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Monster (1997)
Living Off the Big Screen
Publisher: Random House
Subject: One Film > Up Close & Personal
I Seem to Live (2022)
The New York Diaries, 1969–2011: Volume 2
by Jonas Mekas and Anne König
Publisher: Spector Books
Subject: Director > Jonas Mekas
I Seem to Live (2020)
The New York Diaries, 1950–1969: Volume 1
by Jonas Mekas and Anne König
Publisher: Spector Books
Subject: Director > Jonas Mekas
The Illusion of Life (1995)
Disney Animation
by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston
Publisher: Disney Editions
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
Negative Space (1998)
Manny Farber On The Movies
by Manny Farber
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Subject: General
Bring on the Empty Horses (2006)
by David Niven
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Subject: Actor > David Niven
Shooting to Kill (1998)
How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter
by Christine Vachon and David Edelstein
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
Killer Life (2007)
How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond
by Christine Vachon and Austin Bunn
Publisher: Limelight
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
Leading Lady (2017)
Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Subject: Studio > Paramount, 20th Century Fox
GWTW (1973)
The Making of Gone with the Wind
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Subject: One Film > Gone with the Wind
The Fixers (2004)
Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine
by E.J. Fleming
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Making of Casablanca (2002)
Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: One Film > Casablanca
The Making of The Wizard of Oz (2013)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: One Film > The Wizard of Oz
The Conversations (2004)
Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Others persons > Walter Murch
Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers (2012)
The Next Generation
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Director
Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age (2006)
At the American Film Institute
Dir. George Stevens Jr.
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Director
The Lonely Life (1962)
An Autobiography
by Bette Davis
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Subject: Actress > Bette Davis
Do the Right Thing (1989)
by Spike Lee and Lisa Jones
Publisher: Fireside Books
Subject: One Film > Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee's Gotta Have It (1987)
Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking
by Spike Lee
Publisher: Fireside Books
Subject: One Film > She's Gotta Have It
Afterglow (2002)
A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Subject: On Films > Movie reviews
Rainbow (1975)
The stormy life of Judy Garland
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Subject: Actress > Judy Garland
Howard Hawks (1997)
American Artist
Dir. Jim Hillier and Peter Wollen
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Director > Howard Hawks
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1997)
by Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson
Publisher: Hyperion
Subject: Director > Martin Scorsese
Thinking In Pictures (2003)
The Making Of The Movie Matewan
by John Sayles
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pauline Kael (2012)
A Life in the Dark
by Brian Kellow
Publisher: Penguin Books
Subject: On Films > Movie reviews
85 Years of the Oscar (2013)
The Official History of the Academy Awards
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Subject: Festivals
Storynomics (2018)
Story-Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World
by Robert McKee and Tom Gerace
Publisher: Twelve
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Dialogue (2016)
The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
by Robert McKee
Publisher: Twelve
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Story (1997)
Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
by Robert McKee
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Beyond the Stars (1995)
The Memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein
Dir. Richard Taylor
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Director > Sergei Eisenstein
Beyond the Stars (2019)
Part 2: The True Paths of Discovery
Publisher: Seagull Books
Subject: Director > Sergei Eisenstein
Beyond the Stars (2018)
Part 1: The Boy from Riga
Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher: Seagull Books
Subject: Director > Sergei Eisenstein
Hollywood Rajah (1961)
The Life and Time of Louis B. Mayer
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.
Subject: Others persons > Louis B. Mayer
The Great Films (1967)
Fifty Golden Years of Motion Pictures
Publisher: Putnam
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Off With Their Heads (1972)
A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood
Publisher: Macmillan
Subject: Others persons > Frances Marion
My Last Sigh (2013)
The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel
by Luis Buñuel
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subject: Director > Luis Buñuel
The Agency (1995)
William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business
by Frank Rose
Publisher: HarperCollins
The Last Mogul (1998)
Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood
Publisher: Crown
Subject: Others persons > Lew Wasserman
The Magic Factory (1973)
How MGM Made An American in Paris
by Donald Knox
Publisher: Praeager Publishers
Subject: One Film > An American in Paris
The Dark Side of Genius (1983)
The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
by Donald Spoto
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
The Citizen Kane Book (1971)
Raising Kane and The Shooting Script
by Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz and Pauline Kael
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Subject: One Film > Citizen Kane
Five Came Back (2014)
A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
by Mark Harris
Publisher: Penguin Press
Subject: Director > John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, George Stevens
The Measure of a Man (2007)
A Spiritual Autobiography
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Subject: Actor > Sidney Poitier
Life Itself (2011)
A Memoir
by Roger Ebert
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: On Films > Movie reviews
Hit and Run (1996)
How Jon Peters and Peter Guber took Sony for a ride in Hollywood
by Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Cinema of Outsiders (1999)
The Rise of American Independent Film
by Emanuel Levy
Publisher: New York University (NYU) Press
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
Who the Devil Made It (1997)
Conversations with legendary film directors
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Director
The Pleasure Dome (1980)
Graham Greene - The Collected Film Criticism 1935-1940
Dir. Graham Greene and John Russell Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: On Films > Movie reviews
Ernst Lubitsch (1978)
A Guide to References and Resources
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy (1983)
by William Paul
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch (2001)
Laughter in Paradise
by Scott Eyman
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Subject: Director > Ernst Lubitsch
CIty of Nets (2014)
A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's – A Classic Cultural History of the Golden Age and Its Decline
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Subject: History of Cinema
When the Shooting Stops… the Cutting Begins (1996)
by Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
The Devil's Candy (1991)
The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Subject: One Film > The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Celluloid Closet (1987)
Homosexuality in the Movies
by Vito Russo
Publisher: Harper and Row
Subject: Sociology
Final Cut (1999)
Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film that Sank United Artists
by Steven Bach
Publisher: Newmarket Press
Subject: One Film > Heaven's Gate
Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide (2015)
From the Silent Era Through 1965
Publisher: Plume
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2017)
The Modern Era
Publisher: Plume
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
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