Global Film Directors

The volumes of Global Film Directors will explore cinematic innovations by prominent and emerging directors in major European, American, Asian and African film movements. Each volume will address the history of a director’s oeuvre and its influence upon defining new cinematic genres, narratives, and techniques. Contributing scholars will take a context-oriented approach to evaluating how these directors produced an identifiable style, paying due attention to those forces, both within the industry and national cultures, that led to global recognition of these directors. These volumes will address how directors functioned within national and global marketplaces, contributed to and expanded film movements, and transformed world cinema. By focusing upon representative films that defined the directors’ signatures, these volumes provide new critical focus upon international directors, who are just emerging to prominence or whose work has been largely ignored in standard historical accounts. This series, then, intends to open up the field of new auteurism studies beyond film biographies by exploring directorial style as influencing global cinema aesthetics,theory, and economics.