ENG252: Introduction to Film: Books & E-books

Genre and Hollywood by Steve Neale

What Is Film Noir? by William Park

Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory by Barry Keith Grant (Editor); Malisa Kurtz (Editor)

Food in Film: A Culinary Performance of Communication by Jane Ferry

Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film by Michael Boyce Gillespie

Uncanny Bodies : The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre by Robert Spadoni

The Laughing Dead : The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland

A Companion to the Biopic by Deborah Cartmell (Editor); Ashley D. Polasek (Editor)

Film Genre Reader IV by Barry Keith Grant (Editor)

American Film Cycles : Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures by Amanda Ann Klein

A World History of Film by Robert Sklar

A Short History of Film by Wheeler Winston Dixon

A History of Horror by Wheeler Winston Dixon

Black and White Cinema: A Short History

Living Pictures: The Origins of the Movies

Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series by Richard B. Armstrong; Mary Willems Armstrong

100 Cult Films by Ernest Mathijs; Xavier Mendik

The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films by Salvador Jiménez Murguía (Editor)

American Film Institute Desk Reference

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings by Gerald Mast (Editor); Marshall Cohen (Editor); Leo Braudy (Editor)

Psychology at the Movies by Skip Dine Young

Feminist film theory : A Reader

Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell; Kristin Thompson

The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heist Film by Jeannette Sloniowski; Jim Leach (Editor)

Food on Film : Bringing Something New to the Table by Tom Hertweck (Editor)

Concepts in Film Theory

One Shot Hitchcock: A Contemporary Approach to the Screen by Luke Robinson (Editor); Melanie Robson (Editor)

Cinematography