LucreciaMartel has made only four feature films to date but has nonetheless b...Lucrecia Martel has made only four feature films to date but has nonetheless become one of the world s most admired directors. Her work is extraordinarily sensitive to the limits of sensory perception the limits imposed by gender roles and the...more
LucreciaMartel has made only four feature films to date but has nonetheless b...Lucrecia Martel has made only four feature films to date but has nonetheless become one of the world s most admired directors. Her work is extraordinarily sensitive to the limits of sensory perception the limits imposed by gender roles and the...more
Jocelyne Saab was one ofthe most important female filmmakers pioneering a sen...Jocelyne Saab was one of the most important female filmmakers pioneering a sense of international emancipatory world cinema from the early 1970s to her death in 2019. This book is the first English-language study dedicated to her entire oeuvre which...more
Few directors have played such a prominent role as Francis Veber in shaping th...Few directors have played such a prominent role as Francis Veber in shaping the cinematic identity of France over the past forty years yet in many ways his chosen genre of comedy has relegated his work to the margins of Film Studies. Using an...more
Korean cinema though currently established as one ofthe most successful inter...Korean cinema though currently established as one of the most successful international film industries has never been a fair ground for women filmmakers. Amidst the heavily male dominated Korean cinema and the film industry Yim has consistently...more
An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society the fil...An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-98) has become a neglected figure in discussions of diaspora cinema. In this - the first English-language book to reflect on his work and...more
Despite the brief span of her directorial career lasting from 1963 to 1979 the...Despite the brief span of her directorial career lasting from 1963 to 1979 the Soviet Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko produced a remarkable body of work one that received an expansive national and international attention and led her to winning...more
Pablo LarraÃn is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean ...Pablo LarraÃn is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and established a focused critical dialogue about Chile s troubled contemporary history his work presents an...more
João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata are one ofthe most cosmopo...João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata are one of the most cosmopolitan duos in contemporary world cinema. Their films tell us stories of love and human desire receiving a highly favourable reception among critics and at international...more
Silent-era film scholarship has all too often focused on a handful of German d...Silent-era film scholarship has all too often focused on a handful of German directors including Fritz Lang F. W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch but little attention has been paid to arguably one of the most influential filmmakers of the period: Paul...more
Working across a range of formats from video art and gallery installations to ...Working across a range of formats from video art and gallery installations to independent cinema to Hollywood to the BBC Steve McQueen s prodigious output has been marked by formal ambition and political urgency. This vital collection interrogates...more
This book offers a transnational internationalist-feminist approach to the oeu...This book offers a transnational internationalist-feminist approach to the oeuvre of award-winning director writer and curator Annemarie Jacir. Palestinian film culture is unique due to its geopolitical circumstances including continued colonialism...more
TheFilmsof Agnieszka Holland is the first monograph devoted to the internati...The Films of Agnieszka Holland is the first monograph devoted to the internationally most famous Polish filmmaker a three times Oscar nominee and the recipient of numerous film festival prizes. It examines her rich original oeuvre which ranges from...more