This is goldmine of a thread, thanks to all for posting, I've got a few things to investigate over the next few weeks....I posted my book list over at the DVD Forums a few months back...they have a sticky thread running there like this thread (
A Book At Bedtime, located in the
Classic Cinema and DVD Forum) If anyone has a membership on that forum it might be worth checking out my post (on page 2 of the thread, 3rd post from top) because each one is linked to Amazon...handy for browsing....Anyway, here's the list, unlinked, and about 80% up to date...Sadly I could not find the cash for the Bava book !
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Silent Cinema (see also Directors, Actors section)
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THE PARADE’S GONE BY- Kevin Browlow
ADVENTURES WITH D.W. GRIFFITH – Karl Brown
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Hollywood and American Cinema
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THE GENIUS OF THE SYSTEM : Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era - Thomas Shatz
CITY OF NETS - A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's - Otto Friedrich
INSIDE WARNER BROS. (1935 – 1951) - Rudy Behlmer
TENDER COMRADES : A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist - Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle
"YOU AIN'T HEARD NOTHIN' YET" : The American Talking Film History and Memory 1927-1949 – Andrew Sarris
THE WHOLE EQUATION : A History of Hollywood - David Thomson
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE – Robert Evans
EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood – Peter Biskind
DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film - Peter Biskind
THE EGOS HAVE LANDED: Rise and Fall of Palace Pictures - Angus Finney
Not a Hollywood book, but a great read about UK indie Palace...remember the great Palace VHS cases ?
HOLLYWOOD BABYLON : The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets – Kenneth Anger
HOLLYWOOD BABYLON 2 – Kenneth Anger
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Directors Biographies Part 1 (Hollywood, Classic cinema)
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D.W. GRIFFITH : An American Life - Richard Schickel
CHAPLIN: His Life and Art - David Robinson
CHARLES CHAPLIN: My Autobiography - Charlie Chaplin
SEARCHING FOR JOHN FORD: A LIFE - Joseph McBride
ABOUT JOHN FORD – Lindsay Anderson
THE DARK SIDE OF GENIUS: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock - Donald Spoto
ALFRED HITCHCOCK : A Life in Darkness and Light - Patrick McGilligan
HITCHCOCK'S NOTEBOOKS: An Authorized And Illustrated Look Inside The Creative Mind Of Alfred Hitchcock - Dan Auiler
THE HITCHCOCK MURDERS - Peter Conrad
GEORGE CUKOR: A DOUBLE LIFE : A Biography of the Gentleman Director - Patrick McGilligan
FRANK CAPRA: The Castastrophe of Success - Joseph McBride
FRITZ LANG: The Nature of the Beast - Patrick McGilligan
DESPITE THE SYSTEM : Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios - Clinton Heylin
THIS IS ORSON WELLES - Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich
SIRK ON SIRK: Interviews with Jon Halliday
ON SUNSET BOULEVARD : The Life and Times of Billy Wilder - Ed Sikov
KAZAN ON KAZAN - Elia Kazan, Jeff Young
ELIA KAZAN: A Life - Elia Kazan
NICHOLAS RAY : An American Life - Bernard Eisenschitz, Tom Milne
A THIRD FACE : My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking - Sam Fuller
A SIEGEL FILM: An Autobiography - Don Siegel
CASSAVETES ON CASSAVETES - John Cassavetes, Ray Carney
STANLEY KUBRICK: A Biography - Vincent Lobrutto
JOESPH LOSEY: A Revenge on Life - David Caute
SAM PECKINPAH: If They Move...Kill 'em! - David Weddle
SCORSESE ON SCORSESE – Martin Scorsese
SCRADER ON SCRADER – Paul Scrader
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA: A Filmmaker's Life - Michael Schumacher
COPPOLA: A Biography - Peter Cowie
GEORGE LUCAS – John Baxter
STEVEN SPIELBERG – Joseph McBride
STONE: A Biography of Oliver Stone - James Riordan
WOODY ALLEN ON WOODY ALLEN - Woody Allen
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Directors Biographies Part 2 (World Cinema, Classic Cinema continued)
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THE EMPEROR AND THE WOLF: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune - Stuart Galbraith
INGMAR BERGMAN: A Critical Biography - Peter Cowie
PASOLINI REQUIEM - Barth David Schwartz
COCTEAU: A Biography - Francis Steegmuller
GODARD ON GODARD: Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard - Jean-Luc Godard
LETTERS – Jean Renoir
LETTERS – Francois Truffaut
TIME WITHIN TIME: DIARIES, 1970-86 - Andrei Tarkovsky
SCULPTING IN TIME: Reflections on the Cinema - Andrei Tarkovsky
DAVID LEAN: A Biography - Kevin Brownlow
A LIFE IN MOVIES - Michael Powell
EMERIC PRESSBURGER: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter - Kevin Macdonald
ADVENTURES OF A SUBURBAN BOY - John Boorman
MALLE ON MALLE - Louis Malle, Philip French (Editor)
KIESLOWSKI ON KIESLOWSKI - Krzysztof Kieslowski
ROMAN BY POLANSKI - Roman Polanski
SERGIO LEONE - Something to Do With Death - Christopher Frayling
HERZOG ON HERZOG – Wener Herzog
PAUL VERHOEVEN - Rob Van Scheers
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Directors Biographies Part 3 (Cult Cinema)
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ALTERED STATES: The Autobiography of Ken Russell - Ken Russell
CRONENBERG ON CRONENBERG – David Cronenberg
LYNCH ON LYNCH – David Lynch
THE ZOMBIES THAT ATE PITTSBURGH: The Films of George A. Romero - Paul R. Gagne
BROKEN MIRRORS/BROKEN MINDS: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento - Maitland McDonagh
ART OF DARKNESS: The Cinema of Dario Argento - Chris John Gallant
PROFONDO ARGENTO - Alan Jones
FANTASY FILM MEMORY: Directed By Dario Argento – John Martin
No link for this I’m afraid, it’s a 1991 English language French publication, (there’s a Jess Franco one too).
BEYOND TERROR: Films of Lucio Fulci - Stephen Thrower
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST: And the Savage Cinema of Ruggero Deodato - Fenton, Grainger, Castoldi
BIG BOSOMS AND SQUARE JAWS: The Biography of Russ Meyer - Jimmy McDonough
A TASTE OF BLOOD: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis - Christopher Curry
AGITATOR: The Cinema of Takashi Miike - Tom Mes
DEREK JARMAN - Tony Peake
DESPERATE VISIONS: The Films of John Waters & the Kuchar Brothers - Jack Stevenson
SEX MURDER ART: Films of Jorg Buttgereit - David Kerekes
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Actors, Producers Biographies
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SHOWMAN: The Life of David O. Selznick - David Thomson
MEMO FROM DAVID O. SELZNICK : The Creation of "Gone with the Wind" and Other Motion Picture Classics, as Revealed in the Producer's Private Letters, Telegrams, Memorandums, and Autobiographical Remarks - David O. Selznick, Rudy Behlmer
LION OF HOLLYWOOD: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer - Scott Eyman
SAM SPIEGEL - Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni
HOW I MADE A HUNDRED MOVIES IN HOLLYWOOD AND NEVER LOST A DIME - Roger Corman
MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields - Simon Louvish
THE LAST HERO: a Biography of Gary Cooper - Larry Swindell
CHARLES LAUGHTON: A Difficult Actor - Simon Callow
FATAL CHARM: The Life of Rex Harrison - Alexander Walker
IN THE ARENA: An Autobiography - Charlton Heston
WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT - Michael Caine
JOHN WAYNE : The Politics of Celebrity - Garry Wills
BRANDO - Peter Manso
STEVE MCQUEEN: Portrait of an American Rebel - Marshall Terrill
KINSKI UNCUT: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski - Klaus Kinski
BRUCE LEE: Fighting Spirit - Bruce Thomas
IF CHINS COULD KILL: Confessions of a B Movie Actor - Bruce Campbell
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Japanese Cinema
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A HUNDRED YEARS OF JAPANESE FILM: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos - Donald Richie
THE MIDNIGHT EYE GUIDE TO NEW JAPANESE FILM - Tom Mes
OUTLAW MASTERS OF JAPANESE FILM - Chris D.
EROS IN HELL: Sex, Blood and Madness in Japanese Cinema - Jack Hunter
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Cult Film Writing (Horror, Exploitation, Sci-fi)
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THE OVERLOOK FILM ENCYCLOPEDIA: HORROR (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series) - Phil Hardy
THE OVERLOOK FILM ENCYCLOPEDIA: SCIENCE FICTION (The Overlook Film Encyclopedia Series) - Phil Hardy
THE PSYCHOTRONIC VIDEO GUIDE TO FILM - Michael J. Weldon
SLEAZOID EXPRESS: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square - Bill Landis
SLIMETIME: A Guide to Sleazy, Mindless Movies - Steven Puchalski
NIGHTMARE MOVIES: A Critical Guide To Horror Films - Kim Newman
KILLING FOR CULTURE: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff - David Kerekes
LOST HIGHWAYS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ROAD MOVIES - Jack Sargeant
THE MONSTER SHOW: A Cultural History of Horror - David J. Skal
FLESH AND BLOOD COMPENDIUM: Cinema and Video for Adults - Harvey Fenton
BOOK OF THE DEAD: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema - Jamie Russell
DVD DELIRIUM VOLUMES 1 / 2 / 3 : The International Guide to Weird and Wonderful Films on DVD - Nathaniel Thompson
EYEBALL COMPENDIUM: Sex & Horror, Art & Exploitation - Stephen Thrower
SEE NO EVIL: Banned Films and Video Controversy - David Kerekes
SHOCK! HORROR!: Astounding Artwork from the Video Nasty Era - Marc Morris
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Books about Individual films
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PICTURE - Lillian Ross
THE DEVIL'S CANDY: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood - Julie Salamon
FINAL CUT : Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists - Steven Bach
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE COMPANION - Stefan Jaworzyn
CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES: The Complete History of Friday the 13th - Peter M. Bracke
WES CRAVEN'S LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT - David A. Szulkin
WILLIAM PETER BLATTY ON THE EXORCIST: From Novel To Film - William Peter Blatty
THE APOCALYPSE NOW BOOK - Peter Cowie
NOTES ON THE MAKING OF APOCALYPSE NOW - Eleanor Coppola
MONEY INTO LIGHT: A Diary - John Boorman
This is John Boorman's journel of making THE EMERALD FOREST
