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INTRODUCTIONS DIRECTOR STUDIES BOOKS BY DIRECTORS

THE FILM INDUSTRY GENRE STUDY

NEW CATEGORIES:

STRONG RECOMMENDATIONS POWELL AND PRESSBURGER

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)

Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Film-maker

by Ian Christie (Editor), Andrew Moor (Editor)

Paperback or Hardcover

A Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965
by Paul Arthur

Paperback or Hardcover

Wong Kar-wai (Contemporary Film Directors)
by Peter Brunette

Paperback or Hardcover

Edward Yang (Contemporary Film Directors)
by John Anderson

Paperback or Hardcover


Claire Denis (Contemporary Film Directors) by Judith Mayne Paperback or Hardcover	The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image by Joseph G. Kickasola Paperback or Hardcover	Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China’s MoraL Voice by Jerome Silbergeld

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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Big Bosoms and Square Jaws : The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film by Jimmy Mcdonough	Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto by Tom Mes, Takashi Miike


Film: The Critics' Choice by Geoff Andrew	Shades of Noir: A Reader by Joan Copjec

Essential Cinema
by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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STRONG RECOMMENDED:

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The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films by Jay Carr (Editor)	Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Adrian Martin	Moving Places: A Life at the Movies by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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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

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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


Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke : Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier	Princess Mononoke by Miramax	Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation : Films, Themes, Artistry by Helen McCarthy

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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