Best Books on Film

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List of books, both fiction and non-fiction, about film
1
Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies
by Robert Sklar
431 members
5 reviews
3.8
3 Members
ABVR, eromsted, smcwl
3
Hitchcock: A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock
by François Truffaut
1,757 members
20 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
longway, Ravic
4
Easy riders, raging bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock 'n' roll generation saved Hollywood
by Peter Biskind
1,565 members
28 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ABVR, kageeh
5
Adventures in the Screen Trade
by William Goldman
1,205 members
18 reviews
4
2 Members
ABVR, kageeh
7
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
by Neal Gabler
476 members
8 reviews
3.9
2 Members
ABVR, Diane-bpcb
8
Conversations with Wilder
by Cameron Crowe
345 members
9 reviews
4
2 Members
longway, Diane-bpcb
9
Film as a Subversive Art
by Amos Vogel
293 members
2 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
Nicole_VanK, darkhalf
12
A World History of Film
by Robert Sklar
35 members
½ 4.7
2 Members
eromsted, smcwl
13
Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis, 2nd Expanded Edition
by Barry Salt
35 members
3.8
2 Members
smcwl, Nicole_VanK
14
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
by Vito Russo
858 members
6 reviews
4.2
Member
aulsmith
15
Which Lie Did I Tell? : More Adventures in the Screen Trade
by William Goldman
723 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
ABVR
16
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
by Donald Spoto
510 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
longway
17
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
by Molly Haskell
431 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ABVR
18
Five Came Back : A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
by Mark Harris
414 members
14 reviews
4
Member
Diane-bpcb
19
The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
by Thomas Schatz
362 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
ABVR
20
The Films in My Life
by François Truffaut
305 members
3.9
Member
Ravic
21
The Star Machine
by Jeanine Basinger
270 members
9 reviews
4.2
Member
Diane-bpcb
23
Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat
by Edward McPherson
139 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
eromsted
24
The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties
by J. Hoberman
106 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
eromsted
25
On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
by Ed Sikov
100 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
Diane-bpcb
26
Elia Kazan: A Biography
by Richard Schickel
92 members
½ 3.4
Member
eromsted
27
The Hollywood Studios
by Ethan Mordden
83 members
½ 4.3
Member
ABVR
28
Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
by Jill Watts
75 members
3.9
Member
eromsted
29
Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation
by Giannalberto Bendazzi
75 members
½ 3.7
Member
Nicole_VanK
30
What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting
by Marc Norman
73 members
½ 3.3
Member
ABVR
31
Experimental Animation : Origins of a new art
by Robert Russett
63 members
1 review
½ 4.4
Member
Nicole_VanK
32
Billy Wilder. Eine Nahaufnahme.
by Hellmuth Karasek
56 members
4
Member
Ravic
33
Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff
by Tom Zaniello
47 members
4
Member
eromsted
34
Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry
by Mel Watkins
35 members
1 review
4
Member
eromsted
35
Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s
by Ethan Mordden
34 members
½ 4.3
Member
ABVR
38
Film noir. Die Schattenspiele der schwarzen Serie.
by Paul Werner
5 members
4
Member
Ravic
39
Sailor Song
by Ken Kesey
689 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
40
Flicker
by Theodore Roszak
630 members
12 reviews
3.9
41
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
by Mark Cousins
385 members
1 review
4.2
42
Cronenberg on Cronenberg
by David Cronenberg
266 members
3 reviews
4.2
43
The Affair of the Mutilated Mink
by James Anderson
245 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
44
Robert Mitchum
by Lee Server
193 members
3 reviews
3.8
45
Gilliam on Gilliam (Directors on Directors)
by Terry Gilliam
187 members
3.9
46
The A-Z of Horror Films
by Howard Maxford
19 members
½ 3.6