Publisher: University of California Press - series: Non-Series (277&nbsp;books)

Subject: Others persons > Ursula Parrott

Captain of Her Soul (2022)

The Life of Marion Davies

by Lara Gabrielle

Subject: Actress > Marion Davies

Chuck Jones (2022)

A Flurry of Drawings

by Hugh Kenner

Subject: Director > Chuck Jones

Lois Weber in Early Hollywood (2015)

by Shelley Stamp

Subject: Director > Lois Weber

Myrna Loy (2011)

The Only Good Girl in Hollywood

by Emily W. Leider

Subject: Actress > Myrna Loy

The Passion of Montgomery Clift (2010)

by Amy Lawrence

Subject: Actor > Montgomery Clift

Irving Thalberg (2009)

Boy Wonder to Producer Prince

by Mark A. Vieira

Subject: Others persons > Irving Thalberg

Brass Diva (2009)

The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman

by Caryl Flinn

Subject: Actress > Ethel Merman

Douglas Fairbanks (2008)

by Jeffrey Vance

Subject: Actor > Douglas Fairbanks

The Animated Man (2007)

A Life of Walt Disney

by Michael Barrier

Subject: Others persons > Walt Disney

The Final Victim of the Blacklist (2006)

John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten

by Gerald Horne

Subject: Others persons > John Howard Lawson

The First Lady of Hollywood (2005)

A Biography of Louella Parsons

by Samantha Barbas

Subject: Others persons > Louella Parsons

A Very Dangerous Citizen (2002)

Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left

by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner

Subject: Director > Abraham Polonsky

A Heart at Fire's Center (2002)

The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann

by Steven C. Smith

Subject: Others persons > Bernard Herrmann

Lillian Gish (2002)

Her Legend, Her Life

by Charles Affron

Subject: Actress > Lillian Gish

Truffaut (2000)

A Biography

by Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana

Subject: Director > François Truffaut

Hollywood Diva (2000)

A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald

by Edward Baron Turk

Subject: Actress > Jeanette MacDonald

Without Lying Down (1998)

Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

by Cari Beauchamp

Subject: Others persons > Frances Marion

When I'm Bad, I'm Better (1997)

Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment

by Marybeth Hamilton

Subject: Actress > Mae West

A Heart at Fire's Center (1991)

The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann

by Steven C. Smith

Publisher: University of California Press
(previous edition)

Subject: Others persons > Bernard Herrmann

John Ford (1988)

The Man and His Films

by Tag Gallagher

Subject: Director > John Ford

Ozu (1977)

His Life and Films

by Donald Richie

Subject: Director > Yasujirô Ozu

Jean Renoir (1974)

by Raymond Durgnat

Subject: Director > Jean Renoir

• Encyclopedias (3 books)(0 book)

Chinese Movie Magazines (2018)

From Charlie Chaplin to Chairman Mao, 1921-1951

by Paul Fonoroff

Subject: Countries > China

The World History of Animation (2011)

by Stephen Cavalier

Subject: Genre > Animation

The Ciné Goes to Town (1998)

French Cinema 1896 - 1914

Publisher: University of California Press
Series: Non-Series
2nd Revised edition

Subject: Silent Cinema

• Essays (23 books)(0 book)

Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction (2025)

by Becca Voelcker

Subject: Sociology

Anita Loos Rediscovered (2025)

Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

by Anita Loos, Cari Beauchamp and Mary Anita Loos

Subject: Others persons > Anita Loos

Derivative Media (2024)

How Wall Street Devours Culture

by Andrew Dewaard

Subject: Economics

Depth Effects (2023)

Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

by Brooke Belisle

Subject: Theory

What Film Is Good For (2023)

On the Values of Spectatorship

by Julian Hanich and Martin P. Rossouw

Subject: Sociology

Specworld (2023)

Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries

by John Thornton Caldwell

Subject: Economics

At the Edges of Sleep (2022)

Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators

by Jean Ma

Subject: Genre > Experimental

The Lure of the Image (2021)

Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera

by Daniel Morgan

Subject: Theory

Transcendental Style in Film (2018)

Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer

by Paul Schrader

Subject: Theory

An Invention without a Future (2014)

Essays on Cinema

Subject: General

Ex-Cinema (2012)

From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video

by Akira Mizuta Lippit

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Funny Pictures (2011)

Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood

Dir. Daniel Goldmark and Charles Keil

Subject: Genre > Animation

Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray (2010)

by Keya Ganguly

Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray

The Tactile Eye (2009)

Touch and the Cinematic Experience

by Jennifer M. Barker

Subject: Theory

Film as Art (2006)

50th Anniversary Printing

by Rudolf Arnheim

Subject: Theory

What Is Cinema? Volume II (2004)

by André Bazin

Subject: Theory

What Is Cinema? Volume I (2004)

by André Bazin

Subject: Theory

For Documentary (1999)

Twelve Essays

by Dai Vaughan

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Hard Core (1999)

Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded edition

by Linda Williams

Subject: Genre > Porn films

The Memory of Tiresias (1998)

Intertextuality and Film

by Mikhail Iampolski

Subject: Theory

Movies as Politics (1997)

Subject: Sociology

American Monroe (1995)

The Making of a Body Politic

by S. Paige Baty

Subject: Actress > Marilyn Monroe

A Certain Realism (1993)

Making Use of Pasolini's Film Theory and Practice

by Maurizio Viano

Subject: Director > Pier Paolo Pasolini

• Film Reviews (5 books)(0 book)

Arab Modernism as World Cinema (2020)

The Films of Moumen Smihi

by Peter Limbrick

Subject: Director > Moumen Smihi

The Black Hole of the Camera (2012)

The Films of Andy Warhol

by J. J. Murphy

Subject: Director > Andy Warhol

The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1999)

by Donald Richie

Publisher: University of California Press
Series: Non-Series
3rd Revised edition

Subject: Director > Akira Kurosawa

The Films of Oshima Nagisa (1998)

Images of a Japanese Iconoclast

by Maureen Turim

Subject: Director > Nagisa Ôshima

The films of Orson Welles (1970)

by Charles Higham

Subject: Director > Orson Welles

• Studies (166 books)(0 book)

Pipeline Cinema (2025)

The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq

by Mona Damluji

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Tales of Militant Chemistry (2025)

The Film Factory in a Century of War

by Alice Lovejoy

Subject: History of Cinema

Toward a More Perfect Rebellion (2025)

Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A.

by Josslyn Jeanine Luckett

Subject: Sociology

Where Is Abbas Kiarostami? (2025)

Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy

by Hamid Dabashi

Subject: Director > Abbas Kiarostami

Antifascism and the Avant-Garde (2025)

Radical Documentary in the 1960s

by Julia Alekseyeva

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Global Movie Magazine Networks (2025)

by Eric Hoyt and Kelley Conway

Subject: On Films > Movie magazines

Kartemquin Films (2024)

Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy

by Patricia Aufderheide

Subject: Genre > Politics

Romancing Yesenia (2024)

How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture

by Masha Salazkina

Subject: One Film > Yesenia

Historical Turns (2024)

Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism

by Nicholas Baer

Subject: Silent Cinema

Unhomed (2024)

Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

by Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Subject: Sociology

Hollywood Remaking (2024)

How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture

by Kathleen Loock

Subject: Economics

Directed by Yasujiro Ozu (2024)

by Shiguéhiko Hasumi

Subject: Director > Yasujirô Ozu

Mobile Hollywood (2024)

Labor and the Geography of Production

by Kevin Sanson

Subject: Economics

Maverick Movies (2023)

New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film

by Daniel Herbert

Subject: Economics

Celluloid Democracy (2023)

Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea

by Hieyoon Kim

Subject: Countries > Korea

Beyond the Movie Theater (2023)

Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences

by Gregory A. Waller

Subject: Economics

New Arctic Cinemas (2023)

Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis

by Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport

Subject: Countries > Canada

Border Witness (2023)

Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film

by Michael Dear

Subject: Sociology

Recollecting Lotte Eisner (2022)

Cinema, Exile, and the Archive

by Naomi DeCelles

Subject: History of Cinema

Immortal Films (2022)

"Casablanca" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic

by Barbara Klinger

Subject: Sociology

Road Trip to Nowhere (2022)

Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture

by Jon Lewis

Subject: History of Cinema

Ink-Stained Hollywood (2022)

The Triumph of American Cinema's Trade Press

by Eric Hoyt

Subject: Economics

Andre Bazin on Adaptation (2022)

Cinema's Literary Imagination

by André Bazin

Subject: Technique > Adaptation

Cinematic Independence (2022)

Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria

by Noah Tsika

Subject: Countries > Africa

The First True Hitchcock (2022)

The Making of a Filmmaker

by Henry K. Miller

Subject: One Film > The Lodger

Dreams of Flight (2021)

"The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture

by Dana Polan

Subject: One Film > The Great Escape

Netflix Recommends (2021)

Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste

by Mattias Frey

Subject: Economics

Cinema Off Screen (2021)

Moviegoing in Socialist China

by Chenshu Zhou

Subject: Countries > China

The Stuff of Spectatorship (2021)

Material Cultures of Film and Television

by Caetlin Benson-Allott

by Juan Sebastián Ospina León

Subject: Theory

Struggles for Recognition (2021)

Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film

Subject: Countries > Latin America

Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures (2021)

A Critical Anthology

by Scott MacKenzie

Subject: Film Analysis

Everyday Movies (2020)

Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture

by Haidee Wasson

Subject: Technique > Projection

The Public Life of Cinema (2020)

Conflict and Collectivity in Austerity Greece

by Toby Lee

Subject: Countries > Greece

Dialectics without Synthesis (2020)

Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame

by Naoki Yamamoto

Subject: Theory

In the Studio (2020)

Visual Creation and Its Material Environments

by Brian R. Jacobson

Subject: Technique > Set Design

Sporting Blackness (2020)

Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen

by Samantha N. Sheppard

Subject: Sociology

Making Images Move (2020)

Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts

by Gregory Zinman

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Cold War Cosmopolitanism (2020)

Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema

by Christina Klein

Subject: Countries > Korea

Martial Law Melodrama (2020)

Lino Brocka's Cinema Politics

by José B. Capino

Subject: Director > Lino Brocka

University Babylon (2019)

Film and Race Politics on Campus

by Curtis Marez

Subject: Sociology

Films for the Colonies (2019)

Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire

by Tom Rice

Subject: Sociology

Frame by Frame (2019)

A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons

by Hannah Frank and Daniel Morgan

Subject: Genre > Animation

Comic Books Incorporated (2019)

How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood

by Shawna Kidman

Subject: Economics

Cartoon Vision (2019)

UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics

by Dan Bashara

Subject: Genre > Animation

Runaway Hollywood (2019)

Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting

by Daniel Steinhart

Subject: Economics

Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes (2019)

How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture

by Douglas E. Cowan

Subject: Genre > Fantasy

John Waters (2018)

Indecent Exposure

Dir. Kristen Hileman

Subject: Director > John Waters

Traumatic Imprints (2018)

Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War

by Noah Tsika

Subject: Sociology

Foundational Films (2018)

Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil

by Maite Conde

Subject: Countries > Brazil

Mock Classicism (2018)

Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960

by Nilo Couret

Subject: Countries > Latin America

Los Angeles Documentary (2018)

and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977

by Joshua Glick

Subject: On Films > Locations

Cinema's Military Industrial Complex (2018)

Dir. Haidee Wasson and Lee Grieveson

Subject: Countries > United States

Cinema and the Wealth of Nations (2017)

Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System

by Lee Grieveson

Subject: Sociology

Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art (2017)

by Rebecca J. Deroo

Subject: Director > Agnès Varda

Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo (2017)

Experimental Cinema in Latin America

Dir. Jesse Lerner and Luciano Piazza

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Charles Burnett (2017)

A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge

Subject: Director > Charles Burnett

Off the Page (2017)

Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence

by Daniel Bernardi and Julian Hoxter

Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting

Hokum! (2017)

The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture

by Rob King

Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor

Hymns for the Fallen (2017)

Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam

by Todd Decker

Subject: Genre > War films

Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination (2017)

Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture

by Eric Herhuth

Subject: Studio > Pixar

Hollywood Made in China (2017)

by Aynne Kokas

Subject: Countries > China

Politicking and Emergent Media (2016)

US Presidential Elections of the 1890s

by Charles Musser

Subject: History of Cinema

Smutty Little Movies (2016)

The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video

by Peter Alilunas

Subject: Genre > Porn films

The Curious Humanist (2016)

Siegfried Kracauer in America

by Johannes von Moltke

Subject: Film Analysis

Speaking Truths with Film (2016)

Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary

by Bill Nichols

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Slow Fade to Black (2016)

The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures

by Richard B. Jewell

Subject: Studio > RKO

Stealing the Show (2016)

African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood

by Miriam J. Petty

by Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez

Subject: Countries > United States

Latin American Cinema (2016)

A Comparative History

Subject: Countries > Latin America

Precarious Creativity (2016)

Global Media, Local Labor

Dir. Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson

Subject: Jobs and Trainings

L.A. Rebellion (2015)

Creating a New Black Cinema

Dir. Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Subject: Countries > United States

Menus for Movieland (2015)

Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture 1913-1916

Subject: Silent Cinema

A Hidden History of Film Style (2015)

Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process

by Christopher Beach

Subject: Technique > Cinematography

The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923 (2015)

by Jennifer Wild

Subject: Silent Cinema

Amateur Cinema (2014)

The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960

by Charles Tepperman

Subject: Technique > Amateur cinema

Film Rhythm after Sound (2014)

Technology, Music, and Performance

by Lea Jacobs

Subject: Technique > Music

Andre Bazin's New Media (2014)

by André Bazin and Dudley Andrew

Subject: Theory

Distribution Revolution (2014)

Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television

by Michael Curtin, Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson

Subject: Technique > All techniques

Hollywood Vault (2014)

Film Libraries before Home Video

by Eric Hoyt

Subject: Economics

Star Trek and American Television (2014)

by Roberta Pearson and Máire Messenger Davies

Subject: One Film > Star Trek (TV Series)

Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist (2014)

Reading the Hollywood Reds

by Jeff Smith

Subject: History of Cinema

Videoland (2014)

Movie Culture at the American Video Store

by Daniel Herbert

Subject: Economics

American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary (2013)

The Cambridge Turn

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens (2013)

Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing

by Caetlin Benson-Allott

Subject: Sociology

Painting With Light (2013)

by John Alton

Subject: Technique > Lighting

Precocious Charms (2013)

Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema

by Gaylyn Studlar

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Go West, Young Women! (2013)

The Rise of Early Hollywood

by Hilary Hallett

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Late Godard (2012)

and the Possibilities of Cinema

by Daniel Morgan

Subject: Director > Jean-Luc Godard

Shadow of a Mouse (2012)

Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation

by Donald Crafton

Subject: Genre > Animation

Ride, Boldly Ride (2012)

The Evolution of the American Western

by Mary Lea Bandy and Kevin Stoehr

Subject: Genre > Western

The Thrill Makers (2012)

Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance

by Jacob Smith

Subject: Sociology

RKO Radio Pictures (2012)

A Titan Is Born

by Richard B. Jewell

Subject: Studio > RKO

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (2012)

by Wayne Koestenbaum

Subject: Actor > Harpo Marx

Twilight of the Idols (2011)

Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America

by Mark Lynn Anderson

Subject: Sociology

Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue (2011)

Eight Reflections on Cinema

by Murray Pomerance

Subject: Director > Michelangelo Antonioni

Visions of Japanese Modernity (2010)

Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925

by Aaron Gerow

Subject: Countries > Japan

Chanteuse in the City (2010)

The Realist Singer in French Film

by Kelley Conway

Subject: Countries > France

Hidden Talent (2009)

The Emergence of Hollywood Agents

by Tom Kemper

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Moving Viewers (2009)

American Film and the Spectator's Experience

by Carl Plantinga

Subject: Sociology

The Fun Factory (2008)

The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture

by Rob King

Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor

The Haunted Screen (2008)

Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt

by Lotte H. Eisner

Subject: Countries > Germany

Vocal Tracks (2008)

Performance and Sound Media

by Jacob Smith

Subject: Technique > Acting

Fight Pictures (2008)

A History of Boxing and Early Cinema

by Dan Streible

Subject: Silent Cinema

The Decline of Sentiment (2008)

American Film in the 1920s

by Lea Jacobs

Subject: Sociology

Hollywood in the Neighborhood (2008)

Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing

Dir. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley

Subject: Economics

Cinema and Fascism (2008)

Italian Film and Society, 1922–1943

by Steven Ricci

Subject: Countries > Italy

More Than Night (2008)

Film Noir in Its Contexts

Subject: Genre > Film Noir

Mining the Home Movie (2007)

Excavations in Histories and Memories

by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Body Shots (2007)

Early Cinema's Incarnations

by Jonathan Auerbach

Subject: Silent Cinema

How the West Was Sung (2007)

Music in the Westerns of John Ford

by Kathryn Kalinak

Subject: Director > John Ford

Uncanny Bodies (2007)

The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre

by Robert Spadoni

Subject: Genre > Horror

The Frodo Franchise (2007)

The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood

by Kristin Thompson

Subject: One Film > The Lord of the Rings

Playing to the World's Biggest Audience (2007)

The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV

by Michael Curtin

Subject: Countries > China

Beyond the Soundtrack (2007)

Representing Music in Cinema

Dir. Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer and Richard Leppert

Subject: Technique > Music

Hollywood Be Thy Name (2007)

African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949

by Judith Weisenfeld

Subject: Sociology

Discovering Orson Welles (2007)

Subject: Director > Orson Welles

Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences (2006)

1910-1914

Subject: Silent Cinema

The Way Hollywood Tells It (2006)

Story and Style in Modern Movies

by David Bordwell

Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting

Beyond the Multiplex (2006)

Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home

by Barbara Klinger

Subject: Sociology

Five Films by Frederick Wiseman (2006)

Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing

Dir. Barry Keith Grant

Subject: Director > Frederick Wiseman

On The Passion of the Christ (2006)

Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie

by Paula Fredriksen

Subject: One Film > The Passion of the Christ

The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson (2005)

Secret Agents, Private I

Dir. Meredith Tromble

Subject: Director > Lynn Hershman Leeson

Icons of Grief (2005)

Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures

by Alexander Nemerov

Subject: Others persons > Val Lewton

Museum Movies (2005)

The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema

by Haidee Wasson

Subject: Economics

The Most Typical Avant-Garde (2005)

History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles

by David James

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Trauma Cinema (2005)

Documenting Incest and the Holocaust

by Janet Walker

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Migrating to the Movies (2005)

Cinema and Black Urban Modernity

by Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Subject: Sociology

Figures Traced in Light (2005)

On Cinematic Staging

by David Bordwell

Subject: Theory

Policing Cinema (2004)

Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America

by Lee Grieveson

Subject: Sociology

The New German Cinema (2003)

Music, History, and the Matter of Style

by Caryl Flinn

Subject: Countries > Germany

Bunuel and Mexico (2003)

The Crisis of National Cinema

by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz

Subject: Director > Luis Buñuel

Sundance to Sarajevo (2003)

Film Festivals and the World They Made

by Kenneth Turan

Subject: Festivals

The Garden in the Machine (2001)

A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place

Subject: Genre > Independent cinema

Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde (2001)

by Bill Nichols

Subject: Director > Maya Deren

Overhearing Film Dialogue (2000)

by Sarah Kozloff

Subject: Technique > Sound

Endless Night (1999)

Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories

Dir. Janet Bergstrom

Subject: Theory

Lawrence of Arabia (1999)

A Film's Anthropology

by Steven C. Caton

Subject: One Film > Lawrence of Arabia

The Red Rooster Scare (1999)

Subject: Silent Cinema

Bad Girls and Sick Boys (1998)

Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture

by Linda S. Kauffman

Subject: Sociology

Refiguring American Film Genres (1998)

Theory and History

Dir. Nick Browne

Subject: Genre > All Genres

The Wages of Sin (1997)

Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942

by Lea Jacobs

Subject: Sociology

The Making of Citizen Kane (1996)

by Robert L. Carringer

Publisher: University of California Press
Series: Non-Series
2nd Revised edition

Subject: One Film > Citizen Kane

Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (1996)

Dir. Leo Charney and Vanessa Schwartz

Subject: History of Cinema

The Nickel Was for the Movies (1995)

Film in the Novel from Pirandello to Puig

by Gavriel Moses

Subject: General

Placing Movies (1995)

The Practice of Film Criticism

Subject: Film Analysis

Fields of Vision (1995)

Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and Photography

by Leslie Devereaux and Roger Hillman

Subject: Theory

The Crisis of Political Modernism (1995)

Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Criticism

by D. N. Rodowick

Subject: Film Analysis

Moving Places (1995)

A Life at the Movies

Subject: Sociology

Alfred Hitchcock (1995)

A Filmography and Bibliography

by Jane E. Sloan

Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock

Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture (1994)

The Silent Era

by Sumiko Higashi

Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille

Overtones and Undertones (1994)

Reading Film Music

by Royal S. Brown

Subject: Technique > Music

Moving Targets (1994)

Women, Murder, and Representation

by Helen Birch

Subject: Genre > Film Noir

Black African Cinema (1994)

by Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike

Subject: Countries > Africa

Romance and the "Yellow Peril" (1994)

Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction

by Gina Marchetti

Subject: Sociology

Redefining Black Film (1993)

by Mark A. Reid

Subject: Sociology

Eloquent Gestures (1992)

The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films

by Roberta E. Pearson

Subject: Director > David W. Griffith

Echo and Narcissus (1991)

Women's Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema

by Amy Lawrence

Subject: Sociology

Before the Nickelodeon (1991)

Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company

by Charles Musser

Subject: Director > Edwin S. Porter

Life to Those Shadows (1990)

by Noël Burch

Subject: History of Cinema

Acting in the Cinema (1990)

Subject: Technique > Acting

Invisible Storytellers (1989)

Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film

by Sarah Kozloff

Subject: General

The Uncensored War (1989)

The Media and Vietnam

by Daniel C. Hallin

Subject: Genre > War films

Great Directors at Work (1987)

Stanislavsky, Brecht, Kazan, Brook

by David Richard Jones

Subject: Technique > Direction

Third World Film Making and the West (1987)

by Roy Armes

Subject: Countries > World

Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World (1985)

by Seymour Chatman

Subject: Director > Michelangelo Antonioni

Film Before Griffith (1984)

by John L. Fell

Subject: Silent Cinema

Sixguns and Society (1977)

A Structural Study of the Western

by Will Wright

Subject: Genre > Western

• Interviews (15 books)(0 book)

Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1 (2014)

Selected Writings and Interviews

by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Gottlieb

Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2 (2014)

Selected Writings and Interviews

by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Gottlieb

Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock

Masters of Light (2013)

Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers

by Dennis Schaefer and Larry Salvato

Subject: Technique > Cinematography

First Cut (2012)

Conversations with Film Editors

by Gabriella Oldham

Subject: Technique > Editing

First Cut 2 (2012)

More Conversations with Film Editors

by Gabriella Oldham

Subject: Technique > Editing

Backstory 5 (2009)

Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s

Dir. Patrick McGilligan

Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting

Adventures of Perception (2009)

Cinema as Exploration

Subject: Genre > Experimental

James Ivory in Conversation (2006)

How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies

by Robert Emmet Long

Subject: Director > James Ivory

A Critical Cinema 5 (2006)

Interviews with Independent Filmmakers

Subject: Director

Backstory 4 (2006)

Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s

by Patrick McGilligan

Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting

A Critical Cinema 4 (2005)

Interviews with Independent Filmmakers

Subject: Director

A Critical Cinema 3 (1998)

Interviews with Independent Filmmakers

Subject: Director

A Critical Cinema 2 (1992)

Interviews with Independent Filmmakers

Subject: Director

John Ford (1992)

by Peter Bogdanovich

Publisher: University of California Press
Series: Non-Series
Revised and enlarged edition

Subject: Director > John Ford

A Critical Cinema 1 (1988)

Interviews with Independent Filmmakers

Subject: Director

• Stories (21 books)(0 book)

The Development Film in the Americas (2025)

by Molly Geidel

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Dancing Down the Barricades (2024)

Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era

by Matthew Frye Jacobson

Subject: Actor > Sammy Davis Jr.

Hard-Boiled Hollywood (2017)

Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles

by Jon Lewis

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Voices of Labor (2017)

Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood

Dir. Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson

Subject: Jobs and Trainings

Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans (2017)

The Lure of the Local Film Economy

by Vicki Mayer

Subject: Economics

Hollywood 1938 (2012)

Motion Pictures' Greatest Year

by Catherine Jurca

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Music Makes Me (2011)

Fred Astaire and Jazz

by Todd Decker

Subject: Actor > Fred Astaire

Violette Noziere (2011)

A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris

by Sarah Maza

Subject: One Film > Violette Nozière

Radical Light (2010)

Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000

Dir. Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Canyon Cinema (2008)

The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor

Subject: Economics

Scenes of Instruction (2007)

The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film

by Dana Polan

Subject: Film Analysis

Tunes for 'Toons (2007)

Music and the Hollywood Cartoon

by Daniel Goldmark

Subject: Genre > Animation

It's All True (2007)

Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey

by Catherine L. Benamou

Subject: Director > Orson Welles

Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary (2006)

Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s

by Valeria Belletti and Cari Beauchamp

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Hollywood Quarterly (2002)

Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957

Dir. Eric Smoodin and Ann Martin

Subject: On Films > Movie magazines

Hitchcock and Selznick (1999)

The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood

by Leonard J. Leff

Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock

Hollywood (1995)

Mecca of the Movies

by Blaise Cendrars

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Picturing Casablanca (1994)

Portraits of Power in a Modern City

by Susan Ossman

Subject: Genre > Documentary

The Magnificent Ambersons (1993)

A Reconstruction

by Robert L. Carringer

Subject: One Film > The Magnificent Ambersons

Hollywood Goes to War (1990)

How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies

by Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black

Subject: History of Cinema

The Parade's Gone By... (1976)

by Kevin Brownlow

Subject: Silent Cinema

• Screenplays (7 books)(0 book)

Double Indemnity (2000)

The Complete Screenplay

by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler

Subject: One Film > Double Indemnity

The Lost Weekend (2000)

The Complete Screenplay

by Billy Wilder

Subject: One Film > The Lost Weekend

Stalag 17 (1999)

by Billy Wilder

Subject: One Film > Stalag 17

Sunset Boulevard (1999)

by Billy Wilder

Subject: One Film > Sunset Boulevard

Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges (1998)

The Power and the Glory, Easy Living, and Remember the Night

by Preston Sturges and Andrew Horton

Subject: One Film > Remember the Night, The Power and the Glory, Easy Living

Screen Writings (1995)

Texts and Scripts from Independent Films

Subject: Genre > Independent cinema

Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges (1985)

by Preston Sturges and Brian Henderson

Subject: One Film > The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, Hail the Conquering Hero

• Photos (1 book)(0 book)

David Lynch (2014)

The Unified Field

by Robert Cozzolino

Subject: Director > David Lynch

• Didactic (9 books)(0 book)

Legal Essentials for Screenwriters and Creative Artists

by John L. Geiger and Howard Suber

Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting

Closely Watched Films (2014)

An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique

by Marilyn Fabe

Subject: Film Analysis

Celluloid Symphonies (2011)

Texts and Contexts in Film Music History

Dir. Julie Hubbert

Subject: Technique > Music

Screenwriting for a Global Market (2004)

Selling Your Scripts from Hollywood to Hong Kong

by Andrew Horton

Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting

Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay (2000)

Updated and Expanded edition

by Andrew Horton

Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting

Laughing Out Loud (2000)

Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay

by Andrew Horton

Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor

Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (1997)

A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos

by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Movies and Methods, Volume 2 (1985)

by Bill Nichols

Subject: Film Analysis

Movies and Methods, Volume 1 (1976)

Dir. Bill Nichols

Subject: Film Analysis

• Filmmakers' writings (3 books)(0 book)

An Unspeakable Betrayal (2002)

Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel

by Luis Buñuel

Subject: Director > Luis Buñuel

I Was Interrupted (1995)

Nicholas Ray on making movies

by Nicholas Ray and Susan Ray

Subject: Director > Nicholas Ray

Kino-Eye (1985)

The Writings of Dziga Vertov

by Dziga Vertov

Subject: Director > Dziga Vertov

• Writings (1 book)(0 book)

Antonin Artaud (1988)

Selected Writings

by Antonin Artaud and Susan Sontag