This book provides a fresh look at the director's legacy, with critical essays by both world-famous and early-career film scholars.

A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity

Ever since his first feature film I Killed My Mother premiered at Cannes, every film from the 29-year-old director Xavier Dolan has generated significant critic

Chion analyzes imaginative uses of the human voice by directors like Lang, Hitchcock, Ophuls, Duras, and de Palma.

The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. His work has had an enormous infl