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Sam Fuller: Film Is a Battleground: A Critical Study, with Interviews, a Filmography and a Bibliography

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This is the essential book on Sam Fuller from McFarland Publishing and author Lee Server. Adeptly assembled, the title covers all of Fuller's output from boyhood newspaper hustling in New York City, to uncredited and lucrative screenplay rewrites in Hollywood, through his startling and influential films as director, and concluding with his work as novelist. Interviewing Fuller in depth in Paris and domestically, many actors and film professionals who worked with him throughout his career, Server has provided an invaluable resource. Each section of the book is extremely informative, supplying crucial background, analysis, and descriptions of the man, his life and his work. The book has the advantage of being able to include Mr. Fuller's entire oeuvre and is the only title in print on the director. Each film is carefully detailed. Useful appendices cover his television credits, unrealized projects, and novels. An excellent resource of an almost unknown director, whose films have influenced everyone from Godard to Scorsese to Coppola.