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For My Eyes Only (2015)
Directing the James Bond Films: The Autobiography of John Glen
by John Glen and Marcus Hearn
Publisher: Signum
Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen (2015)
Dir. Klara Stephanie Szlezák and D. E. Wynter
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > Woody Allen
The Persona of Ingmar Bergman (2015)
Conquering Demons through Film
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Director > Ingmar Bergman
John Hughes (2015)
A Life in Film: The Genius Behind Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, and more
Publisher: Race Point Publishing
Subject: Director > John Hughes
William Cameron Menzies (2015)
The Shape of Films to Come
by James Curtis
Publisher: Pantheon
Subject: Director > William Cameron Menzies
Auditioning for Film and Television (2015)
Secrets from a Casting Director
by Nancy Bishop
Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Where Madness Lies (2025)
The Double Life of Vivien Leigh
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Subject: Actress > Vivien Leigh
The Stranger from Omaha (2025)
Travel Narratives in the Cinema of Alexander Payne
by Jason Sperb
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Director > Alexander Payne
Neglected Scorsese (2025)
Overlooked Films, Television Shows, and Commercials
Dir. Phillip Sipiora and Gary D. Rhodes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Martin Scorsese
Dreaming Down the Track (2025)
Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
The Giant Orson Welles (2025)
the Artist and the Shadow
Publisher: 23rd St.
Subject: Director > Orson Welles
Steve McQueen (2025)
Interviews
Dir. Geoffrey Lokke
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Steve McQueen (UK director)
The Many Worlds of Takahata Isao (2025)
Dir. Lindsay Coleman
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Subject: Director > Isao Takahata
King Creole (2026)
The Disputed Territories of 1950s American Youth Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: One Film > King Creole
The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2025)
Volume 2: Into the Multiverse
Dir. Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (2025)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Tricksters of Gotham (2025)
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: One Film > Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises
Producing Film and Television (2025)
First In, Last Out
by Steve Pinhay and Alexandra Bentley
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Economics
Directing the Story (2025)
Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding for Animation, Comics and Live Action
Publisher: CRC Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Taking Back Desire (2025)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
The Representation of Vikings in Cinema and Television (2025)
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The New Italian Cinema of Precarity (2025)
Publisher: Peter Lang
Hausa Cinema of Northern Nigeria (2025)
Cultural Imperialism and Censorship
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Stanislavsky and Screen Actor Training (2025)
Dir. Evi Stamatiou and Sharon Marie Carnicke
Publisher: Routledge
Frightful Harvest (2026)
Food, Agriculture and Landscape in Folk Horror Films
by Keene Short
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Daughter of Daring (2025)
The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Subject: Actress > Helen Gibson
Thoughtful Cinema (2025)
Illustrating Philosophy Through Film
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Theory
Cinema of Crushing Motherhood (2025)
A New Feminist Cinema
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Sociology
Have Yourself a Merry Legal Christmas (2025)
Laws and Justice in Holiday Movies and Television Shows
by David Krell
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television (2026)
Dir. Carole M. Cusack and Venetia Laura Delano Robertson
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Sociology
Elemental World Cinema (2025)
Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air
Dir. Tiago de Luca and Matilda Mroz
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Sociology
Streaming The Sandman (2025)
Essays on the Netflix Series
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: One Film > The Sandman (TV Series)
Frank Lloyd Wright in the Movies (2025)
Iconic California Sites on Film
Publisher: The History Press
Subject: Technique > Set Design
100 Cult Films (2026)
The Sequel
by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Mainstreaming Palestine (2025)
Cinematic Activism and Solidarity Politics in the United States
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Countries > Middle East
Ecological And Environmental Turns (2025)
(Re)mapping China's Sociocultural Landscape through Ecocinema
by Shuqin Cui
Publisher: Cambria Press
How are Movies Made? (2024)
Technology Book for Kids
Publisher: Baby Professor
Subject: Technique > All techniques
The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature (2025)
Representations from 1932 to 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: On Films > Characters
Archipelagic Cinemas (2025)
Screening Southeast Asian Modernity
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
International Relations and the Development of Korea's Film Industry (2025)
by Jimmyn Parc and Stephen Ranger
Publisher: Routledge
Levelling Up the Screen Industries? (2025)
by Mark McKenna
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
South Asia in Alternative Cinema(s) (2025)
Dir. Vivek Sachdeva, Hariprasad Athanickal and Chandrakant A. Langare
Publisher: Routledge India
Subject: Countries > South Asia
Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era (2026)
Envisioning a National Identity
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Subject: Countries > Middle East
Film, In Theory (2026)
The BFI Education Department and Film Culture
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: General
Soviet Rock on Screen (2026)
The Life, Death, and Resurrection of a Film Genre
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill (2025)
The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: One Film > Better Call Saul (TV Series)
Theology in Avatar (2025)
The Last Airbender: Essays on Eastern Influences and Western Perspectives
Dir. Anthony G. Cirilla and Michael Riggins
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Single-Camera Video (2025)
From Pre- to Postproduction
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Technique > All techniques
Encyclopedia of Television Noir, 1949-2024 (2026)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Historical Women on Television (2025)
Portrayals of 120 Notable Figures in Scripted Programs
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor
Sacred Sisterhoods (2025)
A Celebration of Black Women's Friendships on Television and in Film
Dir. Imani M. Cheers
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Subject: Sociology
Is There Life Outside the Box? (2017)
An Actor Despairs
Publisher: John Blake
Subject: Actor > Peter Davison
Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies (2017)
by Nick Frost
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Subject: Actor > Nick Frost
Elizabeth Taylor (2012)
There is Nothing Like a Dame
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Subject: Actress > Elizabeth Taylor
Love Triangle (2015)
Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman & Nancy Davis - All the Gossip Unfit to Print
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Subject: Actor > Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman
Peter O'Toole (2015)
Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Subject: Actor > Peter O'Toole
Lana Turner (2017)
Hearts and Diamonds Take All
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Subject: Actress > Lana Turner
Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds (2018)
Princess Leia & Unsinkable Tammy in Hell
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Subject: Actress > Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds
James Dean (2016)
Tomorrow Never Comes
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Subject: Actor > James Dean
They Call Me Supermensch (2016)
A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock'n'Roll
by Shep Gordon
Publisher: Ecco
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (2016)
by Amy Schumer
Publisher: Gallery Books
Subject: Actress > Amy Schumer
The Eternal Party (2016)
Understanding My Dad, Larry Hagman, the TV Star America Loved to Hate
by Kristina Hagman and Elizabeth Kaye
Publisher: Thomas Dunne
Subject: Actor > Larry Hagman
You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams (2016)
My Life in Stories and Pictures
by Alan Cumming
Publisher: Rizzoli
Subject: Actor > Alan Cumming
The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Sinatra (2016)
by David Wills
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Actor > Frank Sinatra
In the Country We Love (2016)
My Family Divided
by Diane Guerrero and Michelle Burford
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Subject: Actress > Diane Guerrero
Where Am I Now? (2016)
True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
by Mara Wilson
Publisher: Penguin Books
Subject: Actress > Mara Wilson
The Real James Dean (2016)
Intimate Memories from Those Who Knew Him Best
Dir. Peter L. Winkler
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Actor > James Dean
I Had a Ball (2016)
My Friendship With Lucille Ball
Publisher: iUniverse
Subject: Actress > Lucille Ball
There Goes My Social Life (2016)
From Clueless to Conservative
by Stacey Dash
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Subject: Actress > Stacey Dash
A Little Thing Called Life (2016)
On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Subject: Actress > Linda Thompson
Miss Fortune (2016)
Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay
Publisher: Plume
Subject: Actress > Lauren Weedman
Approval Junkie (2016)
Adventures in Caring Too Much
by Faith Salie
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Subject: Actress > Faith Salie
Audrey and Givenchy (2016)
A Fashion Love Affair
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Actress > Audrey Hepburn