naturalistic violence in such classic films as The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, and Convoy. In Bloody Sam Marshall Fine takes an in-depth look at legendary film director's tumultuous life, both on and off the set. Softcover, 426 pp. $22.95.

"If They Move...Kill 'Em!"
David Weddle
The first major biography of Sam Peckinpah, this fascinating account does critical justice to an important body of cinema as it spins a tale of Peckinpah's dramatic, overcharged life and the turbulent times in which he moved. Illustrated. Hardcover, $45.00; Paperback, $27.95.

Arthur Penn: American Director
Nat Segaloff
A winning portrait of the astoundingly prolific and gifted director of The Miracle Worker, Golden Boy, Bonnie and Clyde, Little Big Man, and countless other masterpieces of film, theatre and television. Hardcover, 310 pp. $49.95.

Arthur Penn Interviews
Michael Chaiken & Paul Cronin
This is the first collection to explore every stage of Arthur Penn's career. These conversations span forty-four years, from his first in-depth discussion with Cahiers du Cinema in 1963 to a new interview from 2007, and reveal Penn's ever-changing ideas on the nature of film and filmmaking. This volume also presents newly translated interviews from European film periodicals, published in English for the first time. Softcover, 219 pp. $27.95.

Roman Polanski: The Cinema of a Cultural Traveller|
Ewa Mazierska
Covering all of Roman Polanski's films as director, Ewa Mazierska addresses the eclecticism, ambiguity and paradoxes of his cinema, while seeking out the common elements in his films. From a number of perspectives, she examines the autobiographical effect of Polanski's films in terms of violence, travel and voyeurism. Softcover, 230 pp. $31.95.

Polanski
Christopher Sandford
Others have told pieces of his story -- the personal tragedies and the professional triumphs -- but Christopher Sandford brings all the elements of famed filmmaker Roman Polanski's tumultuous life together into one gripping account. Drawing on dozens of interviews with actors, writers and other Polanski collaborators, this biography is a fascinating portrait of a flawed yet wildy creative master of the cinema. Softcover, 480 pp. $24.95.

Roman Polanski
James Morrison
James Morrison's Roman Polanski offers one of the most comprehensive and critically engaged treatments ever written on Polanski's work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to the present, the book provides commentary on all his major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. By locating Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, Morrison argues that this eclectic and controversial director is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete - what is out in the open - and in why it is so rarely seen. Softcover, 191 pp. $25.50.

The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World
John Orr & Elzbieta Ostrowska
Roman Polanski is one of the great maverick figures of world cinema, with a long career starting in Poland with his short films of the 1950s and running through to the present with Oliver Twist. His personal life has been controversial and often tragic. Yet notoriety of celebrity has made us overlook the true importance of his films in cinema history. This collection is a critical re-assessment of that role, long overdue. It high-lights the bold and dazzling diversity of his work as well as recurrent themes and obsessions that have had such a powerful impact upon audiences throughout the world. Softcover, 175 pp. $32.99.

Roman Polanski
F.X. Feeney
Illustrated throughout, with colour and black & white photographs, this beautiful book is a chronological survey of Roman Polanski's career as a filmmaker. Softcover, 192 pp. $26.99.

The Cinema of Michael Powell
International Perspectives on an English Film-maker
Ian Christie & Andrew Moor
The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. In this first-ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of scholars explore his film-making landscape, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating these to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance. Softcover, 295 pp. $35.95.

The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger
Chris Fujiwara
Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer-directors. He sought to address the major social, political, and historical questions of his time in films designed to appeal to a wide public. Chris Fujiwara's critical biography -- a detailed new look at the director's life and legacy --follows Preminger throughout his varied career, penetrating his carefully constructed public persona and revealing the many layers of his work. Hardcover, 480 pp. $38.50.

Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would be King 
Foster Hirsch
 The creator of some of the most enduring pictures in film history, "Otto the Terrible," as he was called, receives this first full-scale biography portraying a complex, paradoxical but wholly fascinating figure. Hirsch shows Preminger battling studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, defying the notorious Production Code, leading the industry in the employment of black actors in the '50's and breaking the Hollywood blacklist by crediting the screenplay of Exodus to Dalton Trumbo. The range of his work was remarkable as Foster shows us through this thoroughly researched and deftly written portrait. Hardcover. $44.00. Coming in November.


Vsevolod Pudovkin: Selected Essays
Richard Taylor
Since their initials printings in the 1930s, the seminal writings of Vsevolod Pudovkin have been unavailable to the English-speaking reader. This volume of new translations of his most important writings from 1926 to 1952 enable us to trace the development of his ideas through his career. This book will fill an important gap in the literature on Soviet cinema and will re-establish Pudovkin's claim to a place in the canon. Softcover, 324 pp. $61.00.

The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi
John Kenneth Muir
In 1982, when he was 23, Sam Raimi burst onto the film scene with the low -budget cult-classic The Evil Dead. Included in this volume are thirty first-person accounts and interviews from a variety of eclectic sources; from the cinematographers who shot Raimi's early flims to the producers, screenwriters, actors, special effects magicians and composers who collaborated to make his films the stuff of legend. Softcover, 342 pp. $27.95.

Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director
Patrick McGilligan
An eye opening biography of the mastermind behind Rebel Without A Cause. Hardcover, 542 pp. $32.99.

The Films of Nicholas Ray
Geoff Andrew
Nicholas Ray -- director of In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, They Live By Night and, Rebel Without a Cause -- is one of the most revered of all American maverick auteurs. This new edition of Geoff Andrew's unique and acclaimed study of his films discusses Ray's stylistic artistry and abiding thematic concerns. Softcover, 193 pp. $32.95.

Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray
Keya Ganguly
Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is often described in narrowly nationalistic terms and rarely as an influential modernist whose contributions to world cinema remain unsurpassed. In this benchmark study, Keya Ganguly situates Ray's work within the internationalist spirit of the twentieth century, arguing that his film experiments intimate the sense of a radical future and document the capacity of the image to conceptualize a different world glimpsed in the remnants of a disappearing past. Softcover, 258 pp. $29.95.

Satyajit Ray: Interviews
Bert Cardullo
India's pre-eminent film director, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) came to public attention in 1955 with Pather Pachali, the first installment of what became known as the Apu Trilogy. It was the motion picture that introduced Indian cinema to the West. Satyajit Ray: Interviews reveals a genial, generous, unpretentious, immensely knowledgeable man who, for all his fame, remained to the end amusedly indefferent to movie-world glamour. Softcover, 226 pp. $25.50.

My Anecdotal Life
A Memoir
Carl Reiner
In this funny and engaging memoir, one of the best raconteurs on the planet, Carl Reiner, recalls his life in show business in short comic takes. Mary Tyler Moore, Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Johnny Carson, Ann Bancroft, and dozens of other entertainment personalities populate this "literary variety show" that captures the highs and lows of Reiner's prolific career. Hardcover 236 pp. $36.95.

Jean Renoir: Interviews
Bert Cardillo
Like his cinematic oeuvre, Jean Renoir: Interviews spans several decades. As a whole, the interviews, some in English for the first time, disclose a candid, cultivated, and unselfish man, genuinely but also slyly self-critical, and at all times a warm and pleasant conversationalist. These conversations show his ideas evolving and ripening along with the movies he was making. Softcover, 217 pp. $28.95.

Leni Reifenstahl: A Life
Jurgen Trimborn
Dancer, actress, mountaineer, and director Leni Riefenstahl's uncomprising will and audacious talent for self-promotion appeared unmatched - until 1932, when she introduced herself to her future protector and patron: Adolf Hitler. Jurgen Trimborn's revelatory biography casts an unblinking eye on one of the more complicated figures of the twnetieth century. Softcover, 348 pp. $18.95.

Leni : The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
Steven Bach
Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best know as "Hitler's filmmaker," is one of the most fascinating and controversial women of the twentieth century. In this masterful new biography, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind this gifted woman's lifelong self-vindification as an apolitical artist who claimed she knew nothing of the Holocaust. What emerges is the story of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity. Softcover, 386 pp. $20.00.

Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Genius
Rainer Rother
Although Leni Riefenstahl is admired the world over as a master filmmaker, her achievements have been clouded by the fact that she operated within the context of Nazi Germany and was inextricably linked with the Third Reich. This powerful translation of Rother Rainer's acclaimed biography focuses on the tension between political agenda and aesthetic beauty which pervades Riefenstahl's work. Hardcover, 262 pp. $49.50.

Martin Ritt: Interviews
Gabriel Miller
This collection of interviews provides a revealing self-portrait of Martin Ritt (1914-1990), America's preeminent maker of social-conscience films and one of the most sensitive film portraitists of the rural South. Softcover, 213 pp. $29.95.

Smoking In Bed: Conversations With Bruce Robinson
edited by Alistair Owen
The director of the cult classic Withnail & I and award winning writer of The Killing Fields reveals his thirty year addiction to turning fact into fiction in this new collection of interviews. The fascinating result is an explanation of how to get behind the camera and in front of the typewriter and stay there. Hardcover, $29.95; softcover, $18.50.

George A. Romero: The Pocket Essential
Tom Fallows & Curtis Owen
Not simply a director of zombie films, George Romero reinvented the vampire in Martin, took on the American military in The Crazies and has collaborated with horror legend Stephen King on both Creepshow and The Dark Half. This essential guide examines Romero's work up to and including Diary of the Dead, and explains why filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese often refer to him as horror's greatest living director. Softcover, 160 pp. $9.95.

The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead
Tony Williams
The Cinema of George A. Romero is first the in-depth study, in English, of the career of this foremost auteur working at the margins of the Hollywood mainstream. Placing Romero's oeuvre in the context of literary naturalism, the book explores the relevance of the director's films within American cultural traditions and thus reclaims his work from the typical 'splatter movie' characterization. Softcover, 214 pp. $29.99.

Miracles & Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood
William Bruce Johnson
Miracles and Sacrilege is a major contribution to legal and film studies. Drawing upon his extensive familiarity with legal theory, history, and practice, William Bruce Johnson examines the famed controversy over Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle in light of the history of censorship, changing definitions of free speech, Hollywood censorship codes, and the clash between Irish Catholic and liberal interest groups. Johnson's dramatic and eloquent book will interest students of history, film, law, religion, ethnicity, and twentieth-century American culture as a whole. Softcover, 516 pp. $35.00.

In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirit
Remembering Roberto Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini would have been 100 years old in Spring 2006. The great Italian director who made film history with Rome, Open City also came to fame as the man caught between the two most beautiful and exciting women of his day, Anna Magnani and Ingrid Bergman. His daughter Isabella now gives him this birthday present: a unique book of images and memories of her beloved father. Included is a DVD of "My Dad is 100 Years Old" a film written by Isabella Rossellini and directed by Guy Maddin. Hardcover, 143 pp. $45.00.

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Conversations with John Schlesinger
Ian Buruma
The British director John Schlesinger was one of the cinema's most dynamic and influential artists. Now, in Conversations with John Schlesinger, acclaimed writer Ian Buruma, Schlesinger's nephew, reveals the filmmaker's private world in a series of in-depth interviews conducted in the later years of the director's life. Packed with wit and keen insight into the artistic mind, this book will delight all film fans. Softcover, 177 pp. $21.00.

Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger
William J. Mann
John Schlesinger's career in cinema, stage, opera and television spanned half a century, but it was his films -- Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, and Marathon Man, among other -- that made him famous. With unlimited access to Schlesinger's tapes, diaries, production notes, correspondences, family, and to Schlesinger himself, William J. Mann has crafted a dramatic and finely detailed portrait of this talented artist and fascinating man. Softcover, 628 pp. $21.95.

Schrader on Schrader
Revised Edition
Kevin Jackson
Starting his career as a film critic and entering the industry as a screenwriter, Paul Schrader has matured into one the most consistently interesting film directors working today. This book-length interview -- with examples of Schrader's non-fiction film writing interspersed throughout -- is a brilliant and lucid supplement to this writer/director's remarkable films. Softcover, 320 pp. $39.00.

Conversations With Scorsese
Richard Schickel
From his childhood, through each of his many films, legendary film critic Richard Schickel and iconic film direct Martin Scorcese walk us through the extraordinary life and career of one of the most successful film directors of all time. From Mean Streets to The Departed, this is essential reading for any film studies student, career director, or passionate film fan. Hardcover, 422 pp. $34.00.

Scorsese
Roger Ebert
Scorsese by Ebert offers the first record of America's most respected film critic's engagement with the works of America's greatest living director. The book chronicles every single film in Scorsese's considerable oeuvre, from his debut I Call First to his 2008 release, the Rolling Stones documentary, Shine a Light. Softcover, 297 pp. $29.95.

Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese
Robert Casillo
Who's That Knocking at My Door? Mean Streets. Italian-american. Raging Bull. Goodfellas. Casino. Some of the best films from one of America's most acclaimed filmmakers, Martin Scorsese. Robert Casillo examines these films in the context of the Italian American and Roman Catholic culture in which Scorsese was raised. Softcover, 600 pp. $39.95.

Scorsese's Men: Melancholia and the Mob
Mark Nicholls
In Scorsese's Men, Mark Nicholls traces Scorsese's central theme of melancholia, nostalgia and loss through five films from the legendary director of: The Age of Innocence, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Cape Fear. Softcover, 191 pp. $32.95.

Scorsese: A Journey Through The American Psyche
Paul A. Woods
Rising to prominence during the 1970s, Martin Scorsese was at the forefront of a generation that briefly took US filmmaking to new artistic levels. As a filmmaker, he is an unrivalled cinematic stylist who bring his personal angle to each film in his eclectic filmography. Scorsese: A Journey Through The American Psyche collects the best articles, interviews and reviews into one unique anthology, to explore the multi-faceted art of the master of modern cinema. Softcover, 288 pp. $27.95.

Scorsese on Scorsese
Ian Christie & David Thompson
Now fully updated to include chapters on Kundun, Bringing out the Dead, the documentary My Voyage to Italy and the epic Gangs of New York, Scorsese on Scorsese is the definitive book on Martin Scorsese. With a complete filmography, a wealth of behind-the-scenes stills and sketches, and Scorsese's inimitable narration, this is a unique supplement to the film's of America's foremost filmmaker. Softcover, 325 pp. $38.00.

Ousmane Sembene: Interviews
Annett Busch & Max Annas
Known for urban themes and complex female protagonists, Ousmane Sembene's work, both in French and in his native language Wolof, are considered pioneering masterworks of African cinema. This book collects conversations from the mid-60s to 2005 and spans the breadth of his filmmaking career while also touching on his literary work and his role as a public intellectual. Softcover, 225 pp. $27.95.

Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett
Simon Louvish
This is the story of Mack Sennett, who founded the world's first studio devoted exclusively to movie comedy in Hollywood, 1912. For the next 20 years he presided over cinema's most famous and popular clowns. Be warned, though: this is not simply a tale of pratfalls and slapstick. The world of Mack Sennett and his Keystone Studio is teeming with lecherous husbands, unfaithful wives, venal vagabounds, flirtatious floozies, and moustache-twirling villains. Hardcover, 352 pp. $45.00.

The Man Who Heard Voices
Michael Bamberger
In The Man Who Heard Voices, Michael Bamberger takes you deep into the world of M. Night Shyamalan during the creation of Lady in the Water. Based on nearly two years of exclusive, intimate reporting, Bamberger takes the cover off the secretive director's inspiring methods, penetrating the mysterious story of Lady in the Water, and Shymalon's unique creative process. Hardcover, 279 pp. $36.00.

Silent Bob Speaks: The Collected Works of Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith
In this bawdy, over-the-top rant-fest, award-winning screenwriter and director Kevin Smith waxes rhapsodic and obnoxious on everything from his platonic infatuation with Ben Affleck to his bloodcurdling hatred of "Greasy" Reese Witherspoon, from his shocking diagnosis of morbid obesity to the simple pleasures of that cradle of civilization known as New Jersey. Silent Bob Speaks interweaves the best of his recent journalism with a new introduction by Smith and is guaranteed to make his fans roar with laughter. Softcover, 325 pp. $18.95.

An Askew View
John Kenneth Muir
In the first ever book-length study of the films of Kevin Smith, author John Kenneth Muir thoroughly examines the young director's controversial oeuvre. Muir adds his own insights to a substancial foundation of information culled from interviews with the director himself, as well as various members of his entourage. Fans of this unique auteur will be thrilled with this detailed, behind-the-scenes look at the cinema of Kevin Smith. Softcover, 214 pp. $28.95.

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews
Anthony Kaufman
Charting this writer-director-producer's surprising career, these conversations with Soderbergh reveal him to be as self-effacing and light-hearted in his later more established years as he was when just starting out. Furthermore, these interviews give testament to his status as an independent filmmaker set on revitalizing cinema from the inside out. Softcover, 171 pp. $29.95.

Steven Soderbergh
Jason Wood
This short guide traces Soderburgh's work, from 1989s "sex, lies & videotape" to "Ocean Eleven." The book also includes a list of reference material and published screenplays. Softcover, $11.95.

Steven Spielberg: A Biography
Second Edition
Joseph McBride
This long-awaited second edition of Joseph McBride's acclaimed 1997 biography of Steven Spielberg, the world's most popular and influential filmmaker, adds four new chapters chronicling the richly creative activities of Spielberg's recent years. The original edition was praised by the New York Times Book Review as "an exemplary portrait" written with "impressive detail and sensitivity"; Time called it "easily the finest and fairest of the unauthorized biographies of the director." Softcover, 640 pp. $37.50.

The Complete Spielberg
Ian Freer
A comprehensive examination of Spielberg's work to date, from his 18 feature films to his unrealized projects, his amateur and TV output to his experiences as a producer -- even his little known forays as an actor are covered. The essential guide to cinema's most accomplished storyteller. Softcover, 312 pp. $37.95.

Citizen Spielberg
Lester D. Friedman
Steven Spielberg is the director or producer of over one-third of the thirty highest grossing films of all time, yet most film scholars dismiss him as little more than a modern P.T. Barnum - a technically gifted and intellectually shallow showman who substitutes spectacle for substance. To date, no book has attempted to analyze the components of his worldview and the influence his vast spectrum of imaginative products exerts on the public consciousness. Softcover, 362 pp. $31.50.

Giant: George Stevens, a Life in Film
Marilyn Ann Moss
This book examines the life of one of the most influencial directors to work in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. Through the study of Steven's life and his production history, Moss also presents a glimpse of the workings of the classic Hollywood studio system in its glory days. George Stevens directed such popular films as Giant, A Place in the Sun, and The Diary of Anne Frank. Hardcover, 327 pp. $49.00.

George Stevens: Interviews
Paul Cronin
George Stevens's Giant, Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and A Place in the Sun are some of the undisputed classics of postwar American cinema. This collection of interviews with Stevens reveals the deep moral vision of a filmmaker who is as meticulous, discerning, and contemplative in his conversations as he is as a director. Softcover, 125 pp. $28.95.

Oliver Stone
Stephen Lavington
Whether the subject is war, politics, sport or the defining aspects of an era, Oliver Stone is an expert at polarizing audience views. This indispensible guide takes each of Stone's writing and directorial features in chronological order, discussing them within categories such as "casting", "cut scenes", "music", "conspiracy theory?", and "controversy". It looks at the inspiration behind his work, its connection with the real world and the story behind each film's development. Softcover, 300 pp. $24.95.

Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges
Glenn Lovell
Chronicling the filmmaker's relationships with such luminaries as Spencer Tracy, James Garner, Yul Brynner, and Frank Sinatra, and informed by interviews with the filmmaker's family, collaborators, and John Sturges himself, Escape Artist is the first biography of the legendary filmmaker. Inside, you'll read about the making of such classics as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Bad Day at Black Rock. Softcover, $32.95.

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