234mm x 156mm 272 pages 24 b&w illustration(s) ReFocus: The American Directors Series Published June 2020 ISBN Hardback: 9781474462037 Recommend to your Librarian Request a Review Copy ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader's unique relationship to the role of the author (as screenwriter, director and critic) has long informed his cinema, and raises complicated questions about the definition of the auteur. This volume of essays includes the first original appraisals of his much-lauded masterpiece First Reformed (2017), as well as a chapter-length interview with Schrader himself, conducted by the editors. Michelle E. Moore PhD is Professor of English at the College of DuPage.