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Rebel Without a Cause (2025)
by Glyn Davis
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: One Film > Rebel Without a Cause
Beyond Zombie Politics (2025)
The Art of George A. Romero's Cinema
Dir. Adrienne Boutang, Claire Cornillon and David Roche
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > George A. Romero
Joan Crawford (2025)
A Woman's Face
by Scott Eyman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: Actress > Joan Crawford
Disney's Animated Classics (2025)
A Comprehensive Guide
Publisher: White Owl
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
The Companion Guide to The Godfather Trilogy (2025)
Betrayal, Loyalty, and Family
Publisher: White Owl
Subject: One Film > The Godfather
How Walt Disney Changed Animation Forever (2025)
Publisher: White Owl
Subject: Others persons > Walt Disney
I Still Am a Woman, Pissed Off & Curious (2025)
by Su Friedrich
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Subject: Director > Su Friedrich
F1 The Movie (2025)
The Making of the Most Authentic Racing Film of All Time
by Mark Salisbury and Chris Medland
Publisher: Melcher Media
Subject: One Film > F1 The Movie
Comebacks (2025)
The Return of the Aging Film Star
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Sociology
Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture (2025)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: One Film > Black Orpheus
Stranger Things (2025)
The Complete Scripts, Season 3
Collective
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Subject: One Film > Stranger Things (TV Series)
Billy Wilder and Some Like It Hot (2025)
The Genesis of America's Greatest Screen Comedy
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: One Film > Some Like It Hot
Contemporary Chilean Filmmaking (2025)
The Aesthetics of Trauma
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Jean-Luc Godard's Unmade and Abandoned Projects (2025)
by Michael Witt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Jean-Luc Godard
Pipeline Cinema (2025)
The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq
by Mona Damluji
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
In the Scene (2025)
Steve McQueen
Dir. Jen Francis and Cheryl Robson
Publisher: Supernova Books
Subject: Director > Steve McQueen (UK director)
The Guide for Every Screenwriter (2019)
From Synopsis to Subplots: The Secrets of Screenwriting Revealed
Publisher: Independant
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Steve Mcqueen (2017)
The Salvation of an American Icon
by Greg Laurie and Marshall Terrill
Publisher: American Icon Press
Subject: Actor > Steve McQueen
The Fondas (2023)
Henry, Jane, & Peter - Triple Exposure
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Subject: Actor > Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda
Henry Fonda (2022)
Volume One (1905-1960) of a Two-Part Biography
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Subject: Actor > Henry Fonda
Kirk Douglas More Is Never Enough (2019)
Oozing Masculinity, a Young Horndog Sets Out to Conquer Hollywood & To Bed Its Leading Ladies
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Subject: Actor > Kirk Douglas
Giant (2018)
Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film
by Don Graham
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
My Girls (2018)
A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
by Todd Fisher
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Subject: Actress > Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds
The Cinema of Things (2017)
Globalization and the Posthuman Object
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain (2017)
Recontextualizing Cultural Anxiety
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Not a Number (2011)
Patrick Mcgoohan - a Life
by Rupert Booth
Publisher: Supernova Books
Subject: Actor > Patrick McGoohan
Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond (2019)
by Lisa Funnell and Klaus Dodds
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: One Film > James Bond
Prosthetic Make-Up Artistry for Film and Television (2019)
by Clare Ramsey
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Studying Horror Cinema (2019)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Evangelion Illustrations (2019)
2007-2017
Collective
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Subject: One Film > Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV Series)
Secular Magic and the Moving Image (2019)
Mediated Forms and Modes of Reception
by Max Sexton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
The Little Book of Marilyn (2019)
Inspiration from the Goddess of Glam
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Actress > Marilyn Monroe
The Way We Work (2019)
On the Job in Hollywood
Dir. Bruce Ferber
Publisher: Fulcourt Press
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Dziga Vertov (2018)
Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896–1921)
by John MacKay
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Subject: Director > Dziga Vertov
Live Cinema (2019)
Cultures, Economies, Aesthetics
Dir. Sarah Atkinson and Helen W. Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Girl on the Balcony (2018)
Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet
by Olivia Hussey and Alexander Martin
Publisher: Kensington
Subject: Actress > Olivia Hussey
The Disney Version (2019)
The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
Screenwriting is Filmmaking (2019)
The Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
A Book about the Film Monty Python's Life of Brian (2018)
All the References from Assyrians to Zeffirelli
by Darl Larsen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: One Film > Life of Brian
The Simpsons' Beloved Springfield (2019)
Essays on the TV Series and Town That Are Part of Us All
Dir. Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: One Film > The Simpsons (TV Series)
If Chins Could Kill (2002)
Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Publisher: L.A. Weekly Books
Subject: Actor > Bruce Campbell
Hail to the Chin (2017)
Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor
by Bruce Campbell and Craig Sanborn
Publisher: Titan Books
Subject: Actor > Bruce Campbell
A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (2015)
All the References from African Swallows to Zoot
by Darl Larsen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: One Film > Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The John Wayne Companion (2019)
A comprehensive guide to Duke facts, trivia, movies, achievements and more
Collective
Publisher: Media Lab Books
Subject: Actor > John Wayne
The Science of Monsters (2019)
The Truth about Zombies, Witches, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Legendary Creatures
by Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence
Publisher: Skyhorse
Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne (2017)
A Life in Several Acts
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Others persons > Robert Hofler
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off (2018)
And Other Lessons in Life
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Actor > Michael Caine
The World According to Star Wars (2016)
Publisher: Dey Street Books
British Rural Landscapes on Film (2016)
Dir. Paul Newland
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Striking Distance (2019)
Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Screens Producing & Media Operations (2019)
Advanced Practice for Media Server and Video Content Preparation
by Laura Frank
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Economics
Theorizing Stupid Media (2020)
De-Naturalizing Story Structures in the Cinematic, Televisual, and Videogames
by Aaron Kerner and Julian Hoxter
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
The Dharma of Star Wars (2015)
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
New York's Animation Culture (2020)
Advertising, Art, Design and Film, 1939–1940
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > United States
Son of a Junkman (2019)
My Life from the West Bottoms of Kansas City to the Bright Lights of Hollywood
by Ed Asner, Samuel Warren Joseph and Matthew Seymour
Publisher: Quincessential
Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English (2019)
Dir. Peter L. Barta and Phil Powrie
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Film Analysis
Teachers and Teaching on Stage and on Screen (2019)
Dramatic Depictions
Dir. Diane Conrad and Monica Prendergast
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Sociology
Animation and Advertising (2020)
Dir. Malcolm Cook and Kirsten Moana Thompson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Of Mud and Flame (2019)
A Penda's Fen Sourcebook
Dir. Matthew Harle and James Machin
Publisher: The MIT Press
Subject: One Film > Penda's Fen
Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema (2021)
Dir. Elizabeth Osborne and Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Abjection Incorporated (2020)
Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence
Dir. Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
Beyond observation (2020)
A history of authorship in ethnographic film
by Paul Henley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Design in Motion (2020)
Applying Design Principles to Filmmaking
by Penny Hilton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > Set Design
Anything You Can Imagine (2019)
Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth
by Ian Nathan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: One Film > The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Long Shadow of the Past (2020)
Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture
Publisher: Camden House
The History of Genocide in Cinema (2020)
Atrocities on Screen
Dir. Jonathan Friedman and William Hewitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Films of Lenny Abrahamson (2020)
A Filmmaking of Philosophy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Lenny Abrahamson
Cinema and Unconventional Warfare in the Twentieth Century (2020)
Insurgency, Terrorism and Special Operations
by Paul B. Rich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
The Lady from the Black Lagoon (2019)
Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Subject: Others persons > Milicent Patrick
Mission (2016)
Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe
Publisher: GoodKnight Books
Subject: Actor > James Stewart
Art History for Filmmakers (2020)
The Art of Visual Storytelling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
The Films of Aki Kaurismäki (2020)
Ludic Engagements
Dir. Thomas Austin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Aki Kaurismäki
Movie Baking (2020)
The Indie Work-At-Home-Parent Filmmaker
Publisher: LSE Cinema Books
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
The Filmmaker's Eye (2019)
The Language of the Lens: The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
Inferno (2020)
A Genealogy of 1960s Trash Culture
by Ken Hollings
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Chinese Independent Animation (2020)
Renegotiating Identity in Modern China
by Wenhai Zhou
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Norma Jean (2020)
The Life of Marilyn Monroe
Publisher: Turner Publishing
Subject: Actress > Marilyn Monroe
Loner at the Ball (2022)
The Life of Andy Warhol
Publisher: Turner Publishing
Subject: Director > Andy Warhol