Bücher der Reihe British Film-Makers

Charles Crichton, director of A Fish Called Wanda and several much-loved Ealing comedies, had one of the most remarkable careers in British film history. Featuring interviews with colleagues such as Dame Judi Dench, Petula Clark, John Cleese and Sir Michael Palin, this book provides the first comprehensive study of his work. -- .

The first to examine the work of a man once hailed as the finest film-maker to emerge from the British studio system after the Second World War, J. Lee Thompson -- .

A personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director; Jack Clayton. -- .

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

This book offers an appreciation of all of Fisher's films and also gives a sense of his place in British film history -- .

A major reconsideration of one of British cinema's finest film directors, offering fresh insight into Carol Reed's distinctive work, and his place in the history of British cinema. -- .

This book gives detailed and original critical readings of all eleven of Derek Jarman's feature-length films, arguing that he occupies a major and influential place in European and world cinema rather than merely being a cult figure within a particular subculture. -- .

Students and Lecturers in British film, television and cultural history. -- .

Charts Lance Comfort's career in full -- .

This is a book for those who love British cinema and want to know more about its rise to popularity in the 1940s. The 'quality' films of the decade have been thoroughly explored already, but this book looks at the films the public actually went to see, and provides detailed information on the directors behind them. -- .

Comprehensive overview of the director's body of work which yields new insights on the established classics of Lean's career as well as its lesser-known treasures -- .

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. -- .

A lucid and informative account, drawing on unpublished material, of the career of one of the most successful and significant producers in British cinema. It provides discussion of all his films, including The Seventh Veil (1945), and affords an exceptional insight into the workings of the wartime and postwar British film and television industries. -- .

The first detailed scholarly and authoritative analysis of Richard Attenborough's work as a filmmaker -- .

A study of Anthony Asquith, which sets his work in the context of the history of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, and examines the artistic and cultural influences within which his films can be understood.

Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television.

Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took onexploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even VincentPrice to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating despair:Witchfinder General. -- .

Exciting, stimulating, and eminently readable, this first-ever analysis of the work of Terence Davies provides a detailed and wide-ranging exploration of his films and demonstrates his central importance to contemporary cinema. -- .

Analyses the achievement of one of the central partnerships in British film history -- .