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The Fundamentals of Film Making (2026)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > All techniques
Terence Davies Screenplays (2026)
Volume I: Autobiography and Biography
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Director > Terence Davies
Robert Bresson (2026)
Cinematic Style as Philosophy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Director > Robert Bresson
Harmony and Dissent (2010)
Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Detecting Canada (2014)
Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film
Dir. Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
The Technique of Film and Video Editing (2026)
History, Theory, and Practice
by Ken Dancyger
Publisher: Routledge
The Heart of Your Script (2026)
The Insider's Guide to Writing the Difficult Middle Section of a Screenplay
by Ted Wilkes and Phil Hughes
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction (2024)
Stories of Repentance and Defiance
Dir. James E. Bennett and Marguerite Johnson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
The Monomyth Reboot (2026)
A Transmodern Update for Mythopoeia
by Nadia Salem
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Film Analysis
War Faces on Screen (2026)
Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation
Dir. Katy Parry and Mani Sharpe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
A Star Is Reborn (2026)
The Most Filmed Hollywood Story of Love Found and Lost
Publisher: Citadel Press
Subject: One Film > A Star Is Born
The Haunted Present (2026)
Slavic Neo-Noir Cinema and Television
Dir. Elena Prokhorova, Alexander Prokhorov and Rimgaila Salys
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Agnès Varda (2025)
Tales of images
Dir. Luca Malavasi and Anna Masecchia
Publisher: Mimesis International
Subject: Director > Agnès Varda
Theatre to Cinema (1998)
Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film
by Benjamin Robert Brewster and Lea Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Stage to screen (1949)
: Theatrical method from Garrick to Griffith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Hollywood Gothic (2004)
The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
From Stage to Screen (2015)
A Theatre Actor's Guide to Working on Camera
by Bill Britten
Publisher: Methuen Drama
The Classic American Novel and the Movies (1977)
Dir. Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzhin
Publisher: Ungar
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
The Work of Dorothy Arzner (1975)
Towards a feminist cinema
Dir. Claire Johnston and Pam Cook
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Director > Dorothy Arzner
From Sambo to Superspade (1975)
The Black experience in motion pictures
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Subject: Sociology
Kings of the Bs (1975)
Working within the Hollywood system : An anthology of film history and criticism
Dir. Todd McCarthy and Charles Flynn
Publisher: Dutton
All the Stars in Heaven (1982)
The Story of Louis B. Mayer and M.G.M.
by Gary Carey
Publisher: Robson
Subject: Others persons > Louis B. Mayer
King Cohn (2000)
The Life and Times of Harry Cohn
by Bob Thomas
Publisher: New Millenium
Subject: Others persons > Harry Cohn
The Innocent Eye (2023)
The Life of Robert J. Flaherty
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Subject: Director > Robert Flaherty
Writers in Hollywood (1990)
1915-1951
by Ian Hamilton
Publisher: Harper and Row
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Some Time in the Sun (1976)
The Hollywood Years of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley & James Agee
by Tom Dardis
Publisher: Scribner
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
The Modern American novel and the movies (1978)
Dir. Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin
Publisher: Ungar
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
We're in the Money (1992)
Depression America and It's Films
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Subject: Countries > United States
The Celluloid Weapon (1972)
Social comment in the American film
Publisher: Beacon Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Hollywood Social Problem Film (1981)
Madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties
by Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Selznick (2001)
The Man Who Produced Gone With the Wind
by Bob Thomas
Publisher: New Millenium
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
Showman (1992)
The Life of David O. Selznick
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
Memo from David O. Selznick (2000)
The Creation of ":Gone with the Wind": and Other Motion Picture Classics, as Revealed in the Producer's Private Letters, Telegrams, Memorandums, and Autobiographical Remarks
by David O. Selznick and Rudy Behlmer
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick's Hollywood (1980)
by Ronald Haver
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
Goldwyn (1976)
A Biography of the Man Behind the Myth
by Arthur Marx
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co
Subject: Others persons > Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (1956)
The Producer and his Films
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Subject: Others persons > Samuel Goldwyn
A New Deal in Entertainment (1983)
Warner Brothers in the 1930's
by Nick Roddick
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Studio > Warner Bros
Inside Warner Brothers (1985)
(1935-1951)
by Rudy Behlmer
Publisher: Viking
Subject: Studio > Warner Bros
Judy Garland (2025)
The Voice of MGM
by Scott Brogan
Publisher: Lyons Press
Subject: Actress > Judy Garland
Judy (2011)
A Legendary Film Career
by John Fricke
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Actress > Judy Garland
Judy Garland on Judy Garland (2014)
Interviews and Encounters
Dir. Randy L. Schmidt
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Actress > Judy Garland
Power and Paranoia (1986)
History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940-1950
by Dana Polan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Running Away From Myself (1969)
A dream portrait of America drawn from the films of the forties
Publisher: Grossman Publishers
Subject: Sociology
Violent America (1971)
The movies, 1946-1964
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Subject: Genre > Gangster films
Biblical Epics (2009)
Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Immediate Experience (2002)
Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Sociology
American Vision (1996)
The Films of Frank Capra
by Ray Carney
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Director > Frank Capra
The Complete Films of Frank Capra (1992)
by Victor Scherle and William Turner-Levy
Publisher: Citadel Press
Subject: Director > Frank Capra
Home is Where the Heart Is (1987)
Studies in Melodrama and the Woman's Film
Dir. Christine Gledhill
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Movie-Made America (1994)
A Cultural History of American Movies
by Robert Sklar
Publisher: Random House
Subject: Countries > United States
Hollywood, the Dream Factory (2023)
An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers
Publisher: Dead Authors Society
A Short History of the Movies (2011)
by Gerald Mast and Bruce Kawin
Publisher: Pearson
Subject: History of Cinema
Howard Hawks, Storyteller (1982)
by Gerald Mast
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Director > Howard Hawks
The Comic Mind (2012)
Comedy and the Movies
by Gerald Mast
Publisher: Ward & Balkin Agency
Subject: Silent Cinema
Hollywood Directors 1941-1976 (1977)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Von (2004)
The Life & Films of Erich Von Stroheim
Publisher: Limelight
Subject: Director > Erich von Stroheim
The Astoria Studio and Its Fabulous Films (1983)
A Picture History with 227 Stills and Photographs
Publisher: Dover Publications
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Man You Loved To Hate (1983)
Erich Von Stroheim and Hollywood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Director > Erich von Stroheim
Hollywood Directors 1914-1940 (1976)
Dir. Richard Koszarski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Film (1976)
The Democratic Art: A Social History of American Film
by Garth Jowett
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Subject: Countries > United States
Hollywood Cameramen (1970)
Sources of Light
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
United Artists (1987)
The Company that Changed the Film Industry
by Tino Balio
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Studio > United Artists
American Film Music (1999)
Major Composers, Techniques, Trends, 1915-1990
by William Darby and Jack Du Bois
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The MGM Years (1971)
The Golden Age of Movie Musicals
by Lawrence B. Thomas and Jesse Kaye
Publisher: Columbia House
The MGM Stock Company (1977)
The Golden Era
by James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers
Publisher: Bonanza
Edith Head (2010)
The Fifty-Year Career of Hollywood's Greatest Costume Designer
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Others persons > Edith Head
Cities of Words (2004)
Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
Publisher: Belknap Press
Subject: Theory
Charles Chaplin's The Freak (2025)
The Story of an Unfinished Film
by David Robinson and Cecilia Cenciarelli
Publisher: Sticking Place Books
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2025)
Contemplation and Resistance
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Hurricane Billy (2026)
The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin
by Nat Segaloff
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Director > William Friedkin
Tim Burton (2026)
The Complete Unofficial Guide
Publisher: Hachette Mobius
Subject: Director > Tim Burton
The Working Director (2005)
How to Arrive, Survive and Thrive in the Director's Chair
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Final Cuts (2013)
The Last Films of 50 Great Directors
by Nat Segaloff
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Directors Close Up (2005)
Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America
Dir. Jeremy Kagan
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director
Directors Close Up 2 (2012)
Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America: 2006 - 2012
Dir. Jeremy Kagan
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director
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