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Elia Kazan (1997)
A Life
by Elia Kazan
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Subject: Director > Elia Kazan
Life, The Movie (2000)
How Entertainment Conquered Reality
by Neal Gabler
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
Subject: Sociology
Walt Disney (2007)
The Triumph of the American Imagination
by Neal Gabler
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subject: Others persons > Walt Disney
An Empire of Their Own (1989)
How the Jews Invented Hollywood
by Neal Gabler
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subject: History of Cinema
Adventures in the Screen Trade (1989)
A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Barrymore (2026)
The Spectacular, Tumultuous Life of America's Prince of Players
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actor > John Barrymore
A Century of Hitchcock (2026)
The Man, the Myths, the Legacy
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Sydney Pollack (2026)
Collected Interviews
Dir. Patrick McGilligan and Paul Cronin
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Sydney Pollack
On the Set of Forrest Gump (2026)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: One Film > Forrest Gump
There's No Going Back (2025)
The Life and Work of Jonathan Demme
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Jonathan Demme
Ethel Barrymore (2026)
Shy Empress of the Footlights
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Ethel Barrymore
Richard Fleischer (2026)
Journeyman
by Jason A. Ney
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Richard Fleischer
Just Tell Me When to Cry (1993)
A Memoir
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Subject: Director > Richard Fleischer
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (1999)
How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
(previous edition)
Subject: Countries > United States
Martial Arts Ecology (2026)
Aesthetics, Philosophy and Cinematic Mediation
by Wayne Wong
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Martial Arts
Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film (2026)
Witnessing Plasticity
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis (2026)
Dir. Calum Waddell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Herschell Gordon Lewis
Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide (2026)
by Julian Koch
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Dreamer's Path (2026)
Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor
by Brent Simon
Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press
Subject: Director > David Lynch
They Kill People (2026)
Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
by Kirk Ellis
Publisher: High Road Books
Subject: One Film > Bonnie and Clyde
The First Movie Studio in Texas (2026)
Gaston Méliès's Star Film Ranch
by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and Frank Thompson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Documentary Objectives (2026)
Filming Africa from Colonialism to Independence
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Feminist Visions (2026)
Tracing Feminist Epistemologies in Contemporary Film and Television
Dir. Hélène Charlery and Cristelle Maury
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Global Screen Worlds (2026)
Conversations across Cinema Cultures
Dir. Lindiwe Dovey, Kate Taylor-Jones and Georgia Thomas-Parr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Radical Embodiment on Film (2026)
Time and the Cinematic Body
Dir. Louis Bayman and Davina Quinlivan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Classic Monsters, Modern Art (2026)
20th Century Horror in 21st Century Illustration
Publisher: Insight
The Last Kings of Hollywood (2026)
Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
by Paul Fischer
Publisher: Celadon Books
Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg
Tony Stark, Odysseus, and the Myths Behind Marvel (2026)
Ancient Heroes in the Modern World
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Subject: Studio > Marvel Studios
Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy (2026)
Architecture, Innovation, Labour, Politics, 1930-60
by Sarah Street, Tim Bergfelder, Richard Farmer and Eleanor Halsall
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Exposing the Film Apparatus (2025)
Global Laboratory Perspectives
Dir. Giovanna Fossati and Annie van den Oever
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
The World of Black Film (2026)
A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films
by Ashley Clark
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Subject: On Films > Film selections
The Fundamentals of Film Making (2026)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > All techniques
Terence Davies Screenplays (2026)
Volume I: Autobiography and Biography
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Director > Terence Davies
Robert Bresson (2026)
Cinematic Style as Philosophy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Director > Robert Bresson
Harmony and Dissent (2010)
Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Detecting Canada (2014)
Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film
Dir. Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
The Technique of Film and Video Editing (2026)
History, Theory, and Practice
by Ken Dancyger
Publisher: Routledge
The Heart of Your Script (2026)
The Insider's Guide to Writing the Difficult Middle Section of a Screenplay
by Ted Wilkes and Phil Hughes
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction (2024)
Stories of Repentance and Defiance
Dir. James E. Bennett and Marguerite Johnson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
The Monomyth Reboot (2026)
A Transmodern Update for Mythopoeia
by Nadia Salem
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Film Analysis
War Faces on Screen (2026)
Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation
Dir. Katy Parry and Mani Sharpe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
A Star Is Reborn (2026)
The Most Filmed Hollywood Story of Love Found and Lost
Publisher: Citadel Press
Subject: One Film > A Star Is Born
The Haunted Present (2026)
Slavic Neo-Noir Cinema and Television
Dir. Elena Prokhorova, Alexander Prokhorov and Rimgaila Salys
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Agnès Varda (2025)
Tales of images
Dir. Luca Malavasi and Anna Masecchia
Publisher: Mimesis International
Subject: Director > Agnès Varda
Theatre to Cinema (1998)
Stage Pictorialism and the Early Feature Film
by Benjamin Robert Brewster and Lea Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Stage to screen (1949)
: Theatrical method from Garrick to Griffith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Hollywood Gothic (2004)
The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
From Stage to Screen (2015)
A Theatre Actor's Guide to Working on Camera
by Bill Britten
Publisher: Methuen Drama
The Classic American Novel and the Movies (1977)
Dir. Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzhin
Publisher: Ungar
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
The Work of Dorothy Arzner (1975)
Towards a feminist cinema
Dir. Claire Johnston and Pam Cook
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Director > Dorothy Arzner
From Sambo to Superspade (1975)
The Black experience in motion pictures
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Subject: Sociology
Kings of the Bs (1975)
Working within the Hollywood system : An anthology of film history and criticism
Dir. Todd McCarthy and Charles Flynn
Publisher: Dutton
All the Stars in Heaven (1982)
The Story of Louis B. Mayer and M.G.M.
by Gary Carey
Publisher: Robson Books
Subject: Others persons > Louis B. Mayer
King Cohn (2000)
The Life and Times of Harry Cohn
by Bob Thomas
Publisher: New Millenium
Subject: Others persons > Harry Cohn
The Innocent Eye (2023)
The Life of Robert J. Flaherty
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Subject: Director > Robert Flaherty
Writers in Hollywood (1990)
1915-1951
by Ian Hamilton
Publisher: Harper and Row
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Some Time in the Sun (1976)
The Hollywood Years of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley & James Agee
by Tom Dardis
Publisher: Scribner
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
The Modern American novel and the movies (1978)
Dir. Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin
Publisher: Ungar
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
We're in the Money (1992)
Depression America and It's Films
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Subject: Countries > United States
The Celluloid Weapon (1972)
Social comment in the American film
Publisher: Beacon Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Hollywood Social Problem Film (1981)
Madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties
by Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Selznick (2001)
The Man Who Produced Gone With the Wind
by Bob Thomas
Publisher: New Millenium
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
Showman (1992)
The Life of David O. Selznick
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
Memo from David O. Selznick (2000)
by David O. Selznick and Rudy Behlmer
Publisher: Random House
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick's Hollywood (1980)
by Ronald Haver
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
Goldwyn (1976)
A Biography of the Man Behind the Myth
by Arthur Marx
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co
Subject: Others persons > Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (1956)
The Producer and his Films
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Subject: Others persons > Samuel Goldwyn
A New Deal in Entertainment (1983)
Warner Brothers in the 1930's
by Nick Roddick
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Studio > Warner Bros
Inside Warner Brothers (1985)
(1935-1951)
by Rudy Behlmer
Publisher: Viking
Subject: Studio > Warner Bros
Judy Garland (2025)
The Voice of MGM
by Scott Brogan
Publisher: Lyons Press
Subject: Actress > Judy Garland
Judy (2011)
A Legendary Film Career
by John Fricke
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: Actress > Judy Garland
Judy Garland on Judy Garland (2014)
Interviews and Encounters
Dir. Randy L. Schmidt
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Actress > Judy Garland
Power and Paranoia (1986)
History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940-1950
by Dana Polan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Running Away From Myself (1969)
A dream portrait of America drawn from the films of the forties
Publisher: Grossman Publishers
Subject: Sociology
Violent America (1971)
The movies, 1946-1964
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Subject: Genre > Gangster films
Biblical Epics (2009)
Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Subject: Genre > Historical films
The Immediate Experience (2002)
Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Sociology
American Vision (1996)
The Films of Frank Capra
by Ray Carney
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Director > Frank Capra
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