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INTRODUCTIONS    DIRECTOR STUDIES    BOOKS BY DIRECTORS

THE FILM INDUSTRY    GENRE STUDY

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FILM AND DVD     'COOL' POSTER BOOKS 

 JAPANESE ANIMATION    ITALIAN CINEMA

KOREAN CINEMA    SILENT FILM     FILM NOIR

FRENCH CINEMA   CHINESE/HONG KONG/ TAIWANESE FILM

JAPANESE CINEMA

Recommended Film reading (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)

The "Holy Grail" for Kubrick fans...

The Stanley Kubrick Archives
by Alison Castle (Editor)

**BONUS**
Books in the first print run will each include a twelve-frame film strip from a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey owned by Stanley Kubrick

Made in cooperation with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and the Stanley Kubrick Estate.

ENTER OUR NEW CINEMA BOOK FORUM ! (Post your favorites!)

FEATURE READS FOR June - 2005!

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Essential Cinema
by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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STRONG RECOMMENDED:

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A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie

Tokyo Story

by Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda, Donald Richie, Eric Klestadt

Ozu's Tokyo Story

by David Desser

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DREYER IN DOUBLE REFLECTION
edited with commentary by Donald Skoller
S.M. Eisenstein: Selected Works : Towards a Theory of Montage
by S.M. Eisenstein, Michael Glenny
Conversations With Fellini
by Costanzo Costantini, Sohrab Sorooshian
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Hawks on Hawks
by Joseph McBride
Herzog on Herzog
by Paul Cronin
David Lean: A Biography
by Kevin Brownlow
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Riefenstahl Olympia, by Leni Riefenstahl The Films in My Life
by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew
Film Lighting
by Kris Malkiewicz
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INTRODUCTIONS

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Roger Ebert's Book of Film ed. by Roger Ebert

 

An Introduction to Film Studies ed. by Jill Nelmes Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson* (a great starting point)
     

Film History: An Introduction by Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell Theory of Film by Siegfried Kracauer Writers At The Movies
     

Understanding Movies by Louis Gianetti The Art Of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Paul Schrader
     

 

Further Reading:

Understanding Movies by Louis D. Giannetti

Screening History by Gore Vidal

 

DIRECTOR STUDIES

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Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski by Annette Insdorf Truffaut: A Biography by Antoine do Baecque and Serge Toubiana Orson Welles: The Road to Xanada by Simon Callow
     
Kubrick: Inside A Film Artist's Maze by Thomas Allen Nelson Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis by Alexander Walker Stanley Kubrick Companion by James Howard
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The Complete Kubrick by David Hughes Narrative And Stylistic Patterns In The Films Of Stanley Kubrick by Luis Garcia Mainar The Making Of 2001: A Space Odyssey
     
The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Ritchie Ozu by Donald Ritchie Robert Bresson by James Quandt
     
The Films of John Cassavetes: The Adventure of Insecurity by John Cassavetes and Ray Carney Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar by Paul Julian Smith The Films of Paul Morrissey by Maruice Yacowar
     
Chaplin and America Culture by Charles Maland Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative And Stylistic Analysis by Mario Falsetto The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue by Vida T. Johnson and Graham Petrie
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Agnes Varda by Alison Smith My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer by Jean Drum and Dale Drum Hitchcock's Notebooks by Dan Aulier
     

 

Further Reading:

Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry by Maya Turovskaya

Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s by Donald Kirihara

Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography by by Peter Cowie

Films of Luis Bunuel: Subjectivity and Desire by Peter William Evans

 

 

BOOKS BY DIRECTORS

(including memoirs and collected interviews) 

 

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Sculpting in Time: Reflections on Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky Kieslowski on Kieslowski ed. by Danusia Stok Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut* (a great starting point)
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Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe Getting Away With It: Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw by Steven Soderbergh Godard on Godard : Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard
     
The Name Above the Title by Frank Capra On Directing Film by David Mamet Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson
     
Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman Images: My Life in Film by Ingmar Bergman
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My Last Sigh by Luis Bunuel Scorsese on Scorsese  by David Thompson Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste by John Waters
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Novels, 1955-1962: Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire, Lolita: A Screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film by Jean Cocteau I, Fellini by Federico Fellini
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This is Orson Welles  by Peter Bogdanovich Who the Devil Made It by Peter Bogdanovich The Art of Cinema by Jean Cocteau
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Further Reading:

 

Turnaroud: A Memoir by Milos Forman

Schrader on Schrader by Paul Schrader and Kevin Jackson

Childhood Days: A Memoir by Satyajit Ray

Dreyer in Double Reflection : Translation of Carl Th. Dreyer's Writings About the Film ed. by Donald Skoller

Double Vision: My Life in Film by Andrzej Wajda

Pieces of Time by Peter Bogdanovich

 

THE FILM INDUSTRY

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Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See Right Now by Jonathon Rosenbaum Making Movies by Sidney Lumet Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon
     
Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Neal Gabler Memo From David O. Selznick ed. by Rudy Behlmer Hollywood (a novel) by Charles Bukowski
     
Movies and Money by David Puttman Digital Filmmaking Handbook by Long & Schenk Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler by Joe Queenan
     
Eros In Hell by Jack Hunter Sundancing by John Anderson Rebel Without A Crew by Robert Rodriguez
     
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by John Gregory Dunne Killer Instinct by Jane Hamsher
     
 
Story by Robert McKee The Art Of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri  
     

 

Further Reading:

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca by Aljean Harmetz

 

GENRE STUDY

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Spike, Mike, Slackers, and Dykes by John Pierson

Cinema of Outsiders by Emanual Levy Asian Pop Cinema by Lee Server
     
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind Mondo Macabro by Pete Tombs Shooting To Kill by Christine Vachom
     
Myth and the Movies by Stuart Voytilla The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir by Foster Hirsch Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City
     

Further Reading:

The Samurai Film by Alain Silver

Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History ed. by Arthur Nolletti and David Desser

DEFA : East German Cinema, 1946-1992 by Sean Allan and John Sandford

 

Powell and Pressburger:

 

A Life in Movies: An Autobiography
by Michael Powell
Michael Powell: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
by David Lazar
Arrows of Desire: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
by Ian Christie
Arrows of Desire: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
by Ian Christie
The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers
by Scott Salwolke
The Red Shoes: The Classic Story
by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Black Narcissus
by Rumer Godden
Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces (Cinema & Society S.)
Andrew Moor
Gone to Earth (Virago Modern Classics)
Mary Webb, Erika Duncan
I Know Where I'm Going! (BFI Film Classics S.)
Pam Cook

Film and DVD

How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia : Language, History, Theory
by James Monaco
Teach Yourself Film Studies
by Warren Buckland
DVD & Video Guide 2005
by Mick Martin, Marsha Porter
The Art of Watching Films
by Joe Boggs, Dennis W. Petrie
Get the Picture?: The Movie Lover's Guide to Watching Films
by Jim Piper
TLA Video & DVD Guide 2005 : The Discerning Film Lover's Guide (Tla Video & DVD Guide)
by David Bleiler

'COOL' POSTER BOOKS

Film Posters of the 50s: The Essential Movies of the Decade from the Reel Poster Gallery Collection
by Tony Nourmand, Graham March
Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters
by Jacques Boyreau
Film Posters of the 60s: The Essential Movies of the Decade : From the Reel Poster Gallery Collection
by Tony Nourmand, Reel Poster Gallery, Graham Marsh
Science Fiction Poster Art
by Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh
Science Fiction and Horror Movie Posters in Full Color
by Alan Adler
Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy Movie Posters & Lobby Cards
by Forrest J. Ackerman, Robert Brosch
The Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir
by Eddie Muller
Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde (Jumbo)
by Susan Pack
A Century of Movie Posters : From Silent to Art House
by Emily King
Italian Film Posters
by Dave Kehr

Japanese Animation

Italian Cinema

Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present
by Peter E. Bondanella
Fellini on Fellini
by Federico Fellini, Isabel Quigley
Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism
by Millicent Marcus
Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Howard Curle, Stephen Snyder
Italian Film (National Film Traditions)
by Marcia Landy, David Desser
Italian Movie Goddesses: Over 80 of the Greatest Women in Italian Cinema
by Stefano Masi, Enrico Lancia
Italian Cinema
by Maggie Gunsberg
I, Fellini
by Charlotte Chandler, Billy Wilder
Vittorio De Sica: Director, Actor, Screenwriter
by Bert Cardullo

Korean Cinema

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The Cinema Of Japan And Korea (24 Frames)
by Justin Bowyer, Jinhee Choi
Contemporary Korean Cinema : Culture, Identity and Politics
by Hyangjin Lee
The History of Korean Cinema
by Young-il Lee, Young-chol Choe
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Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong
by Anthony Leong
Korean Film : History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination
by Eungjun Min, Jinsook Joo, Han Ju Kwak
The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (Asia-Pacific)
by Kyung Hyun Kim
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Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema
by David E. James, Kyung Hyun Kim, Myong-Hwa Chung
Korean Cinema (Images of Asia)
by Frances K. Gateward

Silent Film

Metropolis (Bfi Film Classics, 54)
by Thomas Elsaesser
Movie Posters of the Silent Film Era To Color
by Rex Schneider,
Christopher Buchman
 
American Film Cycles: The Silent Era (Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts)
by Larry Langman
Family Secrets: The Feature Films of D. W. Griffith
by Michael Allen
Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema
by Jeffrey Vance
The First Female Stars : Women of the Silent Era
by David W. Menefee
Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
by Anthony Slide
 
The Silent Cinema Reader
by Lee Grieveson, Peter Kramer
Silent Stars Speak: Interviews With Twelve Cinema Pioneers
by Tony Villecco
Haunted Screen Expressionism in the German Cinema
by Lotte Eisner

Film Noir

Film Noir: An Encyclopedia Reference to the American Style
by Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward

The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

by Foster Hirsch

Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City

by Nicholas Christopher

Film Noir Reader 4 : The Crucial Films and Themes (Film Noir Reader)
by Alain Silver
The Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir
by Eddie Muller
The Little Black and White Book of Film Noir: Quotations from Films of the 40's and 50's
by Peg Thompson, Saeko Usukawa
Film Noir
by Alain Silver
Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
by Michael F. Keaney
Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir
by Foster Hirsch
More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts
by James Naremore

French Cinema

The Films in My Life
by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew

French Cinema: A Student's Guide
by Philip Powrie, Keith Reader
Agnes Varda by Alison Smith
Godard on Godard : Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No. 2)
by James Quandt
The Art of Cinema by Jean Cocteau French New Wave
by Jean Douchet, Robert Bonnono, Cedric Anger, Robert Bononno
French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present
by Remi Fournier Lanzoni

Chinese/Hong Kong/Taiwanese Cinema

Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy
by Zhen Ni, Chris Berry, Ni Zhen
 
Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers)
by Frances Gateward
Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes
by Chris Berry

Wong Kar-Wai: Auteur of Time (Bfi World Directors)
by Stephen Teo

 
China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Envisioning Asia)
by Jerome Silbergeld
New Chinese Cinemas
by Nick Browne

Once Upon a Time in China : A Guide to Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Mainland Chinese Cinema
by Jeff Yang
Chinese Film Theory
by George S. Semsel
Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema
by Shuqin Cui
Tsai Ming-Liang
by Tsai Ming-Liang

Japanese Cinema

The Japan Journals : 1947-2004,

by  Donald Richie

The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film
by Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp

Kon Ichikawa (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs)

by James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario

Shohei Imamura (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No. 1)
by James Quandt
Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema (Midland Book, Mb 469)
by David Desser
The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Ritchie

Tokyo Story

by Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda, Donald Richie, Eric Klestadt

Ozu by Donald Ritchie

A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie

 

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