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Hitchcock's Appetites (2016)
The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Authoring Hal Ashby (2016)
The Myth of the New Hollywood Auteur
by Aaron Hunter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Mount Etna (2016)
the desert and the scream
Publisher: 40due Edizioni
(in Italian and English)
Subject: Director > Pier Paolo Pasolini
Shoot Like Scorsese (2016)
The Visual Secrets of Shock, Elegance, and Extreme Character
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Subject: Director > Martin Scorsese
Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope (2015)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Darren Aronofsky
You Only Live Twice (2016)
Sex, Death, and Transition
by Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom
Publisher: Coach House Books
Subject: Director > Mike Hoolboom, Chase Joynt
Music, Masti, Modernity (2016)
The Cinema of Nasir Husain
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Subject: Director > Nasir Husain
Alice & Eiffel (2016)
A New History of Early Cinema and the Love Story Kept Secret for a Century
Publisher: Independant
Moguls, Monsters and Madmen (2016)
An Uncensored Life in Show Business
by Barry Avrich
Publisher: ECW Press
Subject: Director > Barry Avrich
Hollywood Pioneer (2016)
The Life and Times of Hal Roach
Publisher: Leprosy Association of Guru Nanak
Subject: Others persons > Hal Roach
Movie Night Trivia (2016)
Over 400 Blockbuster Brain-Benders for Film Buffs of All Ages!
by Robb Pearlman and Shane Carley
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
Buccaneer (2016)
James Stuart Blackton and the Birth of American Movies
by Donald Dewey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Director > J. Stuart Blackton
Hollywood Producers Directory (2017)
A Specialized Resource for Producers and Filmmakers
Dir. Dinah Perez and Jesse Douma
Publisher: F+W Media
Hollywood Screenwriting Directory (2015)
A Specialized Resource for Discovering Where & How to Sell Your Screenplay
Collective
Publisher: F+W Media
The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan (2016)
Dir. Elia Kazan and Albert J. Devlin
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subject: Director > Elia Kazan
Coen (2016)
Framing Religion in Amoral Order
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Subject: Director > Coen Brothers
Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock (2016)
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears (2016)
by Lesley Brill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Stephen Frears
Ousmane Sembene (2015)
Writer, Filmmaker, and Revolutionary Artist
by Ernest Cole and Oumar Cherif Diop
Publisher: Africa World Press
Subject: Director > Ousmane Sembène
Dune (2024)
Exposures
by Josh Brolin and Greig Fraser
Publisher: Insight
Subject: One Film > Dune (Villeneuve)
The Films of Paul Thomas Anderson (2025)
Publisher: Independant
Subject: Director > Paul Thomas Anderson
The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia (2016)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
The Greatest Movies of All Time (2016)
Dir. Lorri Lynn
Publisher: Herron & Murray
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Best Movies of All Time in a Sentence (2023)
Top 1000 Films That You Should Watch Immediately Simply Explained
Collective
Publisher: Independant
Subject: On Films > Film selections
A Year of Movies (2015)
365 Films to Watch on the Date They Happened
by Ivan Walters
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: On Films > Film selections
The Ultimate Woody Allen Film Companion (2014)
by Jason Bailey
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Subject: Director > Woody Allen
A Companion to Woody Allen (2013)
Dir. Peter J. Bailey and Sam B. Girgus
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Director > Woody Allen
Woody Allen (2015)
A Retrospective
by Tom Shone
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Subject: Director > Woody Allen
Cross-Channel Perspectives (2008)
The French Reception of British Cinema
by Leila Wimmer
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Francois Truffaut (2000)
Correspondence 1945-1984
by Gilles Jacob
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
Spielberg, Truffaut & Me (2003)
An Actor's Diary
by Bob Balaban
Publisher: Titan Books
Subject: One Film > Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cutting the Body (2000)
Representing Woman in Baudelaire's Poetry, Truffaut's Cinema, and Freud's Psychoanalysis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement
by Nate Parker
Publisher: 37 Ink
Subject: One Film > The Birth of a Nation (2016)
Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2016)
Inside the Creation of a Modern Fairy Tale
by Guillermo del Toro, Nick Nunziata and Mark Cotta Vaz
Publisher: Harper
Subject: One Film > Pan's Labyrinth
Pan's Labyrinth (2019)
The Labyrinth of the Faun
by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: One Film > Pan's Labyrinth
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (2016)
The Film That Revived Hindi Cinema
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Subject: One Film > Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
Ghosts from Our Past (2016)
Both Literally and Figuratively: The Study of the Paranormal
by Erin Gilbert, Abby L. Yates and Andrew Shaffer
Publisher: Ebury Press
Subject: One Film > Ghostbusters (2016)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
by Paul Laverty and Ken Loach
Publisher: Independant
Subject: One Film > I Daniel Blake
Welcome to Marwencol (2015)
by Mark Hogancamp and Chris Shellen
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Subject: One Film > Welcome to Marwen
The Art of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
by Leah Gallo
Publisher: Quirk Books
Subject: One Film > Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
King of Jazz (2016)
Paul Whiteman's Technicolor Revue
Dir. James Layton
Publisher: Media History
Subject: One Film > King of Jazz
The Art and Making of Independence Day - Resurgence (2016)
by Simon Ward
Publisher: Titan Books
Subject: One Film > Independence Day: Resurgence
The Art of The Jungle Book (2016)
by Ellen Wolff
Publisher: Insight
Subject: One Film > Le Livre de la jungle (2016)
Rogue One - A Star Wars Story (2017)
The Official Collector's Edition
Collective
Publisher: Titan Books
Subject: One Film > Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Art of Rogue One - A Star Wars Story (2016)
by Josh Kushins
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: One Film > Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars - Rogue One (2016)
The Ultimate Visual Guide
Publisher: DK Publishing
Subject: One Film > Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Nice Guys (2016)
From Script to Screen
by Shane Black
Publisher: Rizzoli
Subject: One Film > The Nice Guys
Alice's Adventures (2016)
The Complete Visual Guide
by Elizabeth Dowsett and Laura Gilbert
Publisher: DK Publishing
Subject: One Film > Alice Through the Looking Glass
Batman V Superman - Dawn Of Justice (2016)
Tech Manual
by Adam Newell and Sharon Gosling
Publisher: Titan Books
Subject: One Film > Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies (2016)
Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Nanook of the North - From 1922 to Today (2016)
The Famous Arctic Documentary and Its Afterlife
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: One Film > Nanook of the North
Batman v Superman - Dawn of Justice (2016)
The Art of the Film
by Peter Aperlo
Publisher: Titan Books
Subject: One Film > Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Big Trouble in Little China (2019)
Legacy Edition Book Three
Collective
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Subject: One Film > Big Trouble In Little China
Big Trouble in Little China (2019)
Legacy Edition Book Two
Collective
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Subject: One Film > Big Trouble In Little China
Big Trouble in Little China (2019)
Legacy Edition Book One
Collective
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Subject: One Film > Big Trouble In Little China
The Official Making Of Big Trouble In Little China (2017)
by Tara Bennett
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Subject: One Film > Big Trouble In Little China
The Art of Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
by Emily Haynes
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Subject: One Film > Kubo and the Two Strings
Auteurs and Authorship (2008)
A Film Reader
Dir. Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Theory
The Pather Panchali Sketchbook (2016)
by Satyajit Ray
Publisher: Harper Collins India
Subject: One Film > Pather Panchali
Young Frankenstein (2016)
The Story of the Making of the Film
by Mel Brooks
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Subject: One Film > Young Frankenstein
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
The Collector's Edition Book
Collective
Publisher: Titan Books
Subject: One Film > Star Trek Beyond
Lacombe Lucien (2016)
The Screenplay
by Louis Malle
Publisher: Other Press
Subject: One Film > Lacombe Lucien
Screenwriting is Rewriting (2016)
The Art and Craft of Professional Revision
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Writing the Comedy Movie (2015)
by Marc Blake
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Being Professional (2016)
A Master Guide to the Do's and Don'ts of Screenwriting
by Adam Coplan
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
The Coffee Break Screenwriter (2016)
Writing Your Script Ten Minutes at a Time
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
I Liked It, Didn't Love It (2016)
Screenplay Development From the Inside Out
by Rona Edwards and Monika Skerbelis
Publisher: Edwards Skerbelis Entertainment
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Sell Your Story in A Single Sentence (2016)
Advice from the Front Lines of Hollywood
Publisher: Countryman Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Beat By Beat (2016)
A Cheat Sheet for Screenwriters
by Todd Klick
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
A Companion to the War Film (2016)
Dir. Douglas A. Cunningham and John C. Nelson
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Snuff (2016)
Real Death and Screen Media
by Neil Jackson, Shaun Kimber, Johnny Walker and Thomas Joseph Watson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Making Sense of Cinema (2017)
Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship
Dir. Carrielynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
From Nuremberg to Hollywood (2016)
The Holocaust and the Courtroom in American Fictive Film
by James Jordan
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Plant Horror (2017)
Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
Dir. Dawn Keetley and Angela Tenga
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Framing Law and Crime (2016)
An Interdisciplinary Anthology
Dir. Caroline Joan Kay S. Picart
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Subject: Genre > Gangster films
The Apocalypse in Film (2015)
Dystopias, Disasters, and Other Visions about the End of the World
Dir. Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Angela Krewani
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
The Multilingual Screen (2016)
New Reflections on Cinema and Linguistic Difference
Dir. Tijana Mamula
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Judas Iscariot, Damned or Redeemed (2016)
A Critical Examination of the Portrayal of Judas in Jesus Films (1902-2014)
Publisher: T&T Clark
Subject: Sociology
How the Films of Pedro Almodovar Draw Upon and Influence Spanish Society (2012)
Bilingual Essays on His Cinema
by Maria R. Matz and Carole Salmon
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
(in English and Spanish)
Subject: Director > Pedro Almodóvar
Mapping Cinematic Norths (2016)
International Interpretations in Film and Television
Dir. Julia Dobson and Jonathan Rayner
Publisher: Peter Lang