Filmmakers

by Andy Koopmans

Cinema has the ability to inspire, influence, and entertain audiences. It is also the art form through which filmmakers explore their interests and employ their talents. This volume covers the lives and careers of five filmmakers whose uncompromising personal vision and professional investment in the art of movie making made them legendary.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Andy is the author of sixteen non-fiction titles, including histories of the Leopold & Loeb trial, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Blues, and biographies of figures including Bruce Lee, Charles Manson, Pol Pot, and Nelson Mandela. He is also the editor of a volume of essays, Examining Pop Culture: Crime and Criminals.

Andy is also a fiction writer, essayist, and poet with publications in journals and anthologies including Black Scat Noir, Black Scat Review, Sunshine Noir II, Fiction International, Central Park, The Southern Anthology, Collage & Bricolage, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Conceptions Southwest, Heaven Bone, and others. He is the author of two fiction collections: Narrative Cult Visions (1997 MFA thesis) and The Veronicas of Our Own Perversions (2024).