Product Description: Known as the celebrated director of critical and commercial successes such as Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his distinctive visual style and signature motifs. While recent books and articles discussing his life and work focus on the production and philosophy of his iconic Hollywood-era films like Notorious (1946) and Vertigo (1958), Hitchcock Lost and Found moves beyond these seminal works to explore forgotten, incomplete, lost, and recovered productions from all stages of his career, including his early years in Britain...read more

Product Description: “Memoirs of a Hooker” is a story of pleasure and pain, where lost ideals leave voids with moments of ephemeral fixes. It's a story of brutality, where the psyche is the victim and the mores of society, the instrument of a besieging consequence; sparing some while impinging others with its stinging barbs of inequality...read more

Product Description: The political, historical, and cultural forces that shaped the development of the Western film genre—especially the 30 years after World War II—are explored in this book. Addressing the treatment of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and children, the role of violence, the landscape, and poker playing, this cultural analysis advances the theory that most Westerns of those years can be put into four principal categories that reflect the styles and ideologies of the four leading politicians of that era: John F...read more

Product Description: Wild Strawberries is probably Ingmar Bergman's most personal film and one which explores his relation to the history of Swedish cinema. This study is written by Philip French, film critic of The Observer. It features a brief production history and detailed filmography. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of poetry about the cinema includes work by almost 100 English-language poets. It guides readers through the silent era to talkies, movie stars, home movies and beyond - the final poem being about recording TV films onto VHS.

Product Description: For 35 years Louis Malle has pursued one of the most varied and successful careers in post-war cinema. In this book, he discusses his development as an artist - the often fierce controversies aroused by his films dealing with subjects like child prostitution, incest and wartime collaboration, the year spent shooting his "Phantom India" documentary series and his decision to move to America to make films in the 1970s...read more

Product Description: Book by French, Philip