Before becoming the critically acclaimed filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick spent five years as a photographer for Look magazine. The Bronx native joined the staff in 1945, when he was only 17 years old, and shot humanist slice-of-life features that celebrate and expose New York City and its inhabitants. This book reveals the keen and evocative vision of a burgeoning creative genius.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year-old Elio begins a relationship with the visiting Oliver, his father's research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the beguiling Italian landscape.
From the beginning of the history of cinema to the present day, from Lubitsch to Jeunet, Montmartre has always been a favored setting for films by French and foreign directors alike who are working in Paris. This book evokes the various preferred locations for these films in Montmartre, its atypical scenes and its residents.
Directed by Craig Gillespie
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
This book, like its twin volume Female Authorship and Documentary Strategies, centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices. Addressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars now expand the theoretical and practical framework informing the current scholarship on documentary cinema, which has so far neglected questions of gender.