Fundamental Film Books/Writers

The American Cinema

Agee on Film
I Lost It At the Movies
The Great Movies
Midnight Movies
Negative Space
What is Cinema?
Making Movies
The Taste for Beauty
From Vietnam to Reagan
The Devil Finds Work
Hitchcock/Truffaut
From Caligari to Hitler
Film Art
On Filmmaking
Blink of an Eye
Allegories of Cinema
Theory of Film Practice
Mise-en-Scene and Film Style
From Reverence to Rape
Identity and Memory
The Devil Finds Work
The Material Ghost
The Genius of the System
Cassavetes on Cassavetes
Narration in Fiction Film
Genius of System
Film Theory/Criticism
Narrative Apparatus Cinema
Early Cinema Space Frame Narrative
Theory of Film
Star Image
Hitchcock’s Films Revisited
Movie-Made America
The Genius of the System
Hollywood Babylon
Vulgar Modernism
Films and Feelings
Film Form
Film Sense

Rosenbaum
Farber
Agee
Bazin
Haskell
Robin Wood
Bordwell & Thompson
Donald Richie
James Harvey
Dwight Macdonald
Eisenstein
Kael
McBride
Mulvey
Hoberman
Panofsky
Steve Neale
Steven Shaviro