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Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art (2014)
Dir. Ian Buchanan and Lorna Collins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde (2014)
by Jennie Garth and Emily Heckman
Publisher: New American Library (NAL)
Subject: Actress > Jennie Garth
Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context (2014)
Dir. Ewa Mazierska and Michael Goddard
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Hollywood From Below the Line (2014)
A Prop Master's Perspective
Publisher: Robert Reed Publishers
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Anime Explosion! (2014)
The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation, Revised and Updated Edition
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
The Money Shot (2014)
A Comedy by Neil LaBute
by Neil LaBute
Publisher: Overlook
Subject: Director > Neil LaBute
Veronica (2020)
The Autobiography of Veronica Lake
Publisher: Dean Street Press
Subject: Actress > Veronica Lake
My Path and My Detours (1985)
An Autobiography
by Jane Russell
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Subject: Actress > Jane Russell
Strongheart (2014)
The World's First Movie Star Dog
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Subject: Actor > Strongheart
Citizen Hollywood (2014)
How the Collaboration between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics
Publisher: Thomas Dunne
Subject: General
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (2014)
A Queer Film Classic
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Subject: One Film > I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli (2015)
Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVII
Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Animal Stars (2014)
Behind the Scenes with Your Favorite Animal Actors
Publisher: New World Library
Subject: General
Morgan Freeman (2025)
The Definitive Biography of Hollywood's Voice of Wisdom and Resilience
Publisher: Independant
Subject: Actor > Morgan Freeman
Rock Hudson Biography (2023)
Behind the Camera Lens and Untold Stories
Publisher: Independant
Subject: Actor > Rock Hudson
Katharine Hepburn (2009)
A Life in Pictures by Pierre-Henri Verlhac
Dir. Pierre-Henri Verlhac
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Subject: Actress > Katharine Hepburn
Paul Newman (2006)
A Life in Pictures
Dir. Pierre-Henri Verlhac and Yann-Brice Dherbier
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Subject: Actor > Paul Newman
Clint Eastwood (2008)
A Life in Pictures
Dir. Pierre-Henri Verlhac
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Subject: Director > Clint Eastwood
The Ultimate Clint Eastwood Quiz Book (2025)
for those who have yet to know their limitations!
by Euan Alan Baird and Barry Robertson
Publisher: Planet Cool Books
Subject: Director > Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (2025)
A Biography: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Publisher: Independant
Subject: Director > Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (2026)
In His Own Words: Conversations with Jean-Paul Chaillet
Publisher: Gremese International
Subject: Director > Clint Eastwood
American Rebel (2009)
The Life of Clint Eastwood
by Marc Eliot
Publisher: Crown
Subject: Director > Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (2024)
A Life on Both Sides of the Camera
Publisher: Independant
Subject: Director > Clint Eastwood
Altman (2014)
Dir. Kathryn Reed Altman and Giulia d'Agnolo Vallan
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: Director > Robert Altman
All the Tricks of the Trade (2015)
Everything You Need to Know about Comedy: A Practical Handbook and Complete Performance Guide for Actors, Writers, and Directors
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Film Firsts (2014)
The 25 Movies That Created Contemporary American Cinema
by Ethan Alter
Publisher: Praeger
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Joss Whedon (2014)
The Biography
by Amy Pascale
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Director > Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait (2013)
From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Marvel's The Avengers
by David Lavery
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Subject: Director > Joss Whedon
Steven Spielberg and Duel (2014)
The Making of a Film Career
by Steven Awalt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
I Found It at the Movies (2014)
An Anthology of Film Poems
Dir. Ruth Roach Pierson
Publisher: Guernica
Subject: General
Desire Unlimited (2014)
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Publisher: Verso Books
Subject: Director > Pedro Almodóvar
70x70 (2014)
Unlicensed Preaching: A Life Unpacked in 70 Films
Publisher: Volcano Publishing
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Films of John Hughes (2014)
A History of Independent Screen Production in Australia
by John Cumming
Publisher: Atom
Subject: Director > John Hughes
The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause (2014)
Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock (2014)
by Debbie Olson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Secrets of Breaking into the Film and TV Business (2014)
Tools and Tricks for Today's Directors, Writers, and Actors – A Maverick Producer's Guide to Indie Success
by Dean Silvers
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Between the Scenes (2014)
What Every Film Director, Writer, and Editor Should Know About Scene Transitions
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Fetishism and Curiosity (2013)
Cinema and the Mind's Eye
by Laura Mulvey
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Sociology
A Mirror for England (2011)
British Movies from Austerity to Affluence
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television (2014)
Dir. Michael Stewart
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
1939 (2014)
The Making of Six Great Films from Hollywood's Greatest Year
Publisher: Craven Street Books
Subject: On Films > Per period
How to Make Exciting Money-Making Movies (2014)
Your Film School In A Book!
Dir. John Russo and Gary Lee Vincent
Publisher: Burning Bulb Publishing
Subject: Technique > All techniques
Location Filming in the Alabama Hills (2014)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Subject: Countries > United States
Directorial Self-Fashioning in American Horror Cinema (2014)
George A. Romero, Wes Craven, Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, and the Masters of Horror
by Ben Kooyman
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
The Encyclopedia of Epic Films (2014)
by Constantine Santas, James M. Wilson, Maria Colavito and Djoymi Baker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Art of the Documentary (2014)
Fifteen Conversations With Leading Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, and Producers
Publisher: New Riders
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Africa's Last Romantic (2014)
The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom
by Olga Brom Spencer and Glenn Reynolds
Publisher: Peter Lang
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Humor in Latin American Cinema (2015)
Dir. Juan Poblete and Juana Suárez
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Fear and the Muse Kept Watch (2015)
The Russian Masters from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein Under Stalin
by Andy McSmith
Publisher: The New Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
The Little Prince (2016)
The Art of the Movie
by Ramin Zahed
Publisher: Titan Books
Subject: One Film > The Little Prince
Orson Welles's Last Movie (2015)
The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
by Josh Karp
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: One Film > The Other Side of the Wind
But Enough About Me (2015)
A Memoir
by Burt Reynolds and Jon Winokur
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Subject: Actor > Burt Reynolds
Inside Art Direction (2019)
Interviews and Case Studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Documentary Case Studies (2014)
Top Filmmakers and the War Stories Behind Their Greatest Films
by Jeff Swimmer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Sharon Tate (2016)
A Life
by Ed Sanders
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Actress > Sharon Tate
Marc Karlin (2015)
Look Again
Dir. Holly Aylett
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Ten Arab Filmmakers (2015)
Political Dissent and Social Critique
Dir. Josef Gugler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Countries > Middle East
We Don't Need Roads (2015)
The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Subject: One Film > Back to the Future
Poitier Revisited (2014)
Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age
Dir. Ian Gregory Strachan and Mia Mask
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Actor > Sidney Poitier
In the Blink of an Eye (2001)
A Perspective on Film Editing, 2nd Edition
by Walter Murch
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Subject: Others persons > Walter Murch
Rebel without a Crew (1996)
Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Publisher: Plume
Subject: Director > Robert Rodriguez
Independent Ed (2015)
Inside a Career of Big Dreams, Little Movies, and the Twelve Best Days of My Life
by Edward Burns and Todd Gold
Publisher: Avery
Subject: Director > Edward Burns
Alfred Hitchcock (2015)
The Man Who Knew Too Much
by Michael Wood
Publisher: New Harvest
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (2014)
by Shelley Cobb
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Stanley Kubrick (2015)
New Perspectives
Dir. Tatjana Ljujic, Peter Kramer and Richard Daniels
Publisher: Black Dog Press
Subject: Director > Stanley Kubrick
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2015)
Essays and Interviews
Dir. Robert Cardullo
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin
Subject: Director > Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Rhetoric, Inc. (2020)
Ford's Filmmaking and the Rise of Corporatism
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Subject: Sociology
Revolt of the Filmmakers (2000)
The Struggle for Artistic Autonomy and the Fall of the Soviet Film Industry
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Imagining the Kibbutz (2015)
Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Subject: Sociology
Sinister Urge (2015)
The Life and Times of Rob Zombie
by Joel McIver
Publisher: Backbeat
Subject: Director > Rob Zombie
Gaze Regimes (2015)
Film and feminisms in Africa
Dir. Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann
Publisher: Wits University Press