This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur! (Fat Girl), Anatomy of Hell and The Last Mistress. This volume explores the director's complex relation to religion and to feminism, and it examines the differences b[...]
Over the last five decades, the films of director Brian De Palma (b. 1940) have been among the biggest successes ("The Untouchables, Mission: Impossible") and the most high-profile failures ("The Bonfire of the Vanities") in Hollywood history. De Palma helped launch the careers of such prominent act[...]
A world-weary detective, a seductive femme fatale, a mysterious murder - these elements of classic film noir live again in more recent hardboiled detective films from Chinatown to Sin City. But the themes of noir have also spilled over into gangster movies, as well as creating new genres including p[...]