books by subject
The Performing Arts

Because I Tell a Joke or Two: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference

Reel To Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

Genre

Anthropology-Reality-Cinema: Films of Jean Rouch

Movies and Methods, Volume 2

Nonfiction Film: A Critical History

Complete Idiot's Guide to Movies, Flicks, and Films

Pictures Will Talk: Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The Complete Film Dictionary

Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema

Movies and Methods, Volume 1

Before & Laughter: The funniest man in the UK's genuinely useful guide to life

Zog and the Flying Doctors Early Reader

Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions Manual

Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film

Anatomy of Film

Humphrey Jennings: Film-maker, Painter, Poet

Life to Those Shadows

Capital and Cultures: German Cinema, 1933-45

Film Sound: Theory and Practice

Popular Television and Film (Set books)

Follow Your Dreams

Halliwell's Film Guide

Scorsese on Scorsese

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings

Hitch: Life and Work of Alfred Hitchcock

Film Genre Reader

The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960

You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and Men
