Best Books about The History of World Cinema

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Sculpting in Time
Sculpting in Time 4.50 avg rating — 6,303 ratings
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Hitchcock/Truffaut 4.48 avg rating — 9,065 ratings
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Notes on the Cinematographer
Notes on the Cinematographer 4.20 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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The Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern 4.08 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
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My Autobiography
My Autobiography 4.03 avg rating — 8,116 ratings
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Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard 4.25 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer 4.08 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye
Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye 4.20 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film
Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film 4.14 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Making Movies
Making Movies 4.29 avg rating — 9,517 ratings
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Lynch on Lynch
Lynch on Lynch 4.27 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
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In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing 4.21 avg rating — 8,135 ratings
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The Time-Image
The Time-Image 4.19 avg rating — 1,285 ratings
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Masters of Cinema: Ingmar Bergman
Masters of Cinema: Ingmar Bergman 3.69 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Film as a Subversive Art
Film as a Subversive Art 4.30 avg rating — 699 ratings
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Memo from David O. Selznick
Memo from David O. Selznick 4.13 avg rating — 240 ratings
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L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels
L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels 4.37 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Oxford History of World Cinema
The Oxford History of World Cinema 4.04 avg rating — 319 ratings
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A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History 3.97 avg rating — 337 ratings
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What is Cinema? Volume I
What is Cinema? Volume I 4.13 avg rating — 1,861 ratings
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Scenes from a Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood
Scenes from a Revolution: The Birth of the New Hollywood 4.26 avg rating — 4,736 ratings
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The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema
The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema 4.16 avg rating — 124 ratings
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I, Fellini
I, Fellini 4.31 avg rating — 567 ratings
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Agnes Varda: Interviews
Agnes Varda: Interviews 4.38 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Jacques Tati: His Life and Art
Jacques Tati: His Life and Art 4.19 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film 4.34 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood 4.14 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film 3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Film Art: An Introduction
Film Art: An Introduction 4.08 avg rating — 2,560 ratings
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Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting 4.12 avg rating — 8,201 ratings
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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock 3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Something Like an Autobiography
Something Like an Autobiography 4.13 avg rating — 4,407 ratings
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Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image 4.11 avg rating — 2,273 ratings
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Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons 4.09 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Garbo
Garbo 4.02 avg rating — 462 ratings
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The Story of Film
The Story of Film 4.34 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
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The Great Movies
The Great Movies 4.26 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Invention of Hugo Cabret 4.22 avg rating — 188,171 ratings
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The Moon's a Balloon
The Moon's a Balloon 4.10 avg rating — 8,226 ratings
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Movies of the 40s
Movies of the 40s 4.34 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive 4.19 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Ethnographic Film
Ethnographic Film 3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Hollywood
Hollywood 3.81 avg rating — 27,015 ratings
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akira kurosawa: DESSINS
akira kurosawa: DESSINS 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Film History: An Introduction
Film History: An Introduction 4.11 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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Cinéma Militant. Histoire, structures, méthodes, idéologie et esthétique.
Cinéma Militant. Histoire, structures, méthodes, idéologie et esthétique. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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My Last Sigh
My Last Sigh 4.31 avg rating — 3,733 ratings
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Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers
Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers 4.26 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists
Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists 4.01 avg rating — 975 ratings
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Cassavetes on Cassavetes
Cassavetes on Cassavetes 4.46 avg rating — 676 ratings
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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human 3.70 avg rating — 6,944 ratings
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Het kunstwerk in het tijdperk van zijn technische reproduceerbaarheid
Het kunstwerk in het tijdperk van zijn technische reproduceerbaarheid 4.08 avg rating — 23,856 ratings
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Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film, the Art, the Vision
Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film, the Art, the Vision 4.43 avg rating — 10,143 ratings
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Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction And Film Diary
Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction And Film Diary 4.14 avg rating — 182,144 ratings
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Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death
Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death 4.44 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film 4.46 avg rating — 13,255 ratings
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Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema
Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir
Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir 4.21 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Scorsese on Scorsese
Scorsese on Scorsese 4.11 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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Francois Truffaut: The Complete Films
Francois Truffaut: The Complete Films 3.79 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade 4.02 avg rating — 2,780 ratings
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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich 4.08 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky 4.26 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky
The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Kubrick: The Definitive Edition
Kubrick: The Definitive Edition 4.33 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy
Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy 4.40 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future
Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future 3.78 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Glimmer Palace
The Glimmer Palace 3.72 avg rating — 2,031 ratings
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American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
by: Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Michael Powell: Interviews
Michael Powell: Interviews 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Sanshô Dayû
Sanshô Dayû 3.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
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All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!
All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made! 3.87 avg rating — 704 ratings
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Mystifying Movies: Fads & Fallacies In Contemporary Film Theory
Mystifying Movies: Fads & Fallacies In Contemporary Film Theory 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder
Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder 3.90 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Deviant Cinema: A History of Sexual Domination and Submission in the Movies
Deviant Cinema: A History of Sexual Domination and Submission in the Movies 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs 4.15 avg rating — 1,331,279 ratings
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How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia 3.80 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
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Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard 4.08 avg rating — 539 ratings
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Nanook of the North
Nanook of the North 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us 3.93 avg rating — 733 ratings
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Ultimate Movie Trivia Quiz: 503 Fun Trivia Questions and Answers Decade by Decade
Ultimate Movie Trivia Quiz: 503 Fun Trivia Questions and Answers Decade by Decade liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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My Years With Apu
My Years With Apu 4.45 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Sidney Lumet: A Life
Sidney Lumet: A Life 3.66 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Cinéma vivant
Cinéma vivant 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Salon of Exiled Artists in California: Salka Viertel took in actors, prominent intellectuals and anonymous people in exile fleeing from Nazism
The Salon of Exiled Artists in California: Salka Viertel took in actors, prominent intellectuals and anonymous people in exile fleeing from Nazism 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Poetics Of Cinema
Poetics Of Cinema 4.22 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Searching for John Ford
Searching for John Ford 4.42 avg rating — 189 ratings
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பாம்பின் கண் - தமிழ் சினிமா ஓர் அறிமுகம்
பாம்பின் கண் - தமிழ் சினிமா ஓர் அறிமுகம் 3.92 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Mi Negro Amigo: An Unauthorized New Analysis of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
Mi Negro Amigo: An Unauthorized New Analysis of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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[Charlie Chaplin Walk, The] [Author: Stephen P Smith] [April, 2010]
[Charlie Chaplin Walk, The] [Author: Stephen P Smith] [April, 2010] it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Life in Movies
A Life in Movies 4.33 avg rating — 106 ratings
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A History of Narrative Film
A History of Narrative Film 4.12 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Rebecca: The Making of a Hollywood Classic
Rebecca: The Making of a Hollywood Classic 3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Bring on the Empty Horses
Bring on the Empty Horses 4.13 avg rating — 3,336 ratings
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Historia del cine experimental
Historia del cine experimental 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Name Above The Title
The Name Above The Title 4.21 avg rating — 600 ratings
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light 4.03 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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Film: An International History of the Medium
Film: An International History of the Medium 4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy
Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy 3.75 avg rating — 156 ratings
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