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The Lubitsch touch (1978)
A critical study
Publisher: Dover Publications
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory (2004)
Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Director > Edmund Goulding
You Never Know (2026)
A Memoir
by Tom Selleck and Ellis Henican
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Subject: Actor > Tom Selleck
The Art of Looking in Hitchcock's Rear Window (2004)
Publisher: Limelight
Subject: One Film > Rear Window
Jean Arthur (2004)
The Actress Nobody Knew
by John Oller
Publisher: Limelight
Subject: Actress > Jean Arthur
You Thought I Was Dead (2026)
My Life of Celebrities, Sex, and Champagne
Publisher: Permuted Press
Subject: Actress > Mamie Van Doren
Third Real (2026)
Conscious Creation Goes Back to the Movies
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Subject: Sociology
Reframing Margaret Thatcher (2026)
Genre, form, and the making of post-Thatcherism in British film and TV
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Get the Picture?! (2026)
Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Subject: Sociology
Consciously Created Cinema (2026)
The Movie Lover's Guide to the Law of Attraction
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Subject: Sociology
Scarface (2018)
A Novel of Power, Violence, and the Rise of Organized Crime
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
The Celluloid Muse (1969)
Hollywood directors speak
by Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Subject: Director
Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen (1999)
The dramaturgy of disavowal
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: One Film > Die Nibelungen
Fritz Lang (1981)
A Guide to References and Resources
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Subject: Director > Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang (1981)
The Image and the Look
Dir. Stephen Jenkins
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Director > Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang's Metropolis (2000)
Cinematic Views of Technology and Fear
Dir. Michael Minden and Holger Bachmann
Publisher: Camden House
Subject: One Film > Metropolis
Marilyn / André de Dienes (2026)
Dir. Steve Crist and Shirley T. Ellis de Dienes
Publisher: Taschen
Subject: Actress > Marilyn Monroe
A Journey into Darkness (1980)
The Art of James Whale's Horror Films
by Reed Ellis
Publisher: Ayer
Subject: Director > James Whale
James Whale (1995)
A Biography or the Would-Be Gentleman
by Mark Gatiss
Publisher: Cassell
Subject: Director > James Whale
Les Parents Terribles (1994)
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Subject: One Film > The Terrible Parents
Three screenplays (1972)
Orpheus, The Eternal Return, Beauty and the Beast
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Grossman Publishers
Subject: One Film > The Eternal Return, Orpheus, Beauty and the Beast
The Holy Terrors (1966)
(Les Enfants terribles)
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: New Directions
Subject: One Film > The Terrible Children
Letter to the Americans (2022)
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: New Directions
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
The Difficulty of Being (2013)
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Melville House
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Two Screenplays (1968)
The Blood of a Poet / The Testament of Orpheus
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Orion Press
Subject: One Film > The Blood of a Poet, Testament of Orpheus
Erotic Drawings by Jean Cocteau (1999)
Dir. Annie Guedras
Publisher: Taschen
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Erotica (2002)
Drawings by Jean Cocteau
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
My Contemporaries (2006)
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Opium (2013)
The Diary of His Cure
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre (2008)
Cocteau, Oedipus, and the Monster
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Women and Images of Men in Cinema (2015)
Gender Construction in La Belle et la Bete by Jean Cocteau
Dir. Andreas Hamburger
Publisher: Karnac Books
Subject: One Film > Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau and The Testament of Orpheus (2001)
Publisher: Viking
Subject: One Film > Testament of Orpheus
Sunshine at Midnight (1975)
Memories of Picasso and Cocteau
Publisher: Macmillan
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
The Untutored Eye (1986)
Childhood in the Films of Cocteau, Cornell, and Brakhage
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau, Joseph Cornell, Stan Brakhage
Professional Secrets (1970)
An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau and His World (1987)
An Illustrated Biography
Publisher: Vendome Press
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
An Impersonation of Angels (1968)
A Biography of Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Viking
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau and André Gide (1973)
an abrasive friendship
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau (1966)
The history of a poet's age
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Scandal & parade (1957)
The theater of Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
The Art of Cinema (2000)
A Collection of Cocteau's Writings on Film
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau (1969)
An investigation into his films and philosophy
by Rene Gilson
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Past Tense (1988)
The Cocteau Diaries, Vol. 2
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Past Tense (1987)
The Cocteau Diaries, Volume One
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
(previous edition)
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
The Journals of Jean Cocteau (1964)
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Indiana University Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau and His Films of Orphic Identity (1975)
Publisher: Art Alliance Press
Subject: One Film > Testament of Orpheus, Orpheus
Jean Cocteau (1968)
The Man & the Mirror
by Elizabeth Sprigge and Jean-Jacques Kihm
Publisher: Coward-McCann
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau and the French Scene (1984)
Collective
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Cocteau's World (1972)
An anthology of writings
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Owen
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Esthetic of Jean Cocteau (1978)
Publisher: University of New Hampshire
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Cocteau (1986)
Les Enfants Terribles
by Robin Buss
Publisher: Foyles
Subject: One Film > The Terrible Children
Cocteau on the film (1972)
Conversations with Jean Cocteau
by Jean Cocteau
Publisher: Dover Publications
Subject: Director > Jean Cocteau
Van Dyke and the Mythical City Hollywood (1948)
Publisher: Murray & Gee
Subject: Director > W.S. Van Dyke
W.S. Van Dyke's Journal (1996)
White Shadows in the South Seas (1927-1928) and other Van Dyke on Van Dyke
Dir. Rudy Behlmer
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > W.S. Van Dyke
Between Action and Cut (1985)
Five American Directors
Dir. Frank Thompson
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > William K. Howard, Victor Fleming, Roland West, Roawland Brown, Charles Barton
Images of Unrest (2026)
Documentary Film and Political Violence
by Nikolaj Lübecker and Daniele Rugo
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Sociology
Cinema on Sundays (2026)
Legalising British Cinema Exhibition
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Klossowski, Pasolini, Gurrola (2026)
A Genealogy of Late Surrealist Film Theory
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Theory
The Invention of the Spectator (2026)
How has Early film Spectatorship shaped Audience and Reception Theory:Selected Writings 1910-1920
Publisher: Independant
Subject: Silent Cinema
Red Velvet Seat (2006)
Women's Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema
Dir. Antonia Lant
Publisher: Verso Books
Subject: Silent Cinema
Douglas Fairbanks (2002)
The Making of a Screen Character
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Subject: Actor > Douglas Fairbanks
D. W. Griffith (2002)
American Film Master
by Iris Barry
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
Adventures with D.W. Griffith (1988)
by Karl Brown
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1980)
Publisher: Ayer
Subject: One Film > The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation (2014)
How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War
by Dick Lehr
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Subject: One Film > The Birth of a Nation (2016)
The Film that Transformed America (2006)
D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
Publisher: Independant
Subject: One Film > The Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Company (2006)
by Cooper C. Graham, Steven Higgins, Elaine Mancini and João Luiz Vieira
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith, His Life and Work (1972)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
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