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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
Donald Spoto · 523 pages
The monumental scope of Hitchcock's work remains unsurpassed by any other movie director, past or present. Psycho, Rear Window, The Birds and Vertigo are only a few of his classics.d his superb analysis--still the Hitchcockian commentary after 15 years in print. Photographs throughout.
The Matrix
Joshua Clover · 104 pages
The Matrix (1999) was a true end-of-the-millennium movie, a statement of the American Zeitgeist, and a prognosis for the future of big-budget Hollywood filmmaking. Starring Keanu Reeves as Neo, a computer programmer transformed into a messianic freedom fighter, The Matrix blends science fiction with conspiracy thriller conventions and outlandish martial arts created with groundbreaking digital tec
The Silence of the Lambs
Yvonne Tasker · 95 pages
In this study Yvonne Tasker explores the way the film weaves together gothic, horror and thriller conventions to generate both a distinctive variation on the cinematic portrayal of insanity and crime, and a fascinating intervention in the sexual politics of genre.
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Geoff Dyer · 228 pages
An in-depth, discursive, obsessive analysis of/speculation about the film Stalker by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert · 512 pages
Lolita
Richard Corliss · 91 pages
When Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita first appeared in 1955, it was under the imprint of the Olympia Press, a French publisher best known for its extensive list of pornography. And when Stanley Kubrick came to film the book in 1961 it was still a notorious work. Nabokov's tale of a barely pubescent girl who excites the lust and love of a scholarly middle-aged man was fraught with censorship proble
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
Gilles Deleuze, Gilles Delevze · 264 pages
Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation
Susan J. Napier
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Carol J. Clover · 265 pages
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. According to that view, the power of films like Halloween and Texas Chain Saw Massacre lies in their ability to yoke us in the killer's perspective and to make us party to his atrocities. In this book Carol Clover argues that sadism is actually the lesser part of t
Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told
Blake Snyder · 300 pages
Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club
Anna Kornbluh · 195 pages
Anna Kornbluh provides an overview of Marxist approaches to film, with particular attention to three central concepts in Marxist theory in general that have special bearing on film: “the mode of production,” “ideology,” and “mediation.” In explaining how these concepts operate and how they have been used and misused in film studies, the volume employs a case study to exemplify the practice of Marx
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Peter Biskind · 506 pages
"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and ho
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
Sam Wasson · 260 pages
A closeup examination of Blake Edwards' classic film, Breakfast at Tiffany's, winner of two Oscars.
Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman · 425 pages
Includes an idea-to-film production case study of his short story, Da Vinci.
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Mark Harris · 496 pages
The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde-and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, foreverIt's the mid-1960s, and westerns, war movies and blockbuster musicals-Mary Poppins, The
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - How We Made Movie Magic
Andy Serkis · 112 pages
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
Steven Jay Schneider, Geoff Andrew, Linda Badley, Kathryn Bergeron, Tom Gunning, Ernest Hardy, Aniko Imre, Kyung Hyun Kim, Frank Lafond, Adrian Martin, Kim Newman, Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, Richard Pena, Margaret Pomeranz, Jonathan Rosenbaum, David Stratton, Adisakdi Tantimedh, Michael Tapper, · 960 pages
The best movies of all time, those not to be missed, from *2001: A Space Odyssey* to Z, from classic comedies to the most legendary westerns. The selection presented in this volume considers both the importance of the films in the history of cinema and the enthusiasm with which they were received by audiences and critics. With entertaining and informative reviews by a team of renowned critics, *10
The Wes Anderson Collection
Matt Zoller Seitz, Wes Anderson · 327 pages
This companion to the bestselling The Wes Anderson Collection is the only book to take readers behind the scenes of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Through a series of in-depth interviews between writer/director Wes Anderson and cultural critic Matt Zoller Seitz, Anderson shares the story behind the film's conception, personal anecdotes about the making of the film, and the wide variety of sources that
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
Stephen Rebello · 224 pages
Shares a behind the scenes look at how "Psycho" was made, despite studio opposition, and includes interviews with the cast and crew.
My Lunches with Orson
Henry Jaglom, Orson Welles · 306 pages
"There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, d
The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Jody Duncan Jesser, Janine Pourroy · 299 pages
The Parade's Gone By...
Kevin Brownlow · 577 pages
Passing in review here is the silent film era and Mr. Brownlow has done a splendid job of vitalizing the past through interviews and personal research. Most of this material has never seen print before and the filmophile will go wild over reminiscences such as Joseph Henabery's (who assisted Griffith on Intolerance). And the snaps: Garbo who loved watching talking pictures in reverse but refused t