Books in the On Directors series

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most important figures in contemporary cinema. This book provides an introduction to the practical and creative elements of his work, and looks at the film culture out of which Tarantino's work emerges and which informs our ways of reading it. It appeals to undergraduates studying modern cinema or American film.

This text explores the major movies through discussion of their themes and techniques and reveals how much Ford was concerned with the very issues that are central to us today: gender, race, the treatment of ethnic minorities and social outcasts, the nature of history and the relationship between myth and reality.

Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock's major British and Hollywood films and usefully navigates the reader through the wealth of critical commentaries, through which they have been approached.