100 величайших книг о кино всех времен.
Список обязательных к прочтению книг о кино, составленный голливудскими специалистами-тяжеловесами, включая Стивена Спилберга, Дэвида Заслава, Лайзу Миннелли и Аву Дюверней... Всего было опрошено 322 профессионала своего дела, среди которых режиссеры, актеры, продюсеры, писатели,...
Информация о каждой из 100 книг содержится в двух строках: в первой - количество голосов, поданных за книгу; автор; название; год выхода; во второй - еще одна книга, которую стоит прочитать, если вас интересует данная тема. Итого - 200 книг:
P.S. Здесь еще один похожий список.
143. Франсуа Трюффо. "Кинематограф по Хичкоку" (1967)
(-). Serge Toubiana. "The American Friend" (-)
140. Питер Бискинд. "Беспечные ездоки, бешеные быки" (1998)
(-). Lynda Myles & Michael Pye. "The Movie Brats: How the Film Generation Took over Hollywood" (-)
139. William Goldman. "Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting" (1983)
(-). William Goldman. "Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade" (-)
123. Robert Evans. "The Kid Stays in the Picture" (1994)
(-). Jerry Weintraub & Rich Cohen. "When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories From a Persuasive Man" (-)
86. Pauline Kael. "I Lost It at the Movies" (1965)
(-). Pauline Kael. "Reeling: Film Writings, 1972-1975" (-)
81. Neal Gabler. "An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood" (1988)
(-). J. Hoberman & Jeffrey Shandler. "Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting" (-)
80. Julia Phillips. "You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again" (1991)
(-). John Gregory Dunne. "Monster: Living Off the Big Screen" (-)
79. Elia Kazan. "Elia Kazan: A Life" (1988)
(-). Dalton Trumbo, edited by Helen Manfull. "Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962" (-)
79. Сидни Люмет. "Как делается кино" (1995)
(-). Оливер Стоун. "В погоне за светом. О жизни и работе над фильмами «Взвод», «Полуночный экспресс», «Лицо со шрамом», «Сальвадор»" (-)
68. Натанаэл Уэст. "День саранчи" (1939)
(-). Tom Dardis. "Some Time in the Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley and James Agee" (-)
55. Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд. "Последний магнат" (1941)
(-). Budd Schulberg. "The Disenchanted" (-)
55. Кэмерон Кроу. "Знакомьтесь - Билли Уайлдер" (1999)
(-). Lawrence Grobel. "Conversations With Brando: 10 Days on Brando’s Island" (-)
51. Уолтер Мерч. "Искусство монтажа: путь фильма от первого кадра до кинотеатра" (1995)
(-). Robert Karen & Ralph Rosenblum. "When the Shooting Stops… the Cutting Begins" (-)
44. Майкл Толкин. "Игрок" (1988)
(-). Michael Tolkin. "The Return of the Player" (-)
42. Керри Брэдшоу. "Открытки с края пропасти Керри Брэдшоу" (1987)
(-). Matthew Specktor. "American Dream Machine" (-)
40. Андре Базен. "Что такое кино?" (1967)
(-). Peter Wollen. "Signs and Meaning in the Cinema" (-)
35. Робер Брессон. "Заметки о кинематографе" (1975)
(-). Дзига Вертов. "Статьи, дневники, замыслы" (-)
34. Луиза Брукс. "Лулу в Голливуде" (1982)
(-). Salka Viertel. "The Kindness of Strangers" (-)
31. Элмор Леонард. "Контракт с коротышкой" (1990)
(-). Джеймс Эллрой. "Черная Орхидея" (-)
30. Андрей Тарковский. "Запечатленное время" (1987)
(-). Лев Кулешов. "Азбука кинорежиссуры" (-)
29. Орсон Уэллс, Питер Богданович. "Знакомьтесь - Орсон Уэллс" (1992)
(-). Peter Bogdanovich. "John Ford" (-)
28. Элинор Коппола. "Апокалипсис сегодня. Заметки о создании фильма" (1979)
(-). Jack Brodsky & Nathan Weiss. "The Cleopatra Papers: A Private Correspondence" (-)
28. Зигфрид Кракауэр. "От Калигари до Гитлера. Психологическая история немецкого кино" (1947)
(-). Laura B. Rosenzweig. "Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles" (-)
28. Квентин Тарантино. "Киноспекуляции" (2022)
(-). Франсуа Трюффо. "Трюффо о Трюффо" (-)
27. Жан-Люк Годар. "Годар о Годаре" (1972)
(-). Richard Brody. "Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard" (-)
26. Луис Бунюэль. "Мой последний вздох" (1983)
(-). Вернер Херцог. "Каждый за себя, а Бог против всех. Мемуары" (-)
25. Акира Куросава. "Жабий жир. Что-то вроде автобиографии" (1983)
(-). Joseph L. Anderson & Donald Richie. "The Japanese Film: Art and Industry" (-)
25. Чарльз Чаплин. "Моя биография" (1964)
(-). Лилиан Гиш. "Кино, Гриффит и я" (-)
24. Роберт Макки. "История на миллион долларов. Мастер-класс для сценаристов, писателей и не только" (1997)
(-). Блейк Снайдер. "Спасите котика! И другие секреты сценарного мастерства" (-)
23. Сергей Эйзенштейн. "Эссе" (1959)
(-). Сергей Эйзенштейн. "Мемуары" (-)
21. Роберт Родригес. "Кино без бюджета. Как в 23 года покорить Голливуд, имея в кармане 7 тысяч долларов" (1995)
(-). John Sayles. "Thinking In Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan" (-)
19. Жаклин Сьюзан. "Долина кукол" (1966)
(-). Stephen Rebello. "Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time" (-)
43. Joan Didion. "Play It as It Lays" (1970)
(-). Брет Истон Эллис. "Меньше чем ноль" (-)
28. James Baldwin. "The Devil Finds Work" (1976)
(-). Тони Моррисон. "Самые голубые глаза" (-)
28. Donald Spoto. "The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock" (1983)
(-). Стивен Ребелло. "Хичкок. Ужас, порожденный "Психо" (-)
17. Ronan Farrow. "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators" (2019)
(-). Джоди Кантор, Меган Тухи. "#MeToo. Расследование, уничтожившее Харви Вайнштейна" (-)
77. Mark Harris. "Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood" (2008)
(-). Sidney Poitier. "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography" (-)
75. Budd Schulberg. "What Makes Sammy Run?" (1941)
(-). Budd Schulberg. "Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince" (-)
74. Kevin Brownlow. "The Parade’s Gone By…" (1968)
(-). Peter Kobel. "Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture" (-)
67. Molly Haskell. "From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies" (1974)
(-). Marsha McCreadie. "The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats: Women in Films of the 1970s and 1980s" (-)
61. Mark Harris. "Mike Nichols: A Life" (2021)
(-). Beverly Gray. "Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation" (-)
60. Andrew Sarris. "The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968" (1968)
(-). Richard Corliss. "Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema" (-)
59. Thomas Schatz. "The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era" (1988)
(-). Ethan Mordden. "The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies" (-)
58. Kenneth Anger. "Hollywood Babylon" (1959)
(-). Scotty Bowers with Lionel Friedberg. "Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars" (-)
57. Leonard Maltin. "Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide [annually updated]" (1969)
(-). Ephraim Katz. "The Film Encyclopedia" (-)
56. A. Scott Berg. "Goldwyn: A Biography" (1989)
(-). Scott Eyman. "Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer" (-)
56. Steven Bach. "Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate" (1985)
(-). Paul Sylbert. "Final Cut: The Making and Breaking of a Film" (-)
55. Vito Russo. "The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies" (1981)
(-). Thomas Doherty. "Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934" (-)
54. Julie Salamon. "The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco" (1991)
(-). Greg Sestero. "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside ‘The Room,’ the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made" (-)
49. Rudy Behlmer. "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" (1972)
(-). Rudy Behlmer. "Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck: The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox" (-)
47. Otto Friedrich. "City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s" (1988)
(-). David Bordwell. "Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling" (-)
46. David McClintick. "Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street" (1982)
(-). Stephen Farber & Mark Green. "Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and the Twilight Zone Case" (-)
44. Lillian Ross. "Picture: A Story About Hollywood" (1952)
(-). Carl Gottlieb. "The Jaws Log" (-)
43. James Agee. "Agee on Film [Volumes 1 and 2]" (1958)
(-). Graham Greene, edited by John Russell Taylor. "The Pleasure Dome: Graham Greene - The Collected Film Criticism 1935-1940" (-)
39. Peter Bogdanovich. "Who the Devil Made It" (1997)
(-). Peter Bogdanovich. "Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors" (-)
38. Peter Biskind. "Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film" (2004)
(-). Emanuel Levy. "Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film" (-)
37. Donald Bogle. "Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretative History of Blacks in American Films" (1973)
(-). Arthur Dong. "Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films" (-)
37. Frank Capra. "The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography" (1971)
(-). Joseph McBride. "Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success" (-)
37. Sam Wasson. "The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood" (2020)
(-). Ronald Brownstein. "Rock Me on the Water: 1974 - The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics" (-)
37. Nancy Griffin & Kim Masters. "Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood" (1996)
(-). Charles Fleming. "High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess" (-)
36. David Thomson. "A Biographical Dictionary of Cinema [aka The New Biographical Dictionary of Film]" (1975)
(-). David Thomson. "The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood" (-)
33. Roger Ebert. "Life Itself" (2011)
(-). Sidney Poitier. "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography" (-)
32. Victor S. Navasky. "Naming Names" (1980)
(-). Paul Buhle & Patrick McGilligan. "Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist" (-)
30. Mark Harris. "Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War" (2014)
(-). Denise Mann. "Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover" (-)
28. Pauline Kael. "The Citizen Kane Book" (1971)
(-). Robert L. Carringer. "The Making of Citizen Kane" (-)
27. John Gregory Dunne. "The Studio" (1969)
(-). Donald Knox. "The Magic Factory: How MGM Made An American in Paris" (-)
26. Dennis McDougal. "The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood" (1998)
(-). Frank Rose. "The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business" (-)
25. Cari Beauchamp. "Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood" (1997)
(-). Frances Marion. "Off with Their Heads!: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood" (-)
24. Roger Ebert. "The Great Movies, The Great Movies II, The Great Movies III and The Great Movies IV" (2003)
(-). Bosley Crowther. "The Great Films: Fifty Golden Years of Motion Pictures" (-)
23. John Pierson. "Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of Independent American Cinema" (1996)
(-). Roger Corman with Jim Jerome. "How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime" (-)
23. John Waters. "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste" (1981)
(-). John Waters. "Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder" (-)
22. Mark A. Vieira. "George Hurrell’s Hollywood: Glamour Portraits, 1925-1992" (2013)
(-). Annie Leibovitz. "Photographs" (-)
22. Robert Osborne. "85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards" (2013)
(-). Bruce Davis. "The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" (-)
22. Pauline Kael. "5001 Nights at the Movies" (1982)
(-). Brian Kellow. "Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark" (-)
21. Ian Christie & David Thompson. "Scorsese on Scorsese" (1989)
(-). Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson. "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies" (-)
21. Christina Crawford. "Mommie Dearest" (1978)
(-). Bob Thomas. "Joan Crawford: A Biography" (-)
21. Michael Powell. "A Life in Movies" (1987)
(-). Michael Powell. "Million-Dollar Movie: Volume II of a Life in Movies" (-)
19. Spike Lee. "Spike Lee’s Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking" (1987)
(-). Spike Lee with Lisa Jones. "Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint" (-)
19. James Andrew Miller. "Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency" (2016)
(-). Michael Ovitz. "Who Is Michael Ovitz? The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood" (-)
19. Edited by Peter Biskind. "My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles" (2013)
(-). Francis Davis. "Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael" (-)
19. Patricia Bosworth. "Montgomery Clift: A Biography" (1978)
(-). Christopher Finch. "Rainbow: Stormy Life of Judy Garland" (-)
19. Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson. "Hollywood: The Oral History" (2022)
(-). John Kobal. "People Will Talk" (-)
19. Joseph McBride. "Hawks on Hawks" (1982)
(-). Todd McCarthy. "Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood" (-)
18. Jeanine Basinger. "The Star Machine" (2007)
(-). E.J. Fleming. "The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine" (-)
18. Aljean Harmetz. "The Making of The Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM - and the Miracle of Production #1060" (1977)
(-). Aljean Harmetz. "The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman and World War II" (-)
18. Michael Ondaatje. "The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film" (2002)
(-). Paul Hirsch. "A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits ― Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Mission: Impossible and More" (-)
18. George Stevens Jr.. "Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute and Conversations at the American Film Institute With the Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation" (2006)
(-). Richard Schickel. "The Men Who Made the Movies" (-)
18. Lauren Bacall. "By Myself" (1978)
(-). Bette Davis. "The Lonely Life" (-)
17. Carrie Fisher. "Wishful Drinking" (2008)
(-). Carrie Fisher. "Shockaholic" (-)
17. Neal Gabler. "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" (2006)
(-). Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas. "Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life" (-)
17. David Niven. "The Moon’s a Balloon" (1971)
(-). David Niven. "Bring on the Empty Horses" (-)
17. William Friedkin. "The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir" (2013)
(-). Stephen Galloway. "Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker" (-)
17. Manny Farber. "Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies" (1971)
(-). Manny Farber, edited by Robert Polito. "Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber" (-)
17. Ron Haver. "David O. Selznick’s Hollywood" (1980)
(-). Gavin Lambert. "GWTW: The Making of Gone with the Wind" (-)
17. Eddie Muller. "Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir" (1998)
(-). Charles Flynn & Todd McCarthy. "King of the Bs: Working Within the Hollywood System" (-)
17. Ray Carney. "Cassavetes on Cassavetes" (2001)
(-). Mitchell Zuckoff. "Robert Altman: The Oral Biography Book" (-)
17. Christine Vachon & Austin Bunn. "A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond" (2006)
(-). Christine Vachon. "Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter" (-)
16. Paul Schrader. "Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer" (1972)
(-). Stanley Cavell. "The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film" (-)
16. Brooke Hayward. "Haywire: A Memoir" (1977)
(-). Irene Mayer Selznick. "A Private View" (-)
16. Amos Vogel. "Film as a Subversive Art" (1974)
(-). Jonas Mekas. "I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 1950-1969: Volume 1 and I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 1969-2011: Volume 2" (-)
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Информация о каждой из 100 книг содержится в двух строках: в первой - количество голосов, поданных за книгу; автор; название; год выхода; во второй - еще одна книга, которую стоит прочитать, если вас интересует данная тема. Итого - 200 книг:
P.S. Здесь еще один похожий список.
143. Франсуа Трюффо. "Кинематограф по Хичкоку" (1967)
(-). Serge Toubiana. "The American Friend" (-)
140. Питер Бискинд. "Беспечные ездоки, бешеные быки" (1998)
(-). Lynda Myles & Michael Pye. "The Movie Brats: How the Film Generation Took over Hollywood" (-)
139. William Goldman. "Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting" (1983)
(-). William Goldman. "Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade" (-)
123. Robert Evans. "The Kid Stays in the Picture" (1994)
(-). Jerry Weintraub & Rich Cohen. "When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories From a Persuasive Man" (-)
86. Pauline Kael. "I Lost It at the Movies" (1965)
(-). Pauline Kael. "Reeling: Film Writings, 1972-1975" (-)
81. Neal Gabler. "An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood" (1988)
(-). J. Hoberman & Jeffrey Shandler. "Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting" (-)
80. Julia Phillips. "You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again" (1991)
(-). John Gregory Dunne. "Monster: Living Off the Big Screen" (-)
79. Elia Kazan. "Elia Kazan: A Life" (1988)
(-). Dalton Trumbo, edited by Helen Manfull. "Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962" (-)
79. Сидни Люмет. "Как делается кино" (1995)
(-). Оливер Стоун. "В погоне за светом. О жизни и работе над фильмами «Взвод», «Полуночный экспресс», «Лицо со шрамом», «Сальвадор»" (-)
68. Натанаэл Уэст. "День саранчи" (1939)
(-). Tom Dardis. "Some Time in the Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley and James Agee" (-)
55. Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд. "Последний магнат" (1941)
(-). Budd Schulberg. "The Disenchanted" (-)
55. Кэмерон Кроу. "Знакомьтесь - Билли Уайлдер" (1999)
(-). Lawrence Grobel. "Conversations With Brando: 10 Days on Brando’s Island" (-)
51. Уолтер Мерч. "Искусство монтажа: путь фильма от первого кадра до кинотеатра" (1995)
(-). Robert Karen & Ralph Rosenblum. "When the Shooting Stops… the Cutting Begins" (-)
44. Майкл Толкин. "Игрок" (1988)
(-). Michael Tolkin. "The Return of the Player" (-)
42. Керри Брэдшоу. "Открытки с края пропасти Керри Брэдшоу" (1987)
(-). Matthew Specktor. "American Dream Machine" (-)
40. Андре Базен. "Что такое кино?" (1967)
(-). Peter Wollen. "Signs and Meaning in the Cinema" (-)
35. Робер Брессон. "Заметки о кинематографе" (1975)
(-). Дзига Вертов. "Статьи, дневники, замыслы" (-)
34. Луиза Брукс. "Лулу в Голливуде" (1982)
(-). Salka Viertel. "The Kindness of Strangers" (-)
31. Элмор Леонард. "Контракт с коротышкой" (1990)
(-). Джеймс Эллрой. "Черная Орхидея" (-)
30. Андрей Тарковский. "Запечатленное время" (1987)
(-). Лев Кулешов. "Азбука кинорежиссуры" (-)
29. Орсон Уэллс, Питер Богданович. "Знакомьтесь - Орсон Уэллс" (1992)
(-). Peter Bogdanovich. "John Ford" (-)
28. Элинор Коппола. "Апокалипсис сегодня. Заметки о создании фильма" (1979)
(-). Jack Brodsky & Nathan Weiss. "The Cleopatra Papers: A Private Correspondence" (-)
28. Зигфрид Кракауэр. "От Калигари до Гитлера. Психологическая история немецкого кино" (1947)
(-). Laura B. Rosenzweig. "Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles" (-)
28. Квентин Тарантино. "Киноспекуляции" (2022)
(-). Франсуа Трюффо. "Трюффо о Трюффо" (-)
27. Жан-Люк Годар. "Годар о Годаре" (1972)
(-). Richard Brody. "Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard" (-)
26. Луис Бунюэль. "Мой последний вздох" (1983)
(-). Вернер Херцог. "Каждый за себя, а Бог против всех. Мемуары" (-)
25. Акира Куросава. "Жабий жир. Что-то вроде автобиографии" (1983)
(-). Joseph L. Anderson & Donald Richie. "The Japanese Film: Art and Industry" (-)
25. Чарльз Чаплин. "Моя биография" (1964)
(-). Лилиан Гиш. "Кино, Гриффит и я" (-)
24. Роберт Макки. "История на миллион долларов. Мастер-класс для сценаристов, писателей и не только" (1997)
(-). Блейк Снайдер. "Спасите котика! И другие секреты сценарного мастерства" (-)
23. Сергей Эйзенштейн. "Эссе" (1959)
(-). Сергей Эйзенштейн. "Мемуары" (-)
21. Роберт Родригес. "Кино без бюджета. Как в 23 года покорить Голливуд, имея в кармане 7 тысяч долларов" (1995)
(-). John Sayles. "Thinking In Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewan" (-)
19. Жаклин Сьюзан. "Долина кукол" (1966)
(-). Stephen Rebello. "Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time" (-)
43. Joan Didion. "Play It as It Lays" (1970)
(-). Брет Истон Эллис. "Меньше чем ноль" (-)
28. James Baldwin. "The Devil Finds Work" (1976)
(-). Тони Моррисон. "Самые голубые глаза" (-)
28. Donald Spoto. "The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock" (1983)
(-). Стивен Ребелло. "Хичкок. Ужас, порожденный "Психо" (-)
17. Ronan Farrow. "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators" (2019)
(-). Джоди Кантор, Меган Тухи. "#MeToo. Расследование, уничтожившее Харви Вайнштейна" (-)
77. Mark Harris. "Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood" (2008)
(-). Sidney Poitier. "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography" (-)
75. Budd Schulberg. "What Makes Sammy Run?" (1941)
(-). Budd Schulberg. "Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince" (-)
74. Kevin Brownlow. "The Parade’s Gone By…" (1968)
(-). Peter Kobel. "Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture" (-)
67. Molly Haskell. "From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies" (1974)
(-). Marsha McCreadie. "The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats: Women in Films of the 1970s and 1980s" (-)
61. Mark Harris. "Mike Nichols: A Life" (2021)
(-). Beverly Gray. "Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation" (-)
60. Andrew Sarris. "The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968" (1968)
(-). Richard Corliss. "Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema" (-)
59. Thomas Schatz. "The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era" (1988)
(-). Ethan Mordden. "The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies" (-)
58. Kenneth Anger. "Hollywood Babylon" (1959)
(-). Scotty Bowers with Lionel Friedberg. "Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars" (-)
57. Leonard Maltin. "Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide [annually updated]" (1969)
(-). Ephraim Katz. "The Film Encyclopedia" (-)
56. A. Scott Berg. "Goldwyn: A Biography" (1989)
(-). Scott Eyman. "Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer" (-)
56. Steven Bach. "Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven’s Gate" (1985)
(-). Paul Sylbert. "Final Cut: The Making and Breaking of a Film" (-)
55. Vito Russo. "The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies" (1981)
(-). Thomas Doherty. "Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934" (-)
54. Julie Salamon. "The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco" (1991)
(-). Greg Sestero. "The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside ‘The Room,’ the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made" (-)
49. Rudy Behlmer. "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" (1972)
(-). Rudy Behlmer. "Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck: The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox" (-)
47. Otto Friedrich. "City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s" (1988)
(-). David Bordwell. "Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling" (-)
46. David McClintick. "Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street" (1982)
(-). Stephen Farber & Mark Green. "Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and the Twilight Zone Case" (-)
44. Lillian Ross. "Picture: A Story About Hollywood" (1952)
(-). Carl Gottlieb. "The Jaws Log" (-)
43. James Agee. "Agee on Film [Volumes 1 and 2]" (1958)
(-). Graham Greene, edited by John Russell Taylor. "The Pleasure Dome: Graham Greene - The Collected Film Criticism 1935-1940" (-)
39. Peter Bogdanovich. "Who the Devil Made It" (1997)
(-). Peter Bogdanovich. "Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors" (-)
38. Peter Biskind. "Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film" (2004)
(-). Emanuel Levy. "Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film" (-)
37. Donald Bogle. "Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretative History of Blacks in American Films" (1973)
(-). Arthur Dong. "Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films" (-)
37. Frank Capra. "The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography" (1971)
(-). Joseph McBride. "Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success" (-)
37. Sam Wasson. "The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood" (2020)
(-). Ronald Brownstein. "Rock Me on the Water: 1974 - The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics" (-)
37. Nancy Griffin & Kim Masters. "Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood" (1996)
(-). Charles Fleming. "High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess" (-)
36. David Thomson. "A Biographical Dictionary of Cinema [aka The New Biographical Dictionary of Film]" (1975)
(-). David Thomson. "The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood" (-)
33. Roger Ebert. "Life Itself" (2011)
(-). Sidney Poitier. "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography" (-)
32. Victor S. Navasky. "Naming Names" (1980)
(-). Paul Buhle & Patrick McGilligan. "Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist" (-)
30. Mark Harris. "Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War" (2014)
(-). Denise Mann. "Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover" (-)
28. Pauline Kael. "The Citizen Kane Book" (1971)
(-). Robert L. Carringer. "The Making of Citizen Kane" (-)
27. John Gregory Dunne. "The Studio" (1969)
(-). Donald Knox. "The Magic Factory: How MGM Made An American in Paris" (-)
26. Dennis McDougal. "The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood" (1998)
(-). Frank Rose. "The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business" (-)
25. Cari Beauchamp. "Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood" (1997)
(-). Frances Marion. "Off with Their Heads!: A Serio-Comic Tale of Hollywood" (-)
24. Roger Ebert. "The Great Movies, The Great Movies II, The Great Movies III and The Great Movies IV" (2003)
(-). Bosley Crowther. "The Great Films: Fifty Golden Years of Motion Pictures" (-)
23. John Pierson. "Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of Independent American Cinema" (1996)
(-). Roger Corman with Jim Jerome. "How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime" (-)
23. John Waters. "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste" (1981)
(-). John Waters. "Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder" (-)
22. Mark A. Vieira. "George Hurrell’s Hollywood: Glamour Portraits, 1925-1992" (2013)
(-). Annie Leibovitz. "Photographs" (-)
22. Robert Osborne. "85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards" (2013)
(-). Bruce Davis. "The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" (-)
22. Pauline Kael. "5001 Nights at the Movies" (1982)
(-). Brian Kellow. "Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark" (-)
21. Ian Christie & David Thompson. "Scorsese on Scorsese" (1989)
(-). Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson. "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies" (-)
21. Christina Crawford. "Mommie Dearest" (1978)
(-). Bob Thomas. "Joan Crawford: A Biography" (-)
21. Michael Powell. "A Life in Movies" (1987)
(-). Michael Powell. "Million-Dollar Movie: Volume II of a Life in Movies" (-)
19. Spike Lee. "Spike Lee’s Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking" (1987)
(-). Spike Lee with Lisa Jones. "Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint" (-)
19. James Andrew Miller. "Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency" (2016)
(-). Michael Ovitz. "Who Is Michael Ovitz? The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood" (-)
19. Edited by Peter Biskind. "My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles" (2013)
(-). Francis Davis. "Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael" (-)
19. Patricia Bosworth. "Montgomery Clift: A Biography" (1978)
(-). Christopher Finch. "Rainbow: Stormy Life of Judy Garland" (-)
19. Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson. "Hollywood: The Oral History" (2022)
(-). John Kobal. "People Will Talk" (-)
19. Joseph McBride. "Hawks on Hawks" (1982)
(-). Todd McCarthy. "Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood" (-)
18. Jeanine Basinger. "The Star Machine" (2007)
(-). E.J. Fleming. "The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine" (-)
18. Aljean Harmetz. "The Making of The Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM - and the Miracle of Production #1060" (1977)
(-). Aljean Harmetz. "The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman and World War II" (-)
18. Michael Ondaatje. "The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film" (2002)
(-). Paul Hirsch. "A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits ― Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Mission: Impossible and More" (-)
18. George Stevens Jr.. "Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute and Conversations at the American Film Institute With the Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation" (2006)
(-). Richard Schickel. "The Men Who Made the Movies" (-)
18. Lauren Bacall. "By Myself" (1978)
(-). Bette Davis. "The Lonely Life" (-)
17. Carrie Fisher. "Wishful Drinking" (2008)
(-). Carrie Fisher. "Shockaholic" (-)
17. Neal Gabler. "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" (2006)
(-). Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas. "Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life" (-)
17. David Niven. "The Moon’s a Balloon" (1971)
(-). David Niven. "Bring on the Empty Horses" (-)
17. William Friedkin. "The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir" (2013)
(-). Stephen Galloway. "Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker" (-)
17. Manny Farber. "Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies" (1971)
(-). Manny Farber, edited by Robert Polito. "Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber" (-)
17. Ron Haver. "David O. Selznick’s Hollywood" (1980)
(-). Gavin Lambert. "GWTW: The Making of Gone with the Wind" (-)
17. Eddie Muller. "Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir" (1998)
(-). Charles Flynn & Todd McCarthy. "King of the Bs: Working Within the Hollywood System" (-)
17. Ray Carney. "Cassavetes on Cassavetes" (2001)
(-). Mitchell Zuckoff. "Robert Altman: The Oral Biography Book" (-)
17. Christine Vachon & Austin Bunn. "A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond" (2006)
(-). Christine Vachon. "Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter" (-)
16. Paul Schrader. "Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer" (1972)
(-). Stanley Cavell. "The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film" (-)
16. Brooke Hayward. "Haywire: A Memoir" (1977)
(-). Irene Mayer Selznick. "A Private View" (-)
16. Amos Vogel. "Film as a Subversive Art" (1974)
(-). Jonas Mekas. "I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 1950-1969: Volume 1 and I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 1969-2011: Volume 2" (-)
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