Böcker i Refocus: The International Dir-serien

The first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young and his films in English

Explores the detail of Jane Campion's film and television output, considering her vision and practice, legacy, and her contribution to feminist filmmaking

Working across a range of formats, from video art and gallery installations to independent cinema, Hollywood and the BBC, Steve McQueen's prodigious output has been marked by formal ambition and political urgency. ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen interrogates the director's body of work, its political, aesthetic and institutional dimensions, and the interfaces between them. It offers critical insights into McQueen's engagements with race, gender, the body, love and pain, and his abiding self-reflexive interest in the potential of multiple audio-visual forms. The first director to win both the Turner Prize and an Oscar for best picture, McQueen is probably the most important working British filmmaker. This vital collection explores the controversies as well as the achievements in McQueen's stellar career to date. Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

With a career spanning over three decades, French filmmaker Claire Denis has demonstrated not only a remarkable longevity in a notoriously fickle industry, but a continuing fascination with the possibilities of film as form, art, and language. ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis is a timely look at an artist at the height of her powers with an impressive oeuvre which is reinterpreted in light of new works, including High Life and Both Sides of the Blade. Comprised of 13 original chapters from world leading Denis scholars and early career researchers, this collection includes an accessible introduction for those new to Denis studies, with an overview of thematic interests, and a brief survey of the most salient and influential trends in Denis scholarship. Peter Sloane is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in English at the University of Buckingham, UK.