CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICAN FILM DIRECTORS

This revised and updated edition encompasses the careers of up to 600 directors that have worked within the North American film industry, including Canada, since the early 1990s. This edition features new or revised material on 150 directors, and includes coverage of mainstream luminaries such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Robert Altman, independent mavericks like Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch, and innovative emerging talents including Todd Field (In the Bedroom), David Gordon Green (George Washington) and Marc Forster (Monster's Ball). This volume thus continues to be a unique reference to the changing dynamics of the world's most consumed cinema.

January 2002
608 pages

978-1-903364-52-9 (pbk)

£18.99

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Yoram Allon is Editorial Director of Wallflower Press.

Del Cullen is Copy Editor at Wallflower Press and a novelist and screenwriter.

Hannah Patterson is a freelance writer and film critic. She is also the editor of The Cinema of Terrence Malick [LINK] (2007).

‘MUST BUY. This concise, lively guide to helmers currently plying their trade in the States threatens to become indispensable … Particularly pleasing is the way that directors who tend not to get much attention are given long shrift here ... An invaluable reference tool and thoroughly enjoyable read.’
– Empire 

‘Offers an extremely useful, incisive and lucid account of an extraordinary range of modern American filmmakers.’
– Geoff Andrew, Time Out 

‘The writing is lucid and the information is remarkably current… This directory offers unique content … This unparalleled directory should be purchased for film students, researchers, and enthusiasts in academic and public libraries.’
– Booklist

‘Editors Allon, Cullen and Patterson retain the high quality of the first edition of this work, the inaugural volume in Wallflower Press's series on contemporary film directors ... More than 80 critics contributed to this work ... the entries are well written and informative. As with the first edition, the book's strength is its currency - it includes many first-time directors and the editors pay attention to lowbrow as well as highbrow filmmakers, encompassing both John Waters and Martin Scorsese. Considering the variety of directors included ... this guide is essential for all film studies collections.'
– Library Journal 

'Distinguished, if not made indispensable, by its willingness to include as many directors as possible, even if they have made but one film.'
– www.cinemonkey.com

‘This volume is comprehensive and up-to-date ... A handy reference guide.. Put together with intelligence and enthusiasm, each entry provides a meticulous account of its subject's career ... As a one-stop reference stop, this certainly deserves to become a staple.'
– Film Review