Ebert, Roger, and Gene Siskel. The Future of the Movies: Interviews
with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas.
Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, 1991.
Enticknap, Leo. Moving Image Technology: From Zoetrope to Digital.
London: Wallflower, 2005.
Fielding, Raymond, ed. A Technological History of Motion Pictures
and Television: An Anthology from the Pages of the Journal of the
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1967.
Hurbis-Cherrier, Mick. Voice and Vision: A Creative Approach to
Narrative Film and DV Production. Boston: Focal Press, 2007.
Kawin, Bruce F. How Movies Work. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1992.
Konigsberg, Ira. The Complete Film Dictionary.2nd ed. New York:
Penguin, 1997.
Long, Ben, and Sonja Schenk. The Digital Filmmaking Handbook.
3rd ed. Hingham, Mass.: Charles River Media, 2005.
Mamer, Bruce. Film Production Technique: Creating the
Accomplished Image.5th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2009.
Neale, Stephen. Cinema and Technology: Image, Sound, Colour.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Rieser, Martin, and Andrea Zapp, eds. New Screen Media:
Cinema/Art/Narrative. London: BFI, 2002.
Salt, Barry. Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis. 2nd ed.
London: Starword, 1992.
Utterson, Andrew, ed. Technology and Culture, the Film Reader.
London: Routledge, 2005.
Vaz, Mark Cotta, and Patricia Rose Duignan. Industrial Light &
Magic: Into the Digital Realm. New York: Ballantine, 1996.
The Studio System
Davis, Ronald L. The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood’s Big
Studio System. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press,
1993.
Finler, Joel W. The Hollywood Story: Everything You Ever Wanted to
Know about the American Movie Business but Didn’t Know
Where to Look.Rev. ed. New York: Columbia University Press,
2003.
Goldsmith, Ben, and Tom O’Regan. The Film Studio: Film
Production in the Global Eco nomy.Lanham, Md.: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2005.
Gomery, Douglas. The Hollywood Studio System: A History.
London: BFI, 2005.
Mordden, Ethan. The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden
Age of the Movies. New York: Knopf, 1988.
Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An
Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers.Boston: Little,
Brown, 1950.
Schatz, Thomas. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking
in the Studio Era.New York: Holt, 1996.
Independent Production
Corman, Roger. How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and
Never Lost a Dime. New York: Random House, 1990.
Frolick, Billy. What I Really Want to Do Is Direct: Seven Film School
Graduates Go to Hollywood.New York: Plume, 1997.
Gaines, Philip, and David J. Rhodes. Micro-Budget Hollywood:
Budgeting (and Making) Feature Films for $50,000 to $500,000.
Los Angeles: Silman-James, 1995.
Goodell, Gregory. Independent Feature Film Pro duction: A Complete
Guide from Concept through Distribution.Rev. ed. New York: St.
Martin’s, 1998.
MacDonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent
Filmmakers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Pierson, John. Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes: A Guided Tour
across a Decade of American Inde pendent Cinema.New York:
Miramax/Hyperion, 1997.
Polish, Mark, Michael Polish, and Jonathan Sheldon. The
Declaration of Independent Filmmaking: An Insider’s Guide
to Making Movies outside of Hollywood.Orlando: Harcourt,
2005.
Rosen, David, and Peter Hamilton. Off-Hollywood: The Making and
Marketing of Independent Films. New York: Grove Weidenfeld,
1990.
Vachon, Christine, with David Edelstein. Shooting to Kill: How an
Independent Producer Blasts through the Barriers to Make
Movies That Matter.New York: Avon, 1998.Labor and Unions
Ross, Murray. Stars and Strikes: Unionization of Hollywood. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1941.Distribution, Exhibition, and Reception
Austin, Bruce A. Immediate Seating: A Look at Movie Audiences.
Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1989.
Compaine, Benjamin M., and Douglas Gomery. Who Owns the
Media?: Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media
Industry. 3rd ed. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 2000.
Gomery, Douglas. Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation
in America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Hark, Ina Rae. Exhibition, the Film Reader. New York: Routledge,
2002.
Hayes, Dade, and Jonathan Bing. Open Wide: How Hollywood
Box Office Became a National Obsession.New York: Miramax/
Hyperion, 2004.
Herman, Edward S., and Robert W. McChesney. The Global Media:
The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism. London: Cassell,
1997.
Klinger, Barbara. Reception: The Film Reader. London: Routledge,
2009.
Lukk, Tiiu. Movie Marketing: Opening the Picture and Giving It Legs.
Los Angeles: Silman-James, 1997.
Staiger, Janet. Media Reception Studies. New York: New York
University Press, 2005.
———. Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception. New York:
New York University Press, 2000.
Stokes, Melvyn, and Richard Maltby, eds. American Movie
Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era.
London: BFI, 1999.The Making of...
Note: In addition to the books listed here, DVD releases often
contain, as supplementary material, a “making of ” section.
Auiler, Dan. “Vertigo”: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic. New York:
St. Martin’s, 1998.
Behlmer, Rudy. America’s Favorite Movies: Behind the Scenes.New
York: Ungar, 1982.570 FURTHER READING