Theatre & Dance & Music Biography - Film Directors biography

Kazan on Kazan

Elia Kazan edited Jeff Young

Faber & Faber

Elia Kazan is the director responsible for films such as On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata! and East of Eden - to name but a few. With Marlon Brando and James Dean he inaugurated a new...

$24.99

Cocteau on the Film

Andre Fraigneau

Used Copy

First English Edition - published 1954 from a Recorded Conversation

$49.99

Lynch on Lynch

Chris Rodley - ed

Faber & Faber

Lynch on Lynch describes the career of a cinematic genius who has continued to astonish filmgoers with the lovely and life-affirming The Straight Story and the luxurious dread of the Academy Award-nominated ...

$12.99

A Concise History of the Cinema - Volume 1 - Before 1940

Peter Cowie - ed

Used Copy

$19.99

Frank Capra - The Catastrophe of Success

Joseph McBride

Faber & Faber

Based on extensive interviews with Frank Capra himself, this is a biography of the director of films such as "It Happened One Night", "Mr Deeds Goes to Town" and "It's a Wonderful Life". He achieved fame dur...

$12.99

Puberty Blues - a Critique

Nell Schofield

Currency Press

In this lively and honest account of the making of the Australian classic film, writer and broadcaster Nell Schofield recalls how she won the role of Debbie and what it was like on the set She looks at th...

$23.99

Chinese Box & A Film-maker's Diary

Jean-Claude Carriere

Faber & Faber

The film "Chinese Box", starring Jeremy Irons and Gong Li, portrays a cross-cultural love story set against the run-up to the hand-over of Hong Kong, and filmed on the spot as it happened. This volume contai...

$12.99

Stanley Kubrick - A Biography

John Baxter

Used Copy

With d/j

$50

Total Directing - Integrating Camera and Performance in Film and Television

Tom Kingdon

Silman-James Press

This is the first book to fully integrate the technical aspects of screen directing with practical methods for directing actors, deeply and carefully exploring how these two primary aspects of the directo...

$29.99

David Lean

Kevin Brownlow

Faber & Faber

The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great ...

$32.95

The Encyclopedia of British Film - Second Edition

Brian McFarlane with Anthony Slide

Methuen

An updated edition of the comprehensive history of the British film industry from its inception to the present day, with minute listings of the producers, directors, actors and studios behind a century or ...

$45.95