Film Books of 2023 (Non-Fiction)
1. 
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
by:
Michael Schulman
4.08 avg rating — 5,410 ratings 2. 
The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
by:
Nick de Semlyen
4.12 avg rating — 2,907 ratings 3. 
Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
by:
David Zucker
4.17 avg rating — 3,502 ratings 
6. 
Jacques Rivette and French New Wave Cinema: Interviews, Conversations, Chronologies
by:
James R. Russo
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 7. 
Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes
by:
Charles Bramesco
3.96 avg rating — 168 ratings 8. 
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
by:
Matt Singer
4.05 avg rating — 3,022 ratings 9. 
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges
by:
Stuart Klawans
4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings 9. 
Cary Grant’s Suit: Nine Movies That Made Me the Wreck I Am Today
by:
Todd McEwen
3.63 avg rating — 81 ratings 
11. 
Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation 3.96 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love
by:
Laura Dern
3.91 avg rating — 4,499 ratings 15. 
Steven Spielberg: All the Films: The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short
by:
Olivier Bousquet
4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings 16. 
Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me
by:
Aisha Harris
3.81 avg rating — 1,545 ratings 17. 
Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
by:
Laurence Leamer
3.41 avg rating — 1,196 ratings 18. 
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
by:
Maureen Ryan
3.85 avg rating — 3,063 ratings 
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Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
by:
Yunte Huang
3.81 avg rating — 508 ratings 20. 
The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Right Thing to Black Panther
by:
Ruth E. Carter
4.47 avg rating — 92 ratings 20. 
A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History
by:
Max Evry
4.13 avg rating — 347 ratings 20. 
But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films
by:
Kristen Lopez
3.36 avg rating — 1,066 ratings 25. 
Kind of a Big Deal: How Anchorman Stayed Classy and Became the Most Iconic Comedy of the Twenty-First Century
by:
Saul Austerlitz
3.48 avg rating — 249 ratings 
27. 
Elvis and the Colonel: An Insider's Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show Business
by:
Greg McDonald
3.82 avg rating — 127 ratings 
30. 
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
by:
Anna Bogutskaya
3.69 avg rating — 3,404 ratings 30. 
MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried: >>(A Companion to the 2023 PBS Film)
by:
Greg Mitchell
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 
39. 
Satyajit Ray Miscellany: On Life, Cinema, People & Much More
by:
Satyajit Ray
4.56 avg rating — 27 ratings 39. 
The Bruce Lee Code: How the Dragon Mastered Business, Confidence, and Success
by:
Thomas Lee
3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings 39. 
42. 
Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WW II Movie of All Time
by:
Dwayne Epstein
3.67 avg rating — 187 ratings 42. 
Kubrick and Control: Authority, Order and Independence in the Films and Working Life of Stanley Kubrick
by:
Jeremy Carr
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 45. 
Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 1953-1970
by:
James R. Russo
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 46. 
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Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen, and Holy Men: A Memoir
by:
Paul W. Williams
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 
50. 
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
by:
Tom Hanks
3.68 avg rating — 17,988 ratings 
55. 
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder (Film and Culture Series)
by:
David Bordwell
4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings 
55. 
Nosferatu in the 21st Century: A Critical Study
by:
Simon Bacon
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
62. 
Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock And The Wrong Men
by:
Jason Isralowitz
4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings 
64. 
The Fresh Prince Project: How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America
by:
Chris Palmer
3.85 avg rating — 317 ratings 
66. 
Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon: Inside the Creation of a Targaryen Dynasty
by:
Gina McIntyre
4.23 avg rating — 61 ratings 
68. 
Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
by:
John Higgs
4.15 avg rating — 727 ratings 
72. 
The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha
by:
Ethan Warren
3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings 
74. 
No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
by:
Erin Carlson
3.67 avg rating — 945 ratings 
78. 
Juliet: The Life and Afterlives of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine
by:
Sophie Duncan
4.12 avg rating — 66 ratings 
79. 
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film
by:
John Tenuto
4.57 avg rating — 42 ratings 81. 
But God Made Him a Poet: Watching John Ford in the 21st Century
by:
Tafoya, Scout
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 81. 
The Kubrickon: The Cult of Kubrick, Attention Capture, & the Inception of AI
by:
Jasun Horsley
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 83. 
The Queer Film Guide: 100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories
by:
Kyle Turner
4.06 avg rating — 79 ratings 
85. 
The Way They Were: How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen
by:
Robert Hofler
3.27 avg rating — 357 ratings 85. 
Marvel Studios' Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: The Art of the Movie
by:
Jess Harrold
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 
89. 
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
by:
Scott Eyman
4.10 avg rating — 584 ratings 
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Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness: The Art Of The Movie
by:
Jess Harrold
4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings 93. 
Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema (Film and Culture Series)
by:
Michael Zryd
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 93. 
Marvel Studios' Thor: Love & Thunder - The Art Of The Movie
by:
Jess Harrold
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
97. 
Trinh T. Minh-Ha: Traveling in the Dark
by:
Trinh T Minh-Ha
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
