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Ambiguity and Film Criticism (2022)
Reasonable Doubt
by Hoi Lun Law
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Film Analysis
Like Brothers (2021)
by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Subject: Actor > Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
Animated Performance (2021)
Bringing Imaginary Animal, Human and Fantasy Characters to Life
by Nancy Beiman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television (2022)
Chronotopes of Anxiety, Depression, Expulsion/Extinction
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Script Development (2022)
Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives
Dir. Craig Batty and Stayci Taylor
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Silent Renoir (2022)
Philosophy and the Interpretation of Early Film
by Colin Davis
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > Jean Renoir
'Grease Is the Word' (2021)
Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon
Dir. Oliver Gruner and Peter Kramer
Publisher: Anthem Press
My Lunch With A Hollywood Agent (2021)
Publisher: Regent Press
Movie Quotes for Special Occasions (2020)
Toasts and Tributes for Weddings, Graduations, Birthdays and All of Life's Special Moments
Publisher: TMA Press
Subject: On Films > Lines and dialogues
An Introduction to Film Analysis (2020)
Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film
by Michael Ryan and Melissa Lenos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Film Analysis
Urban Horror (2020)
Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility
Publisher: Duke University Press
The Algerian War in Film Fifty Years Later, 2004–2012 (2020)
by Anne Donadey
Publisher: Lexington Books
Tropical Dream Palaces (2020)
Cinema in Colonial West Africa
by Odile Goerg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Toward Fewer Images (2018)
The Work of Alexander Kluge
Publisher: The MIT Press
Subject: Director > Alexander Kluge
The Filming of Modern Life (2013)
European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s
Publisher: The MIT Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
On the Eve of the Future (2017)
Selected Writings on Film
Publisher: The MIT Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
On the Wings of Hypothesis (2020)
Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema
Dir. Annette Michelson and Rachel Churner
Publisher: The MIT Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Replications (1995)
A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Science Fiction Double Feature (2021)
The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text
Dir. J. P. Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Your Career in Animation (2021)
How to Survive and Thrive
Publisher: Allworth
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Manchester by the Sea (2021)
A Screenplay
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: One Film > Manchester by the Sea
Screening Soviet Nationalities (2021)
Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Freedom and Vengeance on Film (2021)
Precarious Lives and the Politics of Subjectivity
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Wes Anderson's Symbolic Storyworld (2021)
A Semiotic Analysis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Wes Anderson
Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution (2020)
Anti-Colonialism, Independence and Internationalism in Filmmaking, 1968-1991
by Ros Gray
Publisher: James Currey
The Cinema of Hong Kong (2002)
History, Arts, Identity
Dir. Poshek Fu and David Desser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom (2020)
Decades of Decline, 1945–1965
by Sam Manning
Publisher: University of London Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Movie Money (2020)
understanding Hollywood's (creative) accounting practices
by Bill Daniels, David Leedy, Steven D. Sills and Peter Klass
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Subject: Economics
Filmspanism (2022)
A critical companion to the study of Spanish cinema
by Juan F. Egea
Publisher: Routledge
Movies and Moral Dilemma Discussions (2020)
A Practical Guide to Cinema Based Character Development
Dir. Stewart Waters and William B. Russell III
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Subject: Sociology
Balkan Cinema and the Great Wars (2020)
Dir. Adrian Silvan Ionescu, Marian Ţuţui and Savas Arslan
Publisher: Peter Lang
Philippine Cinema 1897–2020 (2022)
Dir. Gaspar Vibal, Dennis Villegas and Teddy Co
Publisher: Vibal Foundation
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
Archiving the Past (2026)
Women's Film History in France, 1927–1978
Publisher: University of California Press
Philippine Cinematic Art (2022)
by Andrea L. Peterson, Gaspar A. Vibal, Christopher A. Datol and Nicanor C. Lajom
Publisher: Vibal Foundation
Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia
Reading the Muslim on Celluloid (2020)
Publisher: Primus Books
Interpreting Cinema (2020)
Adaptations, Intertextualities, Art Movements
by Jasbir Jain
Publisher: Rawat Publications
Subject: Film Analysis
Bollywood Does Battle (2021)
The War Movie and the Indian Popular Imagination
by Samir Chopra
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Gene Kelly (2020)
The Making of a Creative Legend
by Earl Hess and Pratibha A. Dabholkar
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Subject: Director > Gene Kelly
I'm Your Huckleberry (2021)
A Memoir
by Val Kilmer
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: Actor > Poldark (TV Series)
A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away (2021)
My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More
by Paul Hirsch
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Others persons > Paul Hirsch
Media Production (2021)
A Practical Guide to Radio, TV and Film
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Economics
Comparative Cinema (2022)
Late and Last Things in Literature and Film
by Paul Coates
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Theory
Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games (2022)
by Tarja Laine
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: One Film > The Hunger Games
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood (2022)
The Rise of the Cine-fille
by Mary Harrod
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Creepy Bitches (2021)
Essays On Horror From Women In Horror
Dir. Alyse Wax and Rebekah McKendry
Publisher: BearManor Media
The Basics of Filmmaking (2020)
Screenwriting, Producing, Directing, Cinematography, Audio, & Editing
by Blain Brown
Publisher: Routledge
The Legacy of the New Wave in French Cinema (2019)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Spiritual Sensations (2022)
Cinematic Religious Experience and Evolving Conceptions of the Sacred
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Love and Loss in Hollywood (2021)
Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin
Dir. Cooper C. Graham and Christoph Irmscher
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
The Press Gang (2020)
Writings on Cinema from New York Press, 1991-2011
by Godfrey Cheshire, Matt Zoller Seitz, Armond White and Jim Colvill
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Subject: General
The Many Lives of It (2020)
Essays on the Stephen King Horror Franchise
Dir. Ron Riekki
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Duras/Godard Dialogues (2020)
by Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Godard
Publisher: Film Desk Books
Subject: Director > Jean-Luc Godard, Marguerite Duras
The Philosophy of Werner Herzog (2020)
Dir. M. Blake Wilson and Christopher Turner
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Director > Werner Herzog
Ovid on Screen (2025)
A Montage of Attractions
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Genre > Historical films
John Badham On Directing (2020)
Notes from the Set of Saturday Night Fever, War Games, and More
by John Badham
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Planet Wax (2020)
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Soundtracks on Vinyl
by Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas
Publisher: 1984 Publishing
Renoir (2021)
Father and Son
by Eddy Simon and Jak Lemonnier
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Subject: Director > Jean Renoir
Blade Runner 2049 (2020)
Interlinked - The Art
Publisher: Titan Books
Subject: One Film > Blade Runner 2049
Design for Doctor Who (2021)
Vision and Revision in Science Fiction Television
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: One Film > Doctor Who (TV Series)
The Female Gaze in Documentary Film (2022)
An International Perspective
by Lisa French
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
First-Time Filmmaker F-Ups (2011)
Navigating the Pitfalls to Making a Great Movie
Publisher: Focal Press
Sherlock in the Seventies (2021)
A Wild Decade of Sherlock Holmes Films
Publisher: The Visible Spectrum
Performing Femininity (2021)
Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
A Century of Stop Motion Animation (2008)
From Melies to Aardman
by Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Aardman Animations (2021)
Beyond Stop-Motion
Dir. Annabelle Honess Roe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Studio > Aardman Animations
Wim Wenders (2021)
Making Films that Matter
Dir. Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Wim Wenders
Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games (2021)
by Christy Marx
Publisher: CRC Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
It All Began With A Scream (2021)
Publisher: BearManor Media
Fathers on Film (2021)
Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s Hollywood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
The Cinema of the Precariat (2021)
The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World
by Tom Zaniello
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Fat on Film (2021)
Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Dramatic Effects with a Movie Camera (2021)
by Gail Segal and Sheril Antonio
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Traversing the Fantasy (2021)
The Dialectic of Desire/Fantasy and the Ethics of Narrative Cinema
by Sandra Meiri and Odeya Kohen-Raz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
After Kubrick (2021)
A Filmmaker's Legacy
Dir. Jeremi Szaniawski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Stanley Kubrick
Grateful American (2021)
A Journey from Self to Service
by Gary Sinise and Marcus Brotherton
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Subject: Actor > Gary Sinise
Phantom Lady (2021)
Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Others persons > Joan Harrison
British Cinemas And Their Audiences (2021)
by J. P. Mayer
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. (2021)
Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
by Sam Wasson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Subject: Actress > Audrey Hepburn
Smartphone Filmmaking (2021)
Theory and Practice
by Max Schleser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
Lugosi (2023)
The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula
by Shadmi Koren
Publisher: Life Drawn
Subject: Actor > Bela Lugosi
The Many Lives of James Bond (2021)
How the Creators of 007 Have Decoded the Superspy
by Mark Edlitz
Publisher: Lyons Press
Subject: One Film > James Bond
Speed Write Your First Screenplay (2021)
From Blank Spaces to Great Pages in Just 90 Days
by Mark Victor Hansen and Steve Gottry
Publisher: G&D Media
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
The Filming of Gone With the Wind (1998)
by Herb Bridges
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Subject: One Film > Gone with the Wind
David Lynch (2022)
Blurred Boundaries
by Anne Jerslev
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Director > David Lynch
Ian Fleming's Inspiration (2021)
The Truth Behind the Books
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Subject: One Film > James Bond