Books in the British Film-Makers series

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. -- .

This book is the most sustained and comprehensive examination to date of one of cinema's most challenging and lauded auteur. It proposes new ways of seeing Gilliam and his films that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. It analyses Gilliam's work over nearly four decades, from Monty Python, to Brazil and Tideland. -- .

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. -- .

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

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". -- .

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 -- .

Charts Lance Comfort's career in full -- .

From dramatic reflections on the Blitz to insightful examinations of post-war conditions, Jennings' startling documentary films redefined the genre. The book carefully examines and explains the central components of Jennings' most significant films, and considers the relevance of his filmmaking to British cinema and contemporary experience.

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 -- .

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.

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

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 -- .

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. -- .