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
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
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
ReFocus: TheFilmsof Claire Denis comprises 14 original works of criticism fr...ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis comprises 14 original works of criticism from world leading Denis scholars and early career researchers.With contributors from as far afield as Canada and Australia the collection offers a global perspective on...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
The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sun...The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Michel Gondry has directed a number of innovative ground-breaking films and...more
Despite an output of only 7 feature films in 20 years Andrei Tarkovsky has had...Despite an output of only 7 feature films in 20 years Andrei Tarkovsky has had a profound influence on international cinema. Famous for their spiritual depth and incredible visual beauty his films have gained cult status among cineastes and are...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
JoaquÃn Jordá is not only one ofthe most important directors in Spanish fil...JoaquÃn Jordá is not only one of the most important directors in Spanish film history but through his films he also connects this history with the ideological and aesthetical movements that took place in European cinema and culture. His influence...more
Recognised as one ofthe most significant contemporary directors Pawel Pawliko...Recognised as one of the most significant contemporary directors Pawel Pawlikowski achieved global acclaim with the Academy Award-winning Ida (2013). ReFocus: The Films of Pawel Pawlikowski is the first book-length study of the director s...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