A few days ago one of you have asked for a list of books about films for
the purpose of building a film library.
I tried to make a list that is both basic and wide ranged.
I hope it can help. Ill be glad to get comments. If someone thinks I left
out some essential books ill be glad to hear about it. I have also entered
a few up-to-date general books in History and Theory.
I'll just show you the list and you can decide for yourselves:
1. For Ever Godard by James Williams, Michael Witt, James S. Williams;
ISBN: 19010-3369-4; Publisher: Client Distribution Services; Publish Date:
01 June, 2004.
2. Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality by Siegfried
Kracauer; ISBN: 06910-3704-3; Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; Publish Date:
24 November, 1997.
3. Oxford History of World Cinema by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith; ISBN: 01987-
4242-8; Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish Date: February, 1999.
4. Oxford Guide to Film Studies by John Hill, Pamela Church Gibson; ISBN:
01987-1124-7; Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish Date: 19 March, 1998.
5. Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory by Philip Rosen; ISBN:
08166-3638-9; Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr; Publish Date: 2001-06-01.
6. Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency and the Archive by
Mary Ann Doane; ISBN: 06740-0784-0; Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Publish
Date: 27 December, 2002.
7. Photography: A Critical Introduction by Liz Wells; ISBN: 04153-0704-x;
Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: 17 May, 2004; Binding: Paperback , 382
pages , 3 edition.
8. Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives by Marguerite R. Waller,
Frank Burke; ISBN: 08020-7647-5; Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr; Publish
Date: 2002-06-08.
9. Agitator: The Cinema Of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes, Shinya Tsukamoto;
ISBN: 19032-5421-3; Publisher: Scb Distributors; Publish Date: 2003-03-06.
10. Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
by Bordwell, David, Carroll, Noel Bordwell, David Carroll, Noel; ISBN:
02991-4944-7; Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press; Publish Date:
01 February, 1996.
11. Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System by
Fredric Jameson; ISBN: 02532-0966-8; Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr; Publish
Date: August, 1995.
12. Forget Foucault; by Jean Baudrillard; ISBN: 09367-5610-1; Publisher:
Mit Pr; Publish Date: 01 June, 1988.
13. Movies and Methods: An Anthology vol. 1 by Bill Nochols; ISBN: 05200-
3151-2; Publisher: Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: 09 November, 1976.
14. Movies and Methods: An Anthology Vol. 2 by Bill Nochols; ISBN: 05200-
5409-1; Publisher: Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: 06 September, 1985.
15. Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson; ISBN:
00724-8455-1; Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; Publish Date: June, 2003;
Binding: Paperback , 7 edition.
16. Film History: An Introduction by Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell;
ISBN: 00703-8429-0; Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; Publish Date: 06
August, 2002; Binding: Paperback , 788 pages , 2 edition.
17. Cinema 1: Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze; ISBN: 08166-1400-8;
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr; Publish Date: August, 1986.
18. Cinema 2: The Time-Image by Gilles Deleuze, Hugh Tomlinson; ISBN:
08166-1677-9; Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr; Publish Date: November,
1989.
19. What Is Cinema: Volume I by Andre Bazin, Dudley Andrew, Jean Renoir,
Hugh Gray; ISBN: 05202-4227-0; Publisher: Univ of California Pr; Publish
Date: 13 December, 2004.
20. What Is Cinema: Volume II by Andre Bazin, Dudley Andrew, Francois
Truffaut, Hugh Gray; ISBN: 05202-4228-9; Publisher: Univ of California Pr;
Publish Date: 13 December, 2004.
21. Brain Is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema by Gregory
Flaxman; ISBN: 08166-3447-5; Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr; Publish
Date: 17 February, 2000.
22. Film and Authorship by Virginia Wright Wexman; ISBN: 08135-3193-4;
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr; Publish Date: December, 2002.
23. Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema by Christian Metz;
ISBN: 02532-0380-5; Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr; Publish Date: February,
1986.
24. Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema by Christian Metz, Michael
Taylor; ISBN: 02265-2130-3; Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr; Publish Date:
15 December, 1990.
25. Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti; ISBN: 01318-9098-0;
Publisher: Prentice Hall; Publish Date: 24 March, 2004; Binding:
Paperback , 579 pages , 10 edition.
26. The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema by Angela
Dalle Vacche; ISBN: 06910-0872-8; Publisher: Princeton University Press;
Publish Date: January, 1992.
27. On the History of Film Style by David Bordwell; ISBN: 06746-3429-2;
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Publish Date: 15 January, 1998.
28. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings by Leo Braudy,
Marshall Cohen; ISBN: 01951-5817-2; Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish
Date: 11 March, 2004; Binding: Paperback , 6 edition.
29. Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis by Jacques Lacan; ISBN:
03933-1775-7; Publisher: WW Norton and Co Inc; Publish Date: April, 1998.
30. Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age by
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Paolo Cherchi Usai; ISBN: 08517-0837-4; Publisher:
Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: 01 August, 2001.
31. Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir by J.P. Telotte
ISBN: 02520-6056-3; Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr; Publish Date: March,
1989.
32. More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts by James Naremore; ISBN:
05202-1294-0; Publisher: Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: 16 October,
1998.
33. History of Narrative Film by David A. Cook; ISBN: 03939-7868-0;
Publisher: WW Norton and Co Inc; Publish Date: 01 January, 2004; Binding:
Paperback , 1120 pages , 4 edition.
34. Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen by Michel Chion, Claudia Gorbman,
Claudia Gorbman; ISBN: 02310-7899-4; Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr; Publish
Date: 15 April, 1994.
35. Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin Wood; ISBN: 02311-2695-6;
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr; Publish Date: 15 May, 2002.
36. The Dark Side of Genius : Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto;
ISBN: 08596-5213-0; Publisher: Plexus Publishing Ltd; Publish Date: 30
June, 1994.
37. Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum
of Modern Art by Szarkowski; ISBN: 08212-2623-1; Publisher: Little Brown
and Co; Publish Date: September 1999.
38. Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema by Kaja
Silverman; ISBN: 02532-0474-7; Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr; Publish Date:
April, 1988.
39. Visible and the Invisible: Followed by Working Notes by Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Douglas Low; ISBN: 08101-0457-1; Publisher: Northwestern
Univ Pr; Publish Date: 01 January, 1969.
40. Critical Ideas in Television Studies by John Corner; ISBN: 01987-4220-7
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish Date: 15 April, 1999.
41. Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath; ISBN: 02531-5914-8; Publisher:
Indiana Univ Pr; Publish Date: November, 1985.
42. Dada and Surrealist Film by Rudolf E. Kuenzli; ISBN: 02626-1121-X;
Publisher: Mit Pr; Publish Date: 01 August, 1996.
43. Theorizing the Moving Image by Noel Carroll; ISBN: 05214-6607-5;
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr; Publish Date: 31 May, 1996.
44. Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art by Arthur C. Danto;
ISBN: 08126-9540-2; Publisher: Pub Group West; Publish Date: February,
2003.
45. Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag; ISBN: 03122-
8086-6; Publisher: St Martins Pr; Publish Date: 25 August, 2001.
46. Cinema Book by Pam Cook, Mieke Bernink; ISBN: 08517-0726-2; Publisher:
Univ of California Pr; Publish Date: December, 1999; Binding: Paperback ,
406 pages , 2 edition.
47. Film As Social Practice by Graeme Turner; ISBN: 04152-1595-1;
Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: November, 1999; Binding: Paperback ,
221 pages , 3 edition.
48. Film Theory and Philosophy by Murray Smith, Richard Allen; ISBN: 01981-
5988-9; Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; Publish Date: 29 July, 1999.
49. Projecting Illusion: Film Spectatorship and the Impression of Reality
by Richard Allen; ISBN: 05215-8715-8; Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr;
Publish Date: 28 May, 1997.
50. World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film by Stanley Cavell;
ISBN: 06749-6196-X; Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Publish Date: 01 January,
1979.
51. Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film by Ellis Hanson; ISBN:
08223-2342-7; Publisher: Duke Univ Pr; Publish Date: 1999-04-01.
52. Film As Art by Rudolf Arnheim; ISBN: 05202-4837-6; Publisher: Univ of
California Pr; Publish Date: 06 March, 2006.
53. Bazin at Work: Major Essays & Reviews from the Forties and Fifties by
Andre Bazin, Bert Cardullo, Bert Cardullo; ISBN: 04159-0018-2; Publisher:
Routledge; Publish Date: 17 January, 1997.
54. Film Sense by Sergeii Mikhaiilovich Eisenstein, Jay Leyda; ISBN: 01563-
0935-1; Publisher: Harcourt; Publish Date: June, 1969; Binding:
Paperback , 288 pages.
55. Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema by Jean Mitry, Christopher
King; ISBN: 02532-1377-0; Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr; Publish Date:
December, 1999.
56. Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative
Technique by Kristin Thompson; ISBN: 06748-3975-7; Publisher: Harvard Univ
Pr; Publish Date: 05 November, 1999.
57. Film/Genre by Rick Altman; ISBN: 08517-0717-3; Publisher: Univ of
California Pr; Publish Date: 01 May, 1999.
58. Ingmar Bergman and the Rituals of Art by Paisley Livingston; ISBN:
08014-1452-0; Publisher: Cornell University Press; Publish Date: May, 1982.
59. Aesthetics of Film: Jacques Aumont, Alain Bergala, Michel Marie, Marc
Vernet by Alain Bergala, Michel Marie, Jacques Aumont, Marc Vernet,
Richard Neupert; ISBN: 02927-0437-2; Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr; Publish
Date: January 1992.
60. Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting by Galen A.
Johnson, Michael B. Smith; ISBN: 08101-1074-1; Publisher: Northwestern
Univ Pr; Publish Date: 05 January, 1994.
61. Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger by
Jean-Marie Schaeffer; ISBN: 06910-1669-0; Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr;
Publish Date: 04 April, 2000.
62. Cahiers Du Cinema: The 1950's Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave by Jim
Hillier; ISBN: 06740-9061-6; Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr; Publish Date: 15
July, 2005.
63. Cahiers Du Cinema: 1960-1968 New Wave, New Cinema, Reevaluating
Hollywood by Jim Hillier; ISBN: 06740-9065-9; Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr;
Publish Date: 01 March, 1992.
64. Film Technique and Film Acting by Pudovkin, V. I.; ISBN: 11310-6760-6;
Publisher: Grove Pr Publish Date: June 1970.
65. Film/Cinema/Movie: A Theory of Experience by Gerald Mast; ISBN: 02265-
0974-5; Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr; Publish Date: January, 1984.
66. Visible Fictions: Cinema Television Video by John Ellis; ISBN: 04150-
7513-0; Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: 14 August, 1992.
67. From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film by
Siegfried Kracauer, Leonardo Quaresima; ISBN: 06911-1519-2; Publisher:
Princeton Univ Pr; Publish Date: 22 March, 2004.
68. Hugo Munsterberg on Film: The Photoplay A Psychological Study and
Other Writings by Allan Langdale, Allan Langdale; ISBN: 04159-3707-8;
Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: 21 December, 2001.
69. The World in a Frame: What We See in Films by Braudy, Leo; ISBN: 02260-
7155-3; Publisher: University of Chicago Press; Publish Date: 15 July,
1984.
70. Film History: Theory and Practice by Robert Clyde Allen; ISBN: 00755-
4871-2; Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; Publish Date: 01 February, 1993.
71. From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly
Haskell; ISBN: 02263-1885-0; Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr; Publish Date:
15 October, 1987.
72. Genius of the System : Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (96
Edition) by Thomas Schatz, Steven Bach; ISBN: 08050-4666-6; Publisher:
Holt (Henry) & Co ,U.S.; Publish Date: 15 April, 1996.
73. Hollywood Genres: Formulas Filmmaking and the Studio System by Thomas
Schatz; ISBN: 00755-3623-4; Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; Publish Date:
01 February, 1981.
74. Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock And Feminist Theory by Tania
Modleski; ISBN: 04159-7362-7; Publisher: Routledge; Publish Date: 07
September, 2005; Binding: Paperback , 185 pages , 2 edition.
Hope its useful.
Best Regards,
Guido Alberti.
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