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This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to terms with American history, with how America kept changing its relationship with history and how many of the myths of the West were just that myths.

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This reference book provides researchers an opportunity to locate information about John Ford.

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In film history, Wayne has a place as one of the great stars, perhaps even one of the great actors.

This book provides a full introduction to the study of John Wayne: his life, the components of his image, and the resources available for further inquiry.

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This contribution to the WISH List of interdisciplinary studies in the humanities makes the case for the significance of Joseph Cornell's films, for both an Art History and a Film Studies audience. It should also have significant appeal to students of American Studies and all those interested in pop culture, celebrity and fandom.

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The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries, from . collaborator with Bertholt Brecht, director of Hollywood B-pictures and victim of McCarthyism, to director of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between". -- .

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Challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in illustrated magazines, this work she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience.

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Spindle's reference chronicles the professional career of one of the world's most loved performers, Julie Andrews. Videomania

For fans of Julie Andrews as well as students of the performing arts, Spindle's reference chronicles the professional career of one of the world's most loved performers.

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Duvivier was a giant of classic French cinema with a career spanning key moments of French film history. This analysis goes beyond its historical range to engage with key debates in film studies: notably auteurism, stardom and questions of the national. -- .

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This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish expert on Spanish cinema. -- .

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An innovative, archetypal analysis of popular science-fiction and fantasy films.

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This first full-length critical analysis of the Czech-born, British director, Karel Reisz uses recent interdisciplinary methodologies to explore the crisis of political commitment and historical displacement in the context of the 1960s and '70s counter-culture. -- .

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A guide to the life and work of one of the greatest film-makers of the twentieth century - Kenji Mizoguchi. It discusses Mizoguchi's key films, cinematographic techniques and his social and aesthetic concerns.

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The true story of Shah Rukh Khan, infused with "edge-of-your seat tension worthy of the best Bollywood blockbusters, mirroring the underbelly of the culture of Bollywood (Kirkus).

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Beginning with the Lumiere filming of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, this title presents an observation of a major cultural phenomenon: the evolution of the Soviet film as an artistic and political instrument. It contains 150 drawings and photographs and five appendices, including a list of selected Russian and Soviet films.

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'Animals who know they will die, beings lost on earth, forever caught between two species, not animal enough, not cerebral enough.' In a supplementary chapter Chion argues that Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), is a return to 2001, a final statement of its concerns.

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Kubrick's Story, Spielberg's Film looks at the evolution A.I. Artificial Intelligencefrom a science fiction short story by Brian Aldiss to a screenplay and treatment by Stanley Kubrick, and finally to the finished work by Steven Spielberg.

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An original study of Kubrick's philosophical themes and cinematic qualities: time, light, speech, music, poiesis, corporeality, war, eros, technology, and transcendence.

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A biography of British film director Lance Comfort.

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In Landscapes of Loss, Naomi Greene makes new sense of the rich variety of postwar French films by exploring the obsession with the national past that has characterized French cinema since the late 1960s.

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A collection of essays analyzing the place of women in the films of Danish director Lars von Trier.

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Latino American cinema is a provocative, complex, and definitively American topic of study. This book examines key mainstream commercial films while also spotlighting often-underappreciated documentaries, avant-garde and experimental projects, independent productions, features and shorts, and more.