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• Biographies (23) • Encyclopedias (3) • Essays (20) • Studies (169) • Interviews (15) • Stories (20) • Screenplays (7) • Didactic (9) • Filmmakers' writings (3) • Writings (1)
• Biographies (5) • Encyclopedias (1) • Essays (10) • Studies (85) • Interviews (5) • Stories (7) • Screenplays (0) • Didactic (3) • Filmmakers' writings (0) • Writings (0)
• Biographies (23 books)(5 books)
Becoming the Ex-Wife (2024)
The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Ursula Parrott
Captain of Her Soul (2022)
The Life of Marion Davies
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Marion Davies
Chuck Jones (2022)
A Flurry of Drawings
by Hugh Kenner
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Chuck Jones
Lois Weber in Early Hollywood (2015)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Lois Weber
The Passion of Montgomery Clift (2010)
by Amy Lawrence
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Montgomery Clift
Irving Thalberg (2009)
Boy Wonder to Producer Prince
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Irving Thalberg
Brass Diva (2009)
The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman
by Caryl Flinn
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Ethel Merman
The Animated Man (2007)
A Life of Walt Disney
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Walt Disney
The Final Victim of the Blacklist (2006)
John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten
by Gerald Horne
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > John Howard Lawson
The First Lady of Hollywood (2005)
A Biography of Louella Parsons
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Louella Parsons
A Very Dangerous Citizen (2002)
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left
by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Abraham Polonsky
A Heart at Fire's Center (2002)
The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Bernard Herrmann
Lillian Gish (2002)
Her Legend, Her Life
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Lillian Gish
Truffaut (2000)
A Biography
by Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > François Truffaut
Hollywood Diva (2000)
A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Jeanette MacDonald
Without Lying Down (1998)
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Frances Marion
When I'm Bad, I'm Better (1997)
Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment
Publisher: University of California Press
A Heart at Fire's Center (1991)
The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
Publisher: University of California Press
(previous edition)
Subject: Others persons > Bernard Herrmann
Ozu (1977)
His Life and Films
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Yasujirô Ozu
• Encyclopedias (3 books)(1 book)
Chinese Movie Magazines (2018)
From Charlie Chaplin to Chairman Mao, 1921-1951
Publisher: University of California Press
The World History of Animation (2011)
Publisher: University of California Press
The Ciné Goes to Town (1998)
French Cinema 1896 - 1914
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Series: Non-Series
2nd Revised edition
Subject: Silent Cinema
• Essays (20 books)(10 books)
Anita Loos Rediscovered (2025)
Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
by Anita Loos, Cari Beauchamp and Mary Anita Loos
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Anita Loos
Derivative Media (2024)
How Wall Street Devours Culture
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Depth Effects (2023)
Dimensionality from Camera to Computation
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
What Film Is Good For (2023)
On the Values of Spectatorship
by Julian Hanich and Martin P. Rossouw
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Specworld (2023)
Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
At the Edges of Sleep (2022)
Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators
by Jean Ma
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
The Lure of the Image (2021)
Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
Transcendental Style in Film (2018)
Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
An Invention without a Future (2014)
Essays on Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: General
Ex-Cinema (2012)
From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Funny Pictures (2011)
Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
Dir. Daniel Goldmark and Charles Keil
Publisher: University of California Press
The Tactile Eye (2009)
Touch and the Cinematic Experience
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
What Is Cinema? Volume II (2004)
by André Bazin
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
What Is Cinema? Volume I (2004)
by André Bazin
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
For Documentary (1999)
Twelve Essays
by Dai Vaughan
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Hard Core (1999)
Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Expanded edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Porn films
The Memory of Tiresias (1998)
Intertextuality and Film
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
A Certain Realism (1993)
Making Use of Pasolini's Film Theory and Practice
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Studies (169 books)(85 books)
Tales of Militant Chemistry (2025)
The Film Factory in a Century of War
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Toward a More Perfect Rebellion (2025)
Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A.
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Where Is Abbas Kiarostami? (2025)
Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Abbas Kiarostami
Antifascism and the Avant-Garde (2025)
Radical Documentary in the 1960s
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Global Movie Magazine Networks (2025)
by Eric Hoyt and Kelley Conway
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
Kartemquin Films (2024)
Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy
Publisher: University of California Press
Romancing Yesenia (2024)
How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture
Publisher: University of California Press
Historical Turns (2024)
Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Unhomed (2024)
Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Hollywood Remaking (2024)
How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu (2024)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Yasujirô Ozu
Mobile Hollywood (2024)
Labor and the Geography of Production
by Kevin Sanson
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Maverick Movies (2023)
New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Celluloid Democracy (2023)
Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea
by Hieyoon Kim
Publisher: University of California Press
Beyond the Movie Theater (2023)
Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
New Arctic Cinemas (2023)
Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis
by Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Publisher: University of California Press
Border Witness (2023)
Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film
by Michael Dear
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Recollecting Lotte Eisner (2022)
Cinema, Exile, and the Archive
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Immortal Films (2022)
"Casablanca" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Road Trip to Nowhere (2022)
Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture
by Jon Lewis
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Ink-Stained Hollywood (2022)
The Triumph of American Cinema's Trade Press
by Eric Hoyt
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Andre Bazin on Adaptation (2022)
Cinema's Literary Imagination
by André Bazin
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Cinematic Independence (2022)
Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria
by Noah Tsika
Publisher: University of California Press
The First True Hitchcock (2022)
The Making of a Filmmaker
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > The Lodger
Dreams of Flight (2021)
"The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture
by Dana Polan
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > High Sierra
Netflix Recommends (2021)
Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste
by Mattias Frey
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Cinema Off Screen (2021)
Moviegoing in Socialist China
by Chenshu Zhou
Publisher: University of California Press
The Stuff of Spectatorship (2021)
Material Cultures of Film and Television
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
Struggles for Recognition (2021)
Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures (2021)
A Critical Anthology
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Film Analysis
Everyday Movies (2020)
Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Projection
The Public Life of Cinema (2020)
Conflict and Collectivity in Austerity Greece
by Toby Lee
Publisher: University of California Press
Dialectics without Synthesis (2020)
Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
In the Studio (2020)
Visual Creation and Its Material Environments
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Set Design
Sporting Blackness (2020)
Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Arab Modernism as World Cinema (2020)
The Films of Moumen Smihi
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Moumen Smihi
Making Images Move (2020)
Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Cold War Cosmopolitanism (2020)
Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Martial Law Melodrama (2020)
Lino Brocka's Cinema Politics
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Lino Brocka
University Babylon (2019)
Film and Race Politics on Campus
by Curtis Marez
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Films for the Colonies (2019)
Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire
by Tom Rice
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Frame by Frame (2019)
A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
by Hannah Frank and Daniel Morgan
Publisher: University of California Press
Comic Books Incorporated (2019)
How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Cartoon Vision (2019)
UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics
by Dan Bashara
Publisher: University of California Press
Runaway Hollywood (2019)
Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes (2019)
How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture
Publisher: University of California Press
John Waters (2018)
Indecent Exposure
Dir. Kristen Hileman
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > John Waters
Traumatic Imprints (2018)
Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War
by Noah Tsika
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Foundational Films (2018)
Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil
by Maite Conde
Publisher: University of California Press
Mock Classicism (2018)
Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960
by Nilo Couret
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Los Angeles Documentary (2018)
and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977
by Joshua Glick
Publisher: University of California Press
Cinema's Military Industrial Complex (2018)
Dir. Haidee Wasson and Lee Grieveson
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Cinema and the Wealth of Nations (2017)
Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Agnes Varda between Film, Photography, and Art (2017)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Agnès Varda
Charles Burnett (2017)
A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Charles Burnett
Off the Page (2017)
Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence
by Daniel Bernardi and Julian Hoxter
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Hokum! (2017)
The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture
by Rob King
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Hymns for the Fallen (2017)
Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam
by Todd Decker
Publisher: University of California Press
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination (2017)
Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture
by Eric Herhuth
Publisher: University of California Press
Politicking and Emergent Media (2016)
US Presidential Elections of the 1890s
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Curious Humanist (2016)
Siegfried Kracauer in America
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Film Analysis
Speaking Truths with Film (2016)
Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary
by Bill Nichols
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Stealing the Show (2016)
African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Latin American Cinema (2016)
A Comparative History
by Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Precarious Creativity (2016)
Global Media, Local Labor
Dir. Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
L.A. Rebellion (2015)
Creating a New Black Cinema
Dir. Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Menus for Movieland (2015)
Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture 1913-1916
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
A Hidden History of Film Style (2015)
Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923 (2015)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Amateur Cinema (2014)
The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Amateur cinema
Film Rhythm after Sound (2014)
Technology, Music, and Performance
by Lea Jacobs
Publisher: University of California Press
Andre Bazin's New Media (2014)
by André Bazin and Dudley Andrew
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
Distribution Revolution (2014)
Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television
by Michael Curtin, Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > All techniques
Hollywood Vault (2014)
Film Libraries before Home Video
by Eric Hoyt
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Star Trek and American Television (2014)
by Roberta Pearson and Máire Messenger Davies
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > Star Trek (TV Series)
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist (2014)
Reading the Hollywood Reds
by Jeff Smith
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Videoland (2014)
Movie Culture at the American Video Store
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary (2013)
The Cambridge Turn
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens (2013)
Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Precocious Charms (2013)
Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Late Godard (2012)
and the Possibilities of Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Jean-Luc Godard
Shadow of a Mouse (2012)
Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation
Publisher: University of California Press
Ride, Boldly Ride (2012)
The Evolution of the American Western
by Mary Lea Bandy and Kevin Stoehr
Publisher: University of California Press
The Thrill Makers (2012)
Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance
by Jacob Smith
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
The Black Hole of the Camera (2012)
The Films of Andy Warhol
by J. J. Murphy
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Andy Warhol
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (2012)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Harpo Marx
Twilight of the Idols (2011)
Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue (2011)
Eight Reflections on Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Michelangelo Antonioni
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray (2010)
by Keya Ganguly
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Satyajit Ray
Visions of Japanese Modernity (2010)
Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
by Aaron Gerow
Publisher: University of California Press
Chanteuse in the City (2010)
The Realist Singer in French Film
Publisher: University of California Press
Hidden Talent (2009)
The Emergence of Hollywood Agents
by Tom Kemper
Publisher: University of California Press
Moving Viewers (2009)
American Film and the Spectator's Experience
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
The Fun Factory (2008)
The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
by Rob King
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Haunted Screen (2008)
Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt
Publisher: University of California Press
Vocal Tracks (2008)
Performance and Sound Media
by Jacob Smith
Publisher: University of California Press
Fight Pictures (2008)
A History of Boxing and Early Cinema
by Dan Streible
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Decline of Sentiment (2008)
American Film in the 1920s
by Lea Jacobs
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Hollywood in the Neighborhood (2008)
Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Cinema and Fascism (2008)
Italian Film and Society, 1922–1943
by Steven Ricci
Publisher: University of California Press
Mining the Home Movie (2007)
Excavations in Histories and Memories
by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Body Shots (2007)
Early Cinema's Incarnations
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
How the West Was Sung (2007)
Music in the Westerns of John Ford
Publisher: University of California Press
Uncanny Bodies (2007)
The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre
Publisher: University of California Press
The Frodo Franchise (2007)
The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > The Lord of the Rings
Playing to the World's Biggest Audience (2007)
The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV
Publisher: University of California Press
Beyond the Soundtrack (2007)
Representing Music in Cinema
Dir. Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer and Richard Leppert
Publisher: University of California Press
Hollywood Be Thy Name (2007)
African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Discovering Orson Welles (2007)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Orson Welles
Americanizing the Movies and Movie-Mad Audiences (2006)
1910-1914
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Way Hollywood Tells It (2006)
Story and Style in Modern Movies
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Beyond the Multiplex (2006)
Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Five Films by Frederick Wiseman (2006)
Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing
Dir. Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Frederick Wiseman
On The Passion of the Christ (2006)
Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > The Passion of the Christ
The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson (2005)
Secret Agents, Private I
Dir. Meredith Tromble
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Lynn Hershman Leeson
Icons of Grief (2005)
Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Others persons > Val Lewton
Museum Movies (2005)
The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
The Most Typical Avant-Garde (2005)
History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles
by David James
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Trauma Cinema (2005)
Documenting Incest and the Holocaust
by Janet Walker
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Migrating to the Movies (2005)
Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Figures Traced in Light (2005)
On Cinematic Staging
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
Policing Cinema (2004)
Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
The New German Cinema (2003)
Music, History, and the Matter of Style
by Caryl Flinn
Publisher: University of California Press
Bunuel and Mexico (2003)
The Crisis of National Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Luis Buñuel
Sundance to Sarajevo (2003)
Film Festivals and the World They Made
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Festivals
The Garden in the Machine (2001)
A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde (2001)
by Bill Nichols
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Maya Deren
Overhearing Film Dialogue (2000)
Publisher: University of California Press
Endless Night (1999)
Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories
Dir. Janet Bergstrom
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
Lawrence of Arabia (1999)
A Film's Anthropology
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > Lawrence of Arabia
The Red Rooster Scare (1999)
by Richard Abel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1999)
Publisher: University of California Press
Series: Non-Series
3rd Revised edition
Subject: Director > Akira Kurosawa
Bad Girls and Sick Boys (1998)
Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
The Films of Oshima Nagisa (1998)
Images of a Japanese Iconoclast
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Nagisa Ôshima
Refiguring American Film Genres (1998)
Theory and History
Dir. Nick Browne
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > All Genres
The Wages of Sin (1997)
Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942
by Lea Jacobs
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
The Making of Citizen Kane (1996)
Publisher: University of California Press
Series: Non-Series
2nd Revised edition
Subject: One Film > Citizen Kane
Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (1996)
Dir. Leo Charney and Vanessa Schwartz
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Nickel Was for the Movies (1995)
Film in the Novel from Pirandello to Puig
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: General
Placing Movies (1995)
The Practice of Film Criticism
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Film Analysis
Fields of Vision (1995)
Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology, and Photography
by Leslie Devereaux and Roger Hillman
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
The Crisis of Political Modernism (1995)
Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Criticism
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Film Analysis
Alfred Hitchcock (1995)
A Filmography and Bibliography
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture (1994)
The Silent Era
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
Moving Targets (1994)
Women, Murder, and Representation
by Helen Birch
Publisher: University of California Press
Black African Cinema (1994)
Publisher: University of California Press
Romance and the "Yellow Peril" (1994)
Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Redefining Black Film (1993)
by Mark A. Reid
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Eloquent Gestures (1992)
The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > David W. Griffith
Echo and Narcissus (1991)
Women's Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema
by Amy Lawrence
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Before the Nickelodeon (1991)
Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Edwin S. Porter
Life to Those Shadows (1990)
by Noël Burch
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Acting in the Cinema (1990)
Publisher: University of California Press
Invisible Storytellers (1989)
Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: General
Great Directors at Work (1987)
Stanislavsky, Brecht, Kazan, Brook
Publisher: University of California Press
Antonioni, or, The Surface of the World (1985)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Before Griffith (1984)
by John L. Fell
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Sixguns and Society (1977)
A Structural Study of the Western
by Will Wright
Publisher: University of California Press
The films of Orson Welles (1970)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Orson Welles
• Interviews (15 books)(5 books)
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1 (2014)
Selected Writings and Interviews
by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Gottlieb
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2 (2014)
Selected Writings and Interviews
by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Gottlieb
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Masters of Light (2013)
Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers
by Dennis Schaefer and Larry Salvato
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
Backstory 5 (2009)
Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s
Dir. Patrick McGilligan
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Adventures of Perception (2009)
Cinema as Exploration
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
James Ivory in Conversation (2006)
How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > James Ivory
A Critical Cinema 5 (2006)
Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director
Backstory 4 (2006)
Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
A Critical Cinema 4 (2005)
Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director
A Critical Cinema 3 (1998)
Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director
A Critical Cinema 2 (1992)
Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director
John Ford (1992)
Publisher: University of California Press
Series: Non-Series
Revised and enlarged edition
A Critical Cinema 1 (1988)
Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director
• Stories (20 books)(7 books)
Dancing Down the Barricades (2024)
Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Sammy Davis Jr.
Hard-Boiled Hollywood (2017)
Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles
by Jon Lewis
Publisher: University of California Press
Voices of Labor (2017)
Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood
Dir. Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans (2017)
The Lure of the Local Film Economy
by Vicki Mayer
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Music Makes Me (2011)
Fred Astaire and Jazz
by Todd Decker
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Fred Astaire
Violette Noziere (2011)
A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris
by Sarah Maza
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > Violette Nozière
Radical Light (2010)
Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000
Dir. Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Experimental
Canyon Cinema (2008)
The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Scenes of Instruction (2007)
The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film
by Dana Polan
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Film Analysis
It's All True (2007)
Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Orson Welles
Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary (2006)
Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s
by Valeria Belletti and Cari Beauchamp
Publisher: University of California Press
Hollywood Quarterly (2002)
Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957
Dir. Eric Smoodin and Ann Martin
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
Hitchcock and Selznick (1999)
The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Picturing Casablanca (1994)
Portraits of Power in a Modern City
by Susan Ossman
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Magnificent Ambersons (1993)
A Reconstruction
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > The Magnificent Ambersons
Hollywood Goes to War (1990)
How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies
by Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
• Screenplays (7 books)(0 book)
Double Indemnity (2000)
The Complete Screenplay
by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > Double Indemnity
The Lost Weekend (2000)
The Complete Screenplay
by Billy Wilder
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > The Lost Weekend
Sunset Boulevard (1999)
by Billy Wilder
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > Sunset Boulevard
Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges (1998)
The Power and the Glory, Easy Living, and Remember the Night
by Preston Sturges and Andrew Horton
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: One Film > Remember the Night, The Power and the Glory, Easy Living
Screen Writings (1995)
Texts and Scripts from Independent Films
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
• Didactic (9 books)(3 books)
Creativity and Copyright (2019)
Legal Essentials for Screenwriters and Creative Artists
by John L. Geiger and Howard Suber
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Closely Watched Films (2014)
An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique
by Marilyn Fabe
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Film Analysis
Celluloid Symphonies (2011)
Texts and Contexts in Film Music History
Dir. Julie Hubbert
Publisher: University of California Press
Screenwriting for a Global Market (2004)
Selling Your Scripts from Hollywood to Hong Kong
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay (2000)
Updated and Expanded edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Laughing Out Loud (2000)
Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (1997)
A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Movies and Methods, Volume 2 (1985)
by Bill Nichols
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Film Analysis
Movies and Methods, Volume 1 (1976)
Dir. Bill Nichols
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Film Analysis
• Filmmakers' writings (3 books)(0 book)
An Unspeakable Betrayal (2002)
Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel
by Luis Buñuel
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Luis Buñuel
I Was Interrupted (1995)
Nicholas Ray on making movies
by Nicholas Ray and Susan Ray
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Nicholas Ray
Kino-Eye (1985)
The Writings of Dziga Vertov
by Dziga Vertov
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Dziga Vertov
• Writings (1 book)(0 book)
Antonin Artaud (1988)
Selected Writings
by Antonin Artaud and Susan Sontag
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Actor > Antonin Artaud
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