The latest books (old or new)
added to the database
Stars of Walt Disney Productions (2022)
by Mark Arnold
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
The Reenactment in Contemporary Screen Culture (2022)
Performance, Mediation, Repetition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Nothing to Fear (2023)
Alfred Hitchcock And The Wrong Men
Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press
Subject: One Film > The Wrong Man
Rooney Eats It! (2023)
A Brit's Take on Pimps, Child Deaths and Other Fun Movie Stuff
Publisher: Independant
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Truly, Madly (2023)
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Actor > Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh
Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture (2023)
Envisioning the Nation
by Sheldon Lu
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema (2024)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Everything I Know About Life I Learned From James Bond (2023)
by John L. Flynn and Bob Blackwood
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Subject: One Film > James Bond
Transcendence and Film (2023)
Cinematic Encounters with the Real
Dir. David P. Nichols
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Theory
Dark Forces at Work (2023)
Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
Dir. Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher: Lexington Books
La vie est à nous (1986)
French Cinema of the Popular Front 1935-1938
Dir. Ginette Vincendeau and Keith Reader
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Journeys of Desire (2006)
Dir. Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
Film/Literature/Heritage (2001)
A Sight and Sound Reader
Dir. Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
The Companion to French Cinema (1996)
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Stars and Stardom in French Cinema (2000)
Publisher: Continuum
Brigitte Bardot (2014)
The Life, the Legend, the Movies
Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
Subject: Actor > Brigitte Bardot
The Virgin Suicides (2025)
Dir. Sofia Coppola
Publisher: Mack Books
Subject: One Film > The Virgin Suicides
To the End of the World (2021)
Travels with Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Abacus
Subject: Actor > Rupert Everett
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
The Screenplay
by Aaron Sorkin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: One Film > The Trial of the Chicago 7
Alright, Alright, Alright (2021)
The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Subject: One Film > Dazed and Confused
Reel Resistance (2023)
The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno
by Melissa Thackway and Jean-Marie Teno
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Subject: Director > Jean-Marie Teno
Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema (2020)
by Lisa Odham Stokes and Rachel Braaten
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2020)
Wonder and Religion in American Cinema
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Subject: Sociology
Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal (2021)
Dir. Mariana Liz and Hilary Owen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Docs That Rock, Music That Matters (2020)
Publisher: Otherworld Cottage Industries
Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons (2020)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct (2020)
Lessons from a Life Behind the Camera
by Ken Kwapis
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Subject: Director > Ken Kwapis
She Animates (2020)
Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation
by Lora Mjolsness and Michele Leigh
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Taken by the Muse (2020)
On the Path to Becoming a Filmmaker
by Anne Wheeler
Publisher: Newest Press
Subject: Director > Anne Wheeler
Chasing The Light (2021)
Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
by Oliver Stone
Publisher: Mariner Books
Subject: Director > Oliver Stone
Digital Filmmaking For Kids For Dummies (2015)
Publisher: For Dummies
Subject: Technique > All techniques
Breaking into Acting For Dummies (2021)
by Larry Garrison and Wallace Wang
Publisher: For Dummies
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Cinemasaurus (2020)
Russian Film in Contemporary Context
Dir. Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorova
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film (2022)
by Sarah Hill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Running the Show (2019)
The Essential Guide to Being a First Assistant Director
by Liz Gill
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother (2021)
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Director > Barry Sonnenfeld
Directing (2020)
Film Techniques and Aesthetics
by Michael Rabiger and Mick Hurbis-Cherrier
Publisher: Routledge
A Patchwork Quilt (2020)
A Collage of My Creative Life
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: Director > Sai Paranjpye
Forever in My Veins (2021)
How Film Led Me to the Mysterious World of the African Shaman
Publisher: O-Books
Subject: Director > Lionel Friedberg
R.W. Fassbinder Film Stills (2020)
1966-1982
by John Waters, Hans Helmut Prinzler and Peter Handke
Publisher: Schirmer Mosel
(in English and German)
Subject: Director > Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cinematography for Directors (2020)
A Guide for Creative Collaboration
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
What's the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay (2020)
Publisher: Routledge
Hope for Film (2020)
A Producer's Journey Across the Revolutions of Indie Film and Global Streaming
by Ted Hope and Anthony Kaufman
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
Becoming an Actor's Director (2019)
Directing Actors for Film and Television
by Regge Life
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Entering the Frame (2023)
Cinema and History in the Films of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: Director > Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Character is Structure (2023)
The Insider's Guide to Screenwriting
by Ted Wilkes and Phil Hughes
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Nahid Persson Sarvestani (2025)
Towards A Liquid Authorship
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Nahid Persson
The Wes Anderson Collection (2023)
The French Dispatch: The French Dispatch
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: One Film > The French Dispatch
An Editor's Burial (2021)
Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines
Dir. Wes Anderson and David Brendel
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Subject: One Film > The French Dispatch
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval (2023)
A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West
Dir. Wes Anderson and Jake Perlin
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Subject: One Film > Asteroid City
The Monster Movies of Universal Studios (2023)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Truth in Visual Media (2023)
Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics
Dir. Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Theory
Yippee Ki-Yay, Motherf*cker! (2023)
A Trivia Guide to Die Hard
by Mark Leslie
Publisher: Stark Publishing
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (2019)
The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation
by Joseph Lanza
Publisher: Skyhorse
Subject: One Film > The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Chain Saw Confidential (2023)
How We Made The World's Most Notorious Horror Movie
Publisher: Dark Ink
Subject: One Film > The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Thinking in Images (2006)
Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Marlene Dietrich
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Theory
Thinking About Film (2019)
A Critical Perspective
by Dean Duncan
Publisher: Pearson
Subject: Film Analysis
Noël Carroll and Film (2020)
A Philosophy of Art and Popular Culture
by Mario Slugan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Thinking Through Film (2011)
Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies
by Damian Cox and Michael Levine
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Theory
Georges Didi-Huberman and Film (2022)
The Politics of the Image
by Alison Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Roland Barthes and Film (2021)
Myth, Eroticism and Poetics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Stanley Cavell and Film (2021)
Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Robert Pippin and Film (2023)
Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism
by Dominic Lash
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Private Faces and Public Places (2022)
The Autobiography
Publisher: Sceptre
Subject: Actor > Siân Phillips
Forever Young (2022)
A Memoir
by Hayley Mills
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Actor > Hayley Mills
The Great Peace (2022)
A Memoir
by Mena Suvari
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Actor > Mena Suvari
Dervish Dust (2021)
The Life and Words of James Coburn
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Subject: Actor > James Coburn
Sunshine Girl (2022)
An Unexpected Life
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Subject: Actor > Julianna Margulies
The Beauty of Living Twice (2022)
by Sharon Stone
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Subject: Actor > Sharon Stone
Dorothy Dandridge (2021)
A Biography
by Donald Bogle
Publisher: Amistad
Subject: Actor > Dorothy Dandridge
Yours Cruelly, Elvira (2022)
Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Actor > Cassandra Peterson