The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

1881 ★ 4.0

Film art

D. & THOMPSON BORDWELL, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson

1979 ★ 3.8

On directing film

David Mamet

1991 ★ 3.7

Looking at Movies

Richard Meran Barsam

2004 ★ 4.3

Screenplay

Syd Field

1982 ★ 4.4

Understanding movies

Louis D. Giannetti

1972 ★ 3.7

A history of narrative film

David A. Cook

1981

Il mistero del rubino d'Oriente

Elisabetta Dami

2016 ★ 4.7

Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks

Donald Bogle

1973

A short history of the movies

Bruce Kawin, Gerald Mast

1971

Deathwatch

Robb White

1973 ★ 5.0

American cinema/American culture

John Belton

1994

A short guide to writing about film

Timothy Corrigan

1991 ★ 3.7

Film history

Kristin Thompson

1994

Everything Leads to You

Nina LaCour

2014 ★ 4.2

Kitsch

Gillo Dorfles

1969

Female Masculinity

Jack Halberstam

1998 ★ 4.7

The monstrous-feminine

Barbara Creed

1993

Movie-made America

Robert Sklar

1975

How to read a film

James Monaco, Nick Drjuchin, Monaco, James. et al.

1981

Divine horsemen

Maya Deren

1983

Making movies

Sidney Lumet

1995

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Mike Connolly, Lillian Roth, Gerold Frank

1954

Femmes fatales

Mary Ann Doane

1991

Novels into film

George Bluestone

1957

The Addams Family

Elizabeth Faucher

1991

Reel to real

bell hooks

2008

The Film Encyclopedia

Ephraim Katz

1979

The sewing circle

Axel Madsen

1995

The Film Experience

Timothy Corrigan

2004