Fifty Contemporary Film Directors

This book provides an accessible overview of each director's contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact.

Pedro Almodovar - Jose Arroyo; Wes Anderson - Devin Orgeron; Aoyama Shinji - Aaron Gerow; Gregg Araki - Glyn Davis; Luc Besson - Rosanna Maule; Kathryn Bigelow - Yvonne Tasker; Charles Burnett - Chuck Kleinhans; Tim Burton - Yvonne Tasker; James Cameron - Alexandra Keller; Jane Campion - Shelley Cobb; Gurinder Chadha - Rayna Denison; Jackie Chan - Leon Hunt; The Coen brothers - Jon Lewis; Sofia Coppola - Pam Cook; David Cronenberg - Marc O'Day; Julie Dash - Terry Moore; Guillermo Del Toro - Lindsay Steenberg; Atom Egoyan - Geoff Pevere; David Fincher - Devin Orgeron; Hal Hartley - Sebastian Manley; Todd Haynes - Justin Wyatt; Peter Jackson - Paul Malcolm; Jim Jarmusch - Jason Wood; Neil Jordan - Maria Pramaggiore; Aki Kaurismaki - Tytti Soila; Abbas Kiarostami - Sharon Lin Tay; Ang Lee - Ian Haydn Smith; Spike Lee - Yvonne Tasker; David Lynch - Marc O'Day; Michael Mann - Christopher Sharrett; Shane Meadows - Martin Fradley; Hiyao Miyazaki - Rayna Denison; Michael Moore - Diane Negra; Mira Nair - Sue Brennan; Francois Ozon - Ginette Vincendeau; Park Chan-Wook - Anne Ciecko and Hunju Lee; Sally Potter - Anne Ciecko; John Sayles - Marc Jancovich and James Lyons; Martin Scorsese - George S. Larke; Steven Soderbergh - Jennifer Holt; Todd Solondz - Dean DeFino; Steven Spielberg - Peter Kramer; Oliver Stone - Martin Fradley; Quentin Tarantino - Glyn White; Lars von Trier - Mette Hjort; Gus Van Sant - Harry M. Benshoff; Wong Kar-wai - Julian Stringer; John Woo - Tony Williams; Zhang Yimou - Haomin Gong; Zhang Yuan - Zhang Zhen