His name does not conjure the almost automatic word association that comes with discussing film’s most legendary directors, but Rouben Mamoulian has remained something of a mystery. Until now.

In this fourth installment focusing on the craft of filmmaking, Mike Goodridge profiles 16 of the world’s most respected directors, as well as five influential filmmakers who shaped the medium’s first century.

Over the past 40 years, Clint Eastwood has gone from being ‘The Man with No Name’ to one of the industry’s most respected filmmakers.

As this Taschen volume makes clear, the Master of Suspense remains appealing to cineastes young and old, with 50-plus features underscoring his timeless ingenuity.

Author Gwenda Young makes the case that from the silent era to the golden age, Clarence Brown deserves a place among the giants.

Director Ernst Lubitsch, who was idolized by Wilder and Welles, is brought into sharp focus.

The making of George Stevens' Texas-sized epic is recounted in Don Graham's meticulously chronicled book.

As the newly scaled down yet no less comprehensive Taschen book Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made demonstrates, Kubrick was nothing if not a completist.