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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. $17.95.

Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
Scott Eyman
A Scott Eyman brilliantly demonstrates in this superbly researched biography, which draws on a massive cache of DeMille family papers not available to previous biographers, DeMille was much more than his cliched image. A gifted director who worked in many genres; a devoted family man and loyal friend with a highly unconventional personal life; a pioneering filmmaker: DeMille comes alive in these pages, a legend whose spectacular career defined an era. Hardcover, 579 pp. $40.00.

Brian De Palma: Interviews
Lawrence F. Knapp
Since the late 1960's Brian De Palma has established himself as one of the most innovative 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. $28.95.

Jonathan Demme: Interviews
Robert E. Kapsis
With conversations from the 1970s to the present, Jonathan Demme: Interviews focuses on Demme's artistry, on his filmmaking philosophy, and especially on his progressive social and political concerns and how these have influenced the subject matter he has chosen to film. Softcover, 183 pp. $27.95.

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.

Gustav Deutsch
Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg & Michael Loebenstein
According to Viennese filmmaker Gustav Deutsch, "film is more than film." His own career proves that point. In addition to being an internationally acclaimed creator of found footage films, he is also a visual artist, an architect, a researcher, an educator, an archaeologist, and a traveler. This volume traces the way in which the cinema of Gustav Deutsch transcends our common notion of film. Softcover, 252 pp. $34.50.

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.

Clint: A Retrospective
Richard Schickel
Clint Eastwood has achieved an iconic status unmatched in the history of cinema. For more than six decades, he has been making outstanding films, first as a leading actor and subsequently as an intelligent and questioning director. Complete with a comprehensive filmography, this beautifully illustrated book is a fitting tribute to a movie icon whose achievements have enriched our culture and illuminated the times in which we have lived. Hardcover, 288 pp. $44.95.

American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood
Marc Eliot
In American Rebel, bestselling author and acclaimed film historian Marc Eliot examines the ever-exciting, often-tumultuous arc of Clint Eastwood's life and career. Unlike past biographers, Eliot writes with unflinching candor about Eastwood's highs and lows, his artistic successes and failures, and the fascinating, complex relationship between his life and his craft. Softcover, 383 pp. $18.00.

Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood
Howard Hughes
Aim for the Heart covers all of Eastwood's movies in detail. The filmmaker's story is illustrated with film stills, glimpses behind the scenes and rare poster advertising material. This book also includes the most comprehensive credits filmography ever compiled on Eastwood's work, as a star and director. Hardcover, 252 pp. $32.00.

Atom Egoyan: Interviews
T.J. Morris
These interviews, collected from the last two decades reveal Egoyan's unique themes and his individual, independent approach to filmmaking. He discusses his development as a director, his interest in opera and museum installations, and the expectations he has for his audience. He engages in open, forthright discussions of his work and those who have worked with him. Softcover, 209 pp. $27.95.

Atom Egoyan
Emma Wilson
Offering a full-scale chronological overview of Atom Egoyan's work on films up to and including Where the Truth Lies, Emma Wilson shows the persistence and development of the key tropes and themes in the filmmaker's cinema. Egoyan's own comments on his films are thread throughout the book, and a recent interview with the director is included as well. Softcover, 161 pp. $31.95.

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. $28.95.

Sergei Eisenstein
Mike O'Mahony
A major influence on filmmakers of the calibre of Hitchcock, Godard, Fellini and Scorsese, Sergei Eisenstein left an enduring legacy, although it was one deeply informed by the political realities of early twentieth century Soviet Communism. In this book, Mike O'Mahony uses this historical framework to examine the richly diverse films, writings, artwork and private life of one of cinema's greatest innovators. Softcover, 219 pp. $20.95.

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. $29.95.

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Federico Fellini: The Films
Tullio Kezich
This definitive and important contribution on Federico Fellini chronicles the body of work of one of the most influential and revered directors of all time. It features the great director's own drawings, skietches, storyboards, notes and commentary along with behind-the-scenes photographs and covers each film from the entire span of his career. Hardcover, 320 pp. $92.00.

Federico 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.

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. $32.95.

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.

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. Softcover, 592 pp., $27.95.

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.

All My Flashbacks: The Autobiography of Lewis Gilbert
Lewis Gilbert
In All My Flashbacks, Lewis Gilbert recalls his tragic childhood as a music hall entertainer, his traumatic wartime service in the RAF and ultimately one of the most distinguished careers in British cinema. Along the way he describes working with such diverse personalities as Laurence Olivier, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Liza Minnelli. Hardcover, 399 pp. $44.95.s

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.

Godard
Richard Roud
Richard Roud's Godard, first published in 1967 as 'Number One' in the seminal Cinema One series, was the first monograph on the great filmmaker to be published in English, and one that reveals a unique intimacy between the author and his subject. Roud's provocative and far-reaching analysis shows an intuitive understanding of the aesthetic, intellectual and political context in which Godard worked. Softcover, 190 pp. $23.00.

For Ever Godard
Michael Temple (editor) et al.
With 22 lavishly illustrated chapters, as well as a photo essay and a visual filmography, For Ever Godard aims to do critical justice to the full sweep of Godard's artistic interests and preoccupations. The volume presents material by scholars and practitioners from film and media studies, art history, musicology, philosophy and aesthetics, museum studies, French studies, European history, cultural studies, and feminism and gender studies. Softcover, 460 pp. $48.00.


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. $24.95.

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Last modified February 28, 2011.
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