Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Film Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her books include Action and Adventure Cinema (Routledge, 2004) and Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (Duke UP, 2007).

This book provides an accessible overview of each director's contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact.

Alphabetical List of Contents. Contributors. Acknowledgments. Notes on the text Introduction. Fifty Contemporary Film Directors. Index