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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. * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **