Books by Sam Rohdie

An original and provocative study. Theoretically lucid and engaging, it will be an essential text for any student of film. -- .

Montage is an informed and highly original study in the styles and histories of film editing. Drawing on a wide range of directors and films, the book demonstrates the fundamental importance of montage aesthetics to the art of cinema and the practice of film criticism. -- .

A penetrating and illuminating series of essays that looks at some of the most distinctive directors in world cinema. Sam Rohdie is one of the most distinguished film scholars currently writing. He moves from the very well known - Hitchcock, Truffaut, Visconti, Welles - to those that he feels need more attention - Painleve, Vigo and Franju. -- .

Fellini Lexicon explores the forms and substances, significances and insignificances, objects and shadows in Fellini's work - the dance and music of his characters, the colour, light, and movement in his images. Fellini Lexicon is an original, delightful approach to Fellini's work and to the practice of film criticism.