Understanding movies

Louis D. Giannetti

1972 ★ 3.7

A history of narrative film

David A. Cook

1981

Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks

Donald Bogle

1973

A short history of the movies

Bruce Kawin, Gerald Mast

1971

American cinema/American culture

John Belton

1994

Film history

Kristin Thompson

1994

Movie-made America

Robert Sklar

1975

How to read a film

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

1981

Easy riders, raging bulls

Peter Biskind

1998

Documentary

Erik Barnouw

1974

Hollywood cinema

Ian Craven, Richard Maltby

1996

Hollywood genres

Thomas Schatz

1981

The Parade's Gone By...

Kevin Brownlow

1968

America on Film

Sean P. Griffin, Harry M. Benshoff

2004

Film

William H. Phillips

1999

The Disney Films

Leonard Maltin

1973

Pictures at a Revolution

Mark Harris

2008

Behind the screen

William J. Mann

2001

Film/genre

Rick Altman

1999

Complicated women

Mick LaSalle

2001

Film history

Douglas Gomery, Robert Clyde Allen, Robert C. Allen

1985

The Lavender Screen

Boze Hadleigh

1993

Hollywood Goes to War

Clayton R. Koppes

1987

Final cut

Steven Bach

1986

Filmish

Edward Ross

2015

The story of film

Mark Cousins

2013

Vertigo

Dan Auiler

1998

A short history of the movies

Gerald Mast

2010

A history of film

Jack C. Ellis

1979

The official Godzilla compendium

J. D. Lees

1998