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Books about film:

Sections: Film Theory. Silent Film & the Silent Era. Film & Society. Censorship. Poitics & the Film Industry. German Cinema. Film Reference. Film Reviews. Biographies. Screenplays.

Film Theory:

Balázs, Béla, Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art, (1970) Dover Publications, Inc: New York. 290 pp.
Bordwell, David, Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema, (1989) Harvard University Press: Cambridge. 334 pp.
Eisenstein, Sergei, Film Forum: Essays in Film Theory, (1949) edited & translated by Jay Leyda, Harvest Books: New York. 279 pp.
Eisenstein, Sergei, The Film Sense, (1942/1947) edited & translated by Jay Leyda, Harvest Books: New York. 279 pp.
Höllerer, Walter, hrsg., Sprache im Technischen Zeitalter: Zeichensystem Film: Versuche zu einer Semiotik, hrsg. Friedrich Knilli, No. 27, Juli - September 1968, Kohlhammer Verlag.
Kracauer, Siegfried, Theory of Film: the Redemption of Physical Reality, (1960) Oxford University Press: London. 364 pp.
Mast, Gerald & Cohen, Marshall (editors), Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, (1974) Oxford University Press: London. 639 pp.
Mayne, Judith, "The Woman at the Keyhole: Women's Cinema and Feminist Criticism," New German Critique, No. 23, Spring/Summer 1981, pp.27 - 43.
Münsterberg, Hugo, The Film: a Psychological Study. The Silent Photoplay in 1916, (1916/ 1970) Dover Publications, Inc.: New York. 100 pp.
Pudovkin, V.I., Film Technique and Film Acting, (1929/1937) & 1958. Translated & edited by Ivor Montagu, Grove Press Inc.: New York. 388 pp.
Waldman, Diane, "Critical Theory and Film: Adorno and 'The Culture Industry' Revisited," New German Critique, No. 12, Fall 1977, pp. 39 - 60.

Silent Film & Era:

Brownlow, Kevin, The Parade's Gone By: a vivid, nostalgic, immediate portrait of an art in the making, (1968) Bonanza Books: New York. 580 pp.
Brownlow, Kevin, The War, the West and the Wilderness, (1979) Alfred A. Knopf: New York. 602 pp.
Brownlow, Kevin, Behind the Mask of Innocence. Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era, (1990) Jonathan Cape: London. 579 pp.
Card, James, Seductive Cinema: the Art of the Silent Film, (1994) Alfred A. Knopf: New York. 319 pp.
Ceram, C.W., Archaeology of the Cinema, (1967) translated by Richard Winston. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.: New York. 264 pp.
Elsaesser, Thomas (editor), Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative, (1990) The British Film Institute: London. 424 pp.
Everson, William K., American Silent Film, (1978) Da Capo Press: New York. 387 pp.
Hansen, Miriam, Babel & Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film, (1991) Harvard University Press: Cambridge. 377 pp.
Lennig, Arthur, The Silent Voice: The Golden Age of the Cinema, (1969) Privately published by author? 367 pp.
MacGowan, Kenneth, Behind the Screen: the History and Techniques of the Motion Picture, (1965) Dell Publishing Co.: New York. 528 pp.
Ramsaye, Terry, A Million and One Nights: a History of the Motion Picture Through 1925, (1925) & 1964. Simon and Schuster: New York.
Ross, Steven J., Working Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America, (1998) Princeton University Press: Princeton. 367 pp.
Youngblood, Denise J., Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era 1918-1935, (1991) University of Texas Press: Austin. 336 pp.

Film & Society:

Bergman, Andrew, We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films, (1971) Harper Colophon Books, Harper & Row: New York. 200 pp.
Jacobs, Lea, The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942, (1995) University of California Press: Berkeley. 202 pp.
Kolker, Robert Phillip, A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman, (1988) Oxford University Press: New York. 442 pp.
Levy, Emanuel, Small-Town America in Film: the Decline and Fall of Community, (1991) Frederick Ungar Books, Continuum: New York. 298 pp.
May, Lary, Screening Out the Past: the Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry, (1980) Oxford University Press: New York. 304 pp.

Censorship:

Hamilton, Ian, Writers in Hollywood 1915-1951, (1990) Minerva Books: London. 326 pp.
Leff, Leonard J. & Simmons, Jerold L., The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s, (1990) Anchor Books/Doubleday: New York. 350 pp.
Randall, Richard S., Censorship of the Movies: The Social and Political Control of a Mass Medium, (1968) University of Wisconsin Press: Madison. 280 pp.
Walker, Alexander, Sex in the Movies: The Celluloid Sacrifice, (1968) Pelican Books: Baltimore, Maryland. 284 pp.

Politics and the Film Industry:

Ceplair, Larry & Englund, Steven, The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960, (1979) University of California Press: Berkeley. 546 pp.
Cogley, John, Report on Blacklisting: (I.) The Movies, (1956) The Fund for the Republic, Inc. 312 pp.
de Antonio, Emile & Talbot, Daniel (documentary producers) Point of Order: a Documentary of the Army-McCarthy Hearings, (1964) Documentary script published by W.W. Norton & Company: New York. 108 pp.
Furhammar, Leif & Isaksson, Folke, translated by Kersti Frnch, Politics and Film, (1968) Praeger Publishers: New York. 257 pp.
Hoffmann, Hilmar, The Triumph of Propaganda: Film and National Socialism, 1933 - 1945, trans. John A. Broadwin & V.R. Berghahn, Providence & Oxford, Berghahn Books, 1996, 258 pp.
Hull, David Stewart, Film in the Third Reich: a Study of the German Cinema 1933-1945, (1969) University of California Press: Berkeley. 291 pp.
Kracauer, Siegried, Von Caligari zu Hitler: Eine psychologische Geschichte des deutschen Films, mit 64 Abbildungen, übersetzt v. Ruth Baumgarten & Karsten Witte, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984, 632 S.
Kracauer, Siegried, From Caligari to Hitler: a Psychological History of the German Film, (1947) Princeton University Press: Princeton. 361 pp.
Kracauer, Siegried, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, trans., ed. & intro., Thomas Y. Levin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1995, 403 pp. [Contains the essays: "Calico- World: The UFA City in Neubabelsberg" [pp. 281 - 288]; "The Little Shopgirls Go To The Movies," [pp. 291 - 304]; "Film 1928," [pp. 307 - 320]; "Cult of Distraction: Berlin's Picture Palaces," [pp. 323 - 328].
Leiser, Erwin, Nazi Cinema, trans. Gertrud Mander & David Wilson, New York, Macmillan Publishing Co. (Collier Books), 1975, 179 pp.
Petley, Julian, Capital and Culture: German Cinema 1933 - 45, London, British Film Institute, 1979, 162 pp.
Wulf, Joseph, Theater und Film im Dritten Reich, Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag, 1966, 487 S.

German Cinema:

Bucher, Felix, Screen Series: Germany: An Illustrated Guide, New York, A.S. Barnes & Co., and London, A. Zwemmer Limited, 1970, 298 pp.
Eisner, Lotte, The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt, (1952) Translated by Roger Greaves, 1969. University of California Press: Berkeley. 360 pp.
Eisner, Lotte, F. W. Murnau, (1964) University of California Press: Berkeley. 287 pp.
Gregor, Ulrich, et al., Herzog/ Kluge/ Straub [Reihe Film 9], mit Beiträgen v. Ulrich Gregor, Rudolf Hohlweg, Peter W. Jansen, Hans Helmut Prinzler, Wolfram Schütte, Fraft Wetzel, Karsten Witte, München & Wien, Carl Hanser Verlag, 1976, 256 S.
Hoffmann, Hilmar, The Triumph of Propaganda: Film and National Socialism, 1933 - 1945, trans. John A. Broadwin & V.R. Berghahn, Providence & Oxford, Berghahn Books, 1996, 258 pp.
Hull, David Stewart, Film in the Third Reich: a Study of the German Cinema 1933-1945, (1969) University of California Press: Berkeley. 291 pp.
Kaes, Anton, "Modernity and its Discontents: Notes on Alterity in Weimar Cinema," Qui Parle, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1992, pp. 135 - 142.
Kaes, Anton, Martin Jay & Edward Dimendberg, The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1994, 806 pp. [Chapter 25: "Cinema from Expression to Social Realism," pp. 617 - 635].
Kracauer, Siegried, Von Caligari zu Hitler: Eine psychologische Geschichte des deutschen Films, mit 64 Abbildungen, übersetzt v. Ruth Baumgarten & Karsten Witte, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984, 632 S.
Kracauer, Siegried, From Caligari to Hitler: a Psychological History of the German Film, (1947) Princeton University Press: Princeton. 361 pp.
Kracauer, Siegried, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, trans., ed. & intro., Thomas Y. Levin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1995, 403 pp. [Contains the essays: "Calico- World: The UFA City in Neubabelsberg" [pp. 281 - 288]; "The Little Shopgirls Go To The Movies," [pp. 291 - 304]; "Film 1928," [pp. 307 - 320]; "Cult of Distraction: Berlin's Picture Palaces," [pp. 323 - 328].
Kreimeier, Klaus, Die UFA Story: Geschichte eines Filmkonzerns, München, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1992, 520 S.
Leiser, Erwin, Nazi Cinema, trans. Gertrud Mander & David Wilson, New York, Macmillan Publishing Co. (Collier Books), 1975, 179 pp.
Mayne, Judith, "Fassbinder and Spectatorship," New German Critique, No. 12, Fall 1977, pp. 61 - 74.
New German Critique, Nos. 24 - 25, Fall/Winter 1981 - 82: Special Double Issue on New German Cinema [Eric Rentschler, "American Friends and the New German Cinema," pp. 7 - 35; Miriam Hansen, "Cooperative Auteur Cinema and Oppositional Public Sphere,"; Sheila Johnston, "Fassbinder and the New German Cinema," pp. 57 - 72; Kaja Silverman, "Kasper Hauser's 'Terrible Fall' into Narrative," pp. 73 - 93; Timothy Corrigan, "Wender's Kings of the Road: The Voyage from Desire to Language," pp.94 - 107; Thomas Elsaesser, "Myth as the Phantasmagoria of History: H.J. Syberberg, Cinema and Representation," pp. 108 - 154; Judith Mayne, "Female Narration, Women's Cinema: Helke Sander's The All-round Reduced Personality/Redupers," 155 - 171; Helen Fehevary, Claudia Lensson, Judith Mayne, "From Hitler to Hepburn: A Discussion of Women's Film Production and Reception," pp. 172 - 185; Miriam Hansen, "Introduction to Adorno's 'Transparencies on Film' (1966)," pp. 186 - 198; Theodor W. Adorno, "Transparencies on Film," trans. Thomas Y. Levin, pp. 199 - 205; Alexander Kluge, "On Film and Public Sphere,"trans. Thomas Y. Levin & Miriam Hansen, pp. 206 - 220; Andreas Huyssen, "The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis," 221 - 237; Karsten Witte, "Visual Pleasure Inhibited: Aspects of the German Revue Film," trans. James Steakley & Gabriele Hoover, pp. 238 - 263.
Petley, Julian, Capital and Culture: German Cinema 1933 - 45, London, British Film Institute, 1979, 162 pp.
Sandford, John, The New German Cinema, New York, Da Capo Press, 1980, 180 pp.
Schlüpmann, Heide, Unheimlichkeit des Blicks: Das Drama des frühen deutschen Kinos, Frankfurt a.M., Stroemfeld/Roter Stern, 1990, 366 S.
Tatar, Maria, "The Killer as Victim: Fritz Lang's M , " in Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 153 - 172.
Willett, John, "The Camera Eye: New Photography, Russian and Avant-garde Film" [Chapter 15 of:], Art & Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety 1917 - 1933, New York, Pantheon Books, 1978, pp. 139 - 149.
Wulf, Joseph, Theater und Film im Dritten Reich, Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag, 1966, 487 S.

Film Reference:

Katz, Ephraim, The Film Encyclopedia, (1979) Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers: New York. 1266 pp.

Film Reviews:

Hansen, Miriam, "Ambivalence of the 'Mass Ornament': King Vidor's The Crowd, "Qui Parle, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1992, pp. 102 - 119.
Kauffmann, Stanley (editor), American Film Criticism: From the Beginnings to Citizen Kane, Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared, (1972 anthology) Liveright: New York. 443 pp.
Sontag, Susan, "Syberberg's Hitler," in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980, pp. 135 - 165.

Biographies/Autobiographical Writings:

Herzog, Werner, Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris 11/23 to 12/14, 1974, trans. Martje Herzog & Alan Greenberg, New York, Tanam Press, 1980, 57 pp.
Spoto, Donald, Lenya: A Life, New York, Ballantine Books, 1989, 338 pp.
Zsuffa, Joseph, Béla Balázs: the Man and the Artist, (1987) University of California Press: Berkeley. 550 pp.

Screenplays:

Cohen, Henry, ed. & intro. The Public Enemy, Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, 187 pp.
Lang, Fritz, M, A Film by Fritz Lang [Classic Film Scripts], trans. Nicholas Garnham, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1968, 108 pp.
Pabst, G.W., Pandora's Box (Lulu), trans. Christopher Holme, London, Lorrimer Publishing Limited, 1984, 136 pp.
Pabst, G.W., The Threepenny Opera, Adapted from the Musical by B.Brecht and K. Weill, London, Lorrimer Publishing Limited, 1984, 113 pp.
Sternberg, Joseph v., The Blue Angel, an authorized trans. of the German continuity, London, Lorrimer Publishing Limited, 1986, 111 pp.
Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen, Hitler: A Film from Germany, trans. Joachim Neugroschel, preface by Susan Sontag, New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982, 268 pp.
Wegner, Hart, ed., Der blaue Engel, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1982, 214 pp.
Wenders, Wim & Peter Handke, Der Himmel über Berlin, Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1987, 170 S.

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