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The Hollywood Standard (2021)
The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Naked Screenwriting (2021)
by Lew Hunter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Scripting Bollywood (2021)
Candid Conversations with Women Who Write Hindi Cinema
by Anubha Yadav
Publisher: Women Unlimited
Moments of Perception (2021)
Experimental Film in Canada
Dir. Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg
Publisher: Goose Lane
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Passion of the Mummy (2021)
Publisher: Cult Movies Press
Screen Interiors (2021)
From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias
Dir. Pat Kirkham and Sarah A. Lichtman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Subject: Technique > Set Design
Back From the Future (2021)
A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told
by Brad Gilmore
Publisher: Mango Publishing Group
Subject: One Film > Back to the Future
Secrets of the Force (2021)
The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Wars
by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Black Film British Cinema II (2021)
Dir. Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The Space of Sex (2022)
The Porn Aesthetic in Contemporary Film and Television
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Porn films
Makeup Artistry for Film and Television (2020)
Your Tools for Success On-Set and Behind-the-Scenes
Publisher: Routledge
The Film Experience (2020)
An Introduction
by Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Film Analysis
Cinematic Poetics of Guilt (2022)
Audiovisual Accusation as a Mode of Commonality
Publisher: De Gruyter
Subject: Theory
Screening Queer Memory (2022)
LGBTQ Pasts in Contemporary Film and Television
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Walls without Cinema (2022)
State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Supreme Actresses (2021)
Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Hollywood
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: Actor
Voiceover Narration (2021)
Creating Performances from the Inside Out
by Dian Perry
Publisher: Methuen Drama
The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia (2020)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: One Film > James Bond
Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age (2023)
Memorable Futures
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value (2022)
Dir. Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Sociology
Accent in North American Film and Television (2024)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Sociology
America on Film (2021)
Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies, 3rd Edition
by Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Sociology
Philosophy and the Moving Image (2021)
by Noel Carroll
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Theory
Musicals at the Margins (2022)
Genre, Boundaries, Canons
Dir. Julie Lobalzo Wright and Martha Shearer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Unscripted (2024)
The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams
Publisher: Penguin Books
Oscar Wars (2024)
A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Subject: Festivals
I'm Not a Film Star (2024)
David Bowie as Actor
Dir. Ian Dixon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Actor > David Bowie
New Perspectives on Early Cinema History (2024)
Concepts, Approaches, Audiences
Dir. Mario Slugan and Daniel Biltereyst
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Silent Cinema
Studio Ghibli (2024)
The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata
by Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc
Publisher: Kamera Books
What Do you Mean, Murder? (2024)
Clue and the Making of a Cult Classic
by John Hatch
Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press
Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film (2024)
Aesthetics and Narrative in the International Art Film
by Howard Finn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Burn It Down (2024)
Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
by Maureen Ryan
Publisher: Mariner Books
The Last Decade of Cinema (2024)
25 films from the Nineties
by Scott Ryan
Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015 (2017)
by Greg M. Colón Semenza and Bob Hasenfratz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The History of American Literature on Film (2021)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > United States
The History of French Literature on Film (2022)
Dir. Kate Griffiths and Andrew Watts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
My Favorite Horror Movie (2018)
48 Essays By Horror Creators On The Film That Shaped Them
Dir. Christian Ackerman
Publisher: Black Vortex Cinema
The Monzelli Tales (2021)
True Stories of a Film Buff Gone Wild
by John Gloske
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Subject: Various
Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind (2023)
Dir. David LaRocca
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Bleeding Skull (2021)
A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey
by Joseph A Ziemba, Annie Chol and Zack Carlson
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Irish Stereotype in American Cinema Stories of Violence (2021)
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Countries > United States
Divergent Tracks (2022)
How Three Film Communities Revolutionized Digital Film Sound
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Rethinking Holocaust Film Reception (2020)
A British Case Study
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Sociology
Ecomobilities (2021)
Driving the Anthropocene in Popular Cinema
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Sociology
Universal Studios Monsters (2021)
A Legacy of Horror
by Michael Mallory and Jason Blum
Publisher: Universe
Subject: On Films > Characters
Character (2021)
The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen
by Robert McKee
Publisher: Twelve
Circulating Fear (2023)
Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media
Publisher: Lexington Books
Lights, Camera, Witchcraft (2021)
A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Subject: On Films > Characters
Japanese Horror Culture (2023)
Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
Dir. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Subashish Bhattacharjee and Ananya Saha
Publisher: Lexington Books
Christmas on the Screen (2021)
Reviewing the Evolution of American Spirituality
Publisher: Pilgrim Press
Subject: Sociology
The World of James Bond (2021)
by Jeremy Black
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: One Film > James Bond
Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Cross-cultural Films (2022)
Interculturing Cinema
by Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith Williams
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Sociology
Netflix Nostalgia (2020)
Streaming the Past on Demand
Dir. Kathryn Pallister
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Economics
Gothic Afterlives (2021)
Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media
Dir. Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Publisher: Lexington Books
Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies (2021)
Film and Television Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film (2022)
Dir. Richard Walsh
Publisher: T&T Clark
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination (2021)
Introducing Jesus Movies, Christ Films, and the Messiah in Motion
by Richard Walsh and Jeffrey L. Staley
Publisher: T&T Clark
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema (2021)
Debates on Migration, Identity, and Finance
Dir. Ugur Baloglu and Yildiz Derya Birincioglu
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Sociology
Imagining Latin America (2021)
Magical Realism, Cosmopolitanism and the ¡Viva! Film Festival
by Nicola Jones
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Star Wars Battles that Changed the Galaxy (2021)
by Cole Horton, Jason Fry, Amy Ratcliffe and Chris Kempshall
Publisher: DK Publishing
Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner (2021)
A Feminist Analysis
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Ltd
Subject: Director > Ridley Scott
Hang 'Em High (2021)
110 Years of the Best Western Movie Posters, 1911-2020
Dir. Mark Fertig
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Shadow Cinema (2022)
The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films
Dir. James Fenwick, Kieran Foster and David Eldridge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: On Films > Lost/unmade films
The Lacanian Thing (2011)
Psychoanalysis, Postmodern Culture, and Cinema
Publisher: Cambria Press
Subject: Theory
The Films of Ousmane Sembène (2012)
Discourse, Culture, and Politics
Publisher: Cambria Press
Subject: Director > Ousmane Sembène
Performance in the Cinema of Hal Hartley (2011)
by Steven Rawle
Publisher: Cambria Press
Subject: Director > Hal Hartley
French War Films and National Identity (2024)
Publisher: Cambria Press
Screening Vienna (2024)
The City of Dreams in English-Language Cinema and Television
Publisher: Cambria Press
Locating Taiwan Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (2022)
Dir. Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang
Publisher: Cambria Press
Picturing Argentina (2022)
Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision
Publisher: Cambria Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
The Sex Goddess in American Film, 1930-1965 (2009)
Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield
Publisher: Cambria Press
The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien (2022)
Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion
Publisher: Cambria Press
Subject: Director > Hou Hsiao-hsien
Newhall's Walk of Western Stars (2021)
by Bill West, E. J. Stephens and Kim Stephens
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Cinema as a Political Media (2021)
by Lutz Klinkhammer and Clemens Zimmerman
Publisher: Heidelberg University
Subject: Sociology
Wonder, Horror, Mystery (2021)
Letters on Cinema and Religion in Malick, Von Trier, and Kieślowski
by Morgan Meis and J. M. Tyree
Publisher: Punctum Books
Subject: Sociology
Transformational Ethics of Film (2021)
Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philosophy Debate
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Theory
Experiencing Cinema (2022)
Participatory Film Cultures, Immersive Media and the Experience Economy
by Emma Pett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: General
Film and Cinema Spectatorship (2005)
Melodrama and Mimesis
by Jan Campbell
Publisher: Polity
Subject: Sociology
Youth on Screen (2021)
Representing Young People in Film and Television
Publisher: Polity
Subject: Sociology
Forms of the Cinematic (2021)
Architecture, Science and the Arts
Dir. Mark Breeze Format: Kindle Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
101 Things I Learned in Film School (2021)
by Neil Landau and Matthew Frederick
Publisher: Crown
Subject: Technique > All techniques
Looking at Movies (2025)
An Introduction to Film
by Dave Monahan and Richard Barsam
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co
Subject: Film Analysis