An Introduction to Film

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Documentary Films
Aitken, Ian. Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York:
Routledge, 2006.
Aufderheide, Patricia. Documentary Film: A Very Short
Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Austin, Thomas, and Wilma de Jong, eds. Rethinking Documentary:
New Perspectives, New Practices.London: Open University
Press, 2008.
Barsam, Richard. Nonfiction Film: A Critical History. Rev. and exp.
ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Chanan, Michael. The Politics of Documentary. London: BFI,
2007.
Hogarth, David. Realer Than Reel: Global Directions in Documentary.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
Juhasz, Alexandra, and Jesse Lerner, eds. F Is for Phony: Fake
Documentary and Truth’s Undoing. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2006.
Nichols, Bill. Introduction to Documentary.Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2001.
———. Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Plantinga, Carl R. Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Renov, Michael, ed. Theorizing Documentary. New York:
Routledge, 1993.
Rothman, William. Documentary Film Classics. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Russell, Patrick. 100 British Documentaries. London: BFI, 2007.
Tobias, Michael, ed. The Search for Reality: The Art of Documentary
Filmmaking. Studio City, Calif.: Wiese, 1998.


Experimental Films
Arthur, Paul. A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film since
1965.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Berra, John. Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and
the Partiality of Independent Production.Chicago: Intellect,
2008.
Camper, Fred. “Naming, and Defining, Avant-Garde or
Experimental Film.” http://www.fredcamper.com/Film/Avant
GardeDefinition.html. Accessed April 29, 2009.
Dixon, Wheeler Winston. The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary
History of 1960’s American Experimental Cinema. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1997.
Dixon, Wheeler Winston, and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, eds.
Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader. New York: Routledge,
2002.
Hagener, Malte. Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European
Avant-Garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919–1939.
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
Harper, Graeme, and Rob Stone. The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism
on Film. London: Wallflower, 2007.
Horak, Jan-Christopher. Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film
Avant-Garde, 1919–1945.Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1995.
Le Grice, Malcolm. Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age.
London: BFI, 2001.
MacDonald, Scott. Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1993.
———. A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers.
5 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988–2006.


Peterson, James. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding
the American Avant-Garde Cinema. Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 1994.
Reekie, Duncan. Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground
Cinema. London: Wallflower, 2007.
Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde,
1943–1978.3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Youngblood, Gene. Expanded Cinema. New York: Dutton, 1970.

Film Noir
Abbott, Megan E. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in
Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002.
Bould, Mark. Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City. London:
Wallflower, 2005.
Christopher, Nicholas. Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the
American City. New and exp. ed. Emeryville, Calif.:
Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006.
Conrad, Mark T., ed. The Philosophy of Film Noir.Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Hirsch, Foster. The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir. 2nd ed. New
York: Da Capo, 2001.
———. Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir. New York:
Limelight, 2004.
Johnson, Kevin. The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film
Noir (1940–1949). New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll, 2007.
Kaplan, E. Ann, ed. Women in Film Noir. London: BFI, 1998.
Naremore, James. More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts.
Updated and exp. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2008.
Porfirio, Robert, Alain Silver, and James Ursini, eds. Film Noir
Reader 3: Interviews with Filmmakers of the Classic Noir Period.
New York: Limelight, 2004.
Silver, Alain, and James Ursini, eds. Film Noir Reader. New York:
Limelight, 1996.
———. Film Noir Reader 2.New York: Limelight, 2004.
———. Film Noir Reader 4: The Crucial Films and Themes. New
York: Limelight, 2004.
Silver, Alain, and Elisabeth Ward, eds. Film Noir: An Encyclopedic
Reference to the American Style.3rd ed. Woodstock, N.Y.:
Overlook, 1993.
Telotte, J. B. Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of
“Film Noir.”Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press,
1989.
Wa g e r, J a n s B. Dames in the Driver’s Seat: Rereading Film Noir.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Horror Movies
Carroll, Noël. The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart.
New York: Routledge, 1990.
Clover, Carol J. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern
Horror Film. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Freeland, Cynthia A. The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the
Appeal of Horror. Boulder, Col.: Westview, 2000.
Grant, Barry Keith, ed. The Dread of Difference: Gender and the
Horror Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Hardy, Phil, with Tom Milne, Kim Newman, and Paul Willemen,
eds. Horror. London: Aurum, 1996.
Jancovich, Mark, ed. Horror, the Film Reader. New York:
Routledge, 2002.

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