Start with high-confidence director studies books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Éric Rohmer
Antoine de Baecque, Noël Herpe
Kazan on Directing
Elia Kazan
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Werner Herzog, Michael Hofmann
In the Scene: Jane Campion
Ellen Cheshire
The Last Kings of Hollywood
Paul Fischer
The Open Door
Peter Brook
The Art of Stillness
Paul Allain
The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads
Spoke Art Gallery
My Life in 24 Frames Per Second
Rintaro
The Cinema of Michael Powell
Ian Christie, Andrew Moor
In the Scene
Jen Francis, Cheryl Robson
The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Jay Glennie, Quentin Tarantino