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Taiwanese-Language Cinema (2024)
Rediscovered and Reconsidered
by Chris Berry, Wafa Ghermani, Corrado Neri and Ming-yeh Rawnsley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany (2006)
Text as Spectacle
Dir. Gail Finney
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week (1999)
52 Classic Films for One Full Year
Publisher: Random House
Subject: On Films > Film selections
The Killing of the Unicorn (1984)
Dorothy Stratten, 1960-1980
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Subject: Actress > Dorothy Stratten
Picture Shows (1975)
Peter Bogdanovich on the movies
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Subject: Director > Peter Bogdanovich
The Moviemakers (1973)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Director > Edwin S. Porter, David W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Robert Flaherty, Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Capra, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick
Wilde in the Dream Factory (2024)
Decadence and the American Movies
by Kate Hext
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Master Space (1992)
Film Images of Capra, Lubitsch, Sternberg, and Wyler
Publisher: Praeger
Subject: Director > Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, William Wyler
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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