Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors survey key directors whose work together constitutes what we refer to as the Hollywood and world cinema canons. Whether Haneke or Hitchcock, Bigelow or Bergmann, Capra or the Coen brothers, each volume, comprised of 25 or more newly commissioned essays written by leading experts, explores a canonical, contemporary and/or controversial auteur in a sophisticated, authoritative, and multidimensional capacity. Individual volumes interrogate any number of subjects – the director’s oeuvre; dominant themes, well-known, worthy, and underrated films; stars, collaborators, and key influences; reception, reputation, and above all, the director’s intellectual currency in the scholarly world.

Published

1. A Companion to Michael Haneke, edited by Roy Grundmann

2. A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague

3. A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, edited by Brigitte Peucker

4. A Companion to Werner Herzog, edited by Brad Prager

5. A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar, edited by Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen Vernon

6. A Companion to Woody Allen, edited by Peter J. Bailey and Sam B. Girgus

7. A Companion to Jean Renoir, edited by Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau

8. A Companion to Francois Truffaut, edited by Dudley Andrew and Anne Gillian

9. A Companion to Luis Buñuel, edited by Robert Stone and Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla