List of books on films

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This list of books on films is for books dedicated to individual films, film series, or related critical analyses.

American films

Avatar (2009)

Canty, James C. (29 January 2010). James Cameron's Avatar: Things You Might Not Know About Avatar, the Film by James Cameron. ISBN 978-1-4505-4619-5.
Grabiner, Ellen (11 June 2012). I See You: The Shifting Paradigms of James Cameron's Avatar. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9027-1.
Mahoney, Kevin Patrick (2010). The Ultimate Fan's Guide to Avatar: James Cameron's Epic Movie. Punked Books. ISBN 978-0-9533172-5-7.

Birth of a Nation (1915)

Merritt, Russell; Shepard, David (1992). Making The Birth of a Nation. Kino on Video.
Lang, Robert (1994). The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith, Director. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-2027-8.
Stokes, Melvyn (14 December 2007). D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-988751-4.

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Mast, Gerald (1988). Bringing Up Baby. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1341-6.
Swaab, Peter (4 January 2011). Bringing Up Baby. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-070-6.

Casablanca (1942)

Augé, Marc (2009). Casablanca: Movies and Memory. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5640-0.
Lebo, Harlan (1 October 1992). Casablanca: Behind the Scenes. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-76981-9.
Osborne, Richard E. (1997). The Casablanca Companion: The Movie Classic and Its Place in History. Riebel-Roque Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-9628324-3-7.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Barnes, Diana (1 November 2011). Citizen Kane. Insight Publications. ISBN 978-1-921088-63-6.
Carringer, Robert L. (1996). The Making of Citizen Kane. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20567-3.
Gottesman, Ronald (1996). Perspectives on Citizen Kane. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-1616-4.
Mulvey, Laura (4 September 2012). Citizen Kane. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-497-1.
Naremore, James (2004). Orson Welles's Citizen Kane: A Casebook. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515891-5.
Welles, Orson; Mankiewicz, Herman Jacob; Kael, Pauline (2002). Citizen Kane: the complete screenplay. Methuen. ISBN 978-0-413-77187-2.

Cold Mountain (2003)

Frazier, Charles; Auiler, Dan; Minghella, Anthony (30 November 2003). Cold Mountain: The Journey from Book to Film. Newmarket Press. ISBN 978-1-55704-593-5.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Althaus, Benjamin (18 November 2004). Communication in Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut". GRIN Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-32589-9.
Ruwe, Carolin (November 2007). Symbols in Stanley Kubrick's Movie 'Eyes Wide Shut'. GRIN Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-84176-4.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Modine, Matthew (25 October 2005). Full Metal Jacket Diary. Rugged Land.

The Godfather trilogy (1972–90)

Browne, Nick (2000). Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55950-8.
Lebo, Harlan (25 October 2005). The Godfather Legacy: The Untold Story of the Making of the Classic Godfather Trilogy Featuring Never-Before-Published Production Stills. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-8777-7.
Messenger, Chris (25 April 2002). The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang". SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-5357-5.
Sciannameo, Franco (11 October 2010). Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy: A Film Score Guide. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-6424-6.

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Bartel, Pauline (1 October 1989). The Complete Gone with the Wind Trivia Book: The Movie and More. Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4616-0422-8.
Bridges, Herb (1998). The Filming of Gone with the Wind. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-621-9.
Harwell, Richard Barksdale (1 February 1992). Gone With the Wind As Book and Film. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-87249-836-5.
Leitch, Thomas (1 March 2009). Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9187-8.
Molt, Cynthia Marylee (2012). Gone with the Wind on Film: A Complete Reference Work. McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub. ISBN 978-0-7864-7282-6.
Vertrees, Alan David (1997). Selznick's Vision: Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78729-2.

The Graduate (1967)

Whitehead, J.W. (22 December 2010). Appraising The Graduate: The Mike Nichols Classic and Its Impact in Hollywood. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-8481-2.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Basinger, Jeanine; Trustees, Frank Capra Archives (Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.). (12 October 1986). The "It's a wonderful life" book. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-55605-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Cox, Stephen (July 2004). It's a Wonderful Life: A Memory Book. Cumberland House. ISBN 978-1-58182-434-6.
Hawkins, Jimmy (21 November 1995). The It's a Wonderful Life: Trivia Book. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-517-88627-4.
Willian, Michael (1 October 2006). The Essential It's a Wonderful Life: A Scene-by-Scene Guide to the Classic Film. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-56976-428-2.
A Structural Analysis of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. GRIN Verlag. June 2012. ISBN 978-3-656-21211-9.

Lolita (1962)

Schulze, Kerstin (10 May 2011). A novel and its adaptation: Stanley Kubrick: Lolita (1962). GRIN Verlag. ISBN 978-3-640-91182-0.

Psycho (1960)

Hitchcock, Alfred; Anobile, Richard J. (1974). Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Pan Books. ISBN 978-0-330-24213-4.
Kolker, Robert Phillip (2004). Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516919-5.
Rebello, Stephen (16 June 2010). Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. Open Road Media. ISBN 978-1-4532-0122-0.
Skerry, Philip J. (1 January 2005). The Shower Scene in Hitchcock's Psycho: Creating Cinematic Suspense And Terror. Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-6051-5.
Smith III, Joseph W. (16 September 2009). The Psycho File: A Comprehensive Guide to Hitchcock's Classic Shocker. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5486-0.
Wells, Amanda Sheahan (2001). Psycho: director, Alfred Hitchcock. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-43191-1.

Schindler's List (1993)

Loshitzky, Yosefa (1 January 1997). Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21098-4.
Palowski, Franciszek (1998). The Making of Schindler's List: Behind the Scenes of an Epic Film. Carol Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-55972-445-6.

Star Wars franchise (1977–)

Bouzereau, Laurent; Duncan, Jody (1999). Star Wars: The Making of Episode I, The Phantom Menace. Ballantine Publ. Group. ISBN 978-0-345-43111-0.
Decker, Kevin S.; Eberl, Jason T.; Irwin, William (21 August 2013). Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine. Open Court. ISBN 978-0-8126-9701-8.
Rinzler, J. W. (2010). The Making of The Empire Strikes Back: Star Wars The Definitive Story. Del Rey Books. ISBN 978-0-345-50961-1.
Rinzler, J. W. (July 2008). The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-192499-7.
Star Wars and History. Lucasfilm, John Wiley & Sons. 15 October 2012. ISBN 978-1-118-28525-1.

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Staggs, Sam (4 February 2003). Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-4668-3046-2.
Wilder, Billy (1999). Sunset Boulevard. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21855-0. (screenplay)

Tootsie (1982)

Dworkin, Susan (28 August 2012). Making Tootsie: Inside the Classic Film with Dustin Hoffman and Sydney Pollack. Newmarket Press. ISBN 978-1-55704-966-7.

Touch of Evil (1958)

Comito, Terry (1985). Touch of Evil: Orson Welles, Director. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1097-2.

Vertigo (1958)

Auiler, Dan (21 November 2013). Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic: Special Edition. Dan Auiler. ISBN 978-1-311-53317-3.
Cunningham, Douglas A. (2012). The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8122-8.
Makkai, Katalin (21 August 2013). Vertigo. Routledge. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-136-23131-5.
Raubicheck, Walter; Srebnick, Walter (1991). Hitchcock's Rereleased Films: From Rope to Vertigo. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2326-X.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Harmetz, Aljean (2 December 1998). The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM. Hyperion. ISBN 978-0-7868-8352-3.
Rushdie, Salman (4 September 2012). The Wizard of Oz. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-516-9.

Asian films

Hong Kong

A Better Tomorrow (1986)

Fang, Karen Y. (2004). John Woo's A better tomorrow. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-652-3.

Ashes of Time (1994)

Dissanayake, Wimal (1 June 2003). Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-584-7.

An Autumn's Tale (1987)

Ford, Stacilee (1 April 2008). Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's An Autumn's Tale. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-894-7.

Bullet in the Head (1990)

Williams, Tony (2009). John Woo's Bullet in the Head. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-968-5.

Center Stage (1991)

Hjort, Mette (1 January 2007). Stanley Kwan's Center Stage. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-791-9.

Durian Durian (2000)

Gan, Wendy (1 May 2005). Fruit Chan's Durian Durian. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-743-8.

Happy Together (1997)

Tambling, Jeremy (1 June 2003). Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-588-5.

He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994)

Stokes, Lisa Odham (1 April 2009). Peter Ho-Sun Chan's He's a Woman, She's a Man. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-970-8.

Internal Affairs (2002–03)

Marchetti, Gina (1 April 2007). Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-801-5.

The Killer (1989)

Hall, Kenneth E. (1 January 2009). John Woo's The Killer. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-956-2.

Made in Hong Kong (1997)

Cheung, Esther M.K. (1 July 2009). Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-977-7.

PTU (2003)

Ingham, Michael (1 March 2009). Johnnie To Kei-Fung's PTU. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-919-7.

Song of the Exile (1990)

Yue, Audrey (1 March 2010). Ann Hui's Song of the Exile. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-988-8028-75-7.

Wing Chun (1994)

Vojkovic, Sasha (1 March 2009). Yuen Woo Ping's Wing Chun. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-967-8.

Indian

The Apu Trilogy (1955–59)

Chawdhary, Surendar (14 July 2011). The Pather Panchali of Satyajit Ray: An Illustrated Study. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6353-4.
Kutty, K. V. Raman; Ray, Satyajit (1982). A Critical Analysis of Satyajit Ray's Film Pather Panchali. Ohio State University.
Ray, Satyajit (2006). The Apu Trilogy. Seagull Books. ISBN 978-1-905422-06-7.
Ray, Satyajit (1984). Pather Panchali. Cine Central.
Robinson, Andrew (15 November 2010). The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-515-1.
Wood, Robin (1971). The Apu trilogy. Praeger.

Mother India (1957)

Chatterjee, Gayatri (2002). Mother India. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-302904-5.

Japanese

Breakwell, Ian (1995). An actor's revenge. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0-85170-524-8.
Ruoff, Jeffrey; Ruoff, Kenneth; Hara, Kazuo (1998). The emperor's naked army marches on. Flicks Books. ISBN 978-0-948911-05-7.
Mellen, Joan (1 April 2004). In the Realm of the Senses. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-034-8.
Andrew, Dudley; Cavanaugh, Carole (27 March 2000). Sanshô Dayû. BFI Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85170-815-7.
MacDonald, Keiko I. (1993). Ugetsu: Kenji Mizoguchi, Director. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1862-6.

A Page of Madness (1926)

Gerow, Aaron Andrew (2008). A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan. Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan. ISBN 978-1-929280-51-3.
Lewinsky, Mariann (1997). Eine Verrückte Seite: Stummfilm und filmische Avantgarde in Japan. Chronos. ISBN 978-3-905312-28-7.

Rashomon (1950)

Kurosawa, Akira; Richie, Donald (January 1987). Rashomon. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1180-1.
Richie, Donald (1972). Focus on Rashomon. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-752980-3.

Seven Samurai (1954)

Mellen, Joan (2002). Seven Samurai. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0-85170-915-4.
Stafford, Roy (1 October 2001). Seven samurai. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-45256-5.

Tokyo Story (1953)

Desser, David (13 April 1997). Ozu's Tokyo Story. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-48435-0.
Ozu, Yasujirō; Noda, Kōgo (2003). Tokyo Story: The Ozu/Noda Screenplay. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-880656-80-8.

Taiwanese

A Touch of Zen (1971)

Teo, Stephen (2007). King Hu's A Touch of Zen. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 978-962-209-815-2.

European films

British

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Agel, Jérôme (June 1970). The Making of Kubrick's 2001. New American Library.
Chion, Michel (2001). Kubrick's cinema odyssey. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0-85170-839-3.
Kolker, Robert (24 February 2006). Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey:New Essays. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-972436-9.
Wheat, Leonard F. (21 June 2000). Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-6023-1.

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Burgess, Anthony (2000). Stanley Kubrick's a Clockwork Orange: Based on the Novel by Anthony Burgess. ScreenPress Books. ISBN 978-1-901680-47-8.
Heide, Thomas von der (1 June 2006). A Clockwork Orange - The presentation and the impact of violence in the novel and in the film. GRIN Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-50681-6.
McDougal, Stuart Y. (7 July 2003). Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57488-4.
Volkmann, Maren (16 October 2006). "A Clockwork Orange" in the Context of Subculture. GRIN Verlag. ISBN 978-3-638-55498-5.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Caton, Steven Charles (1999). Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21083-7.
Jackson, Kevin (1 June 2007). Lawrence of Arabia. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-178-9.

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Thompson, Emma; Doran, Lindsay (1995). Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay and Diaries. Bloomsbury. ISBN 1-55704-782-0.

French

Breathless / À bout de souffle (1960)

Andrew, Dudley (1987). Breathless. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1253-2.

The Rules of the Game / La Regle de Jeu (1939)

Perkins, V.F. (4 September 2012). La Regle du jeu. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-0-85170-965-9.
Reader, Keith (15 April 2010). La Regle Du Jeu: French Film Guide. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-054-5.

German

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Cabinet Des Dr Caligari (1920)

Robinson, David (8 November 2013). Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-649-4.

Nosferatu (1922)

Ashbury, Roy (5 November 2001). Nosferatu: director, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Longman.
Prawer, Siegbert Salomon; Herzog, Werner (2004). Nosferatu--Phantom der Nacht. BFI Pub. ISBN 978-1-84457-031-7.

Italian

8½ (1963)

Benderson, Albert Edward (1 June 1974). Critical approaches to Federico Fellini's "8 1/2". Arno Press.
Affron, Charles (1 January 1987). Eight and a Half. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1211-2.
Miller, D.A. (15 July 2008). Eight and One Half. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-231-1.

New Zealand

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001–03)

Bell, Anita Miller (2009). "The Lord of the Rings" and the Emerging Generation: A Study of the Message and Medium. J. R. R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson. ProQuest. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-109-24676-6.
Margolis, Harriet; Cubitt, Sean; King, Barry (11 December 2012). Studying the Event Film: The Lord of the Rings. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-7199-7.
Russell, Gary (2004). The Art of The Lord of the Rings. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 142. ISBN 0-618-51083-4.
Sibley, Brian (November 2001). Lord of the Rings -Fellowship of the Ring:Insider's Guide. Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-713194-5.
Sibley, Brian (2001). The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. ISBN 978-0-00-711909-7.
Sibley, Brian (6 November 2002). The Lord of the Rings: the making of the movie trilogy. Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 978-0-618-26022-5.
Thompson, Kristin (2007). The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25813-6.