4.16 avg rating — 279 ratings

"Ken Wilber's "Eye of the Spirit" is an important work that introduces an integral approach to art and literary theory."

3.97 avg rating — 154 ratings

""The Cinema" by Edgar Morin is a groundbreaking seminal work that helps one more deeply understand the complex co-evolutionary relationship between the cinema, consciousness, culture and society."

3.77 avg rating — 116 ratings

""The Star" by Edgar Morin is an important and foundational work that helps one more deeply understand the complex relationship between cinematic stars, consciousness, culture and society."

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

""Integral Drama" deeply explores drama theory and acting in general from an integrally-informed evolutionary perspective."

4.27 avg rating — 17,482 ratings

"McKee's "Story" is a classic work that helps one more deeply understand the textual dimensions of a cinematic work."

4.03 avg rating — 151 ratings

"Dramatica is an integrally-related approach to cinematic storytelling that takes a quadratic paradigm approach to the cinematic story. There is also a software program based on this theory that helps one develop characters and story using this methodology."

4.30 avg rating — 761 ratings

"Bruce Block's "The Visual Story" is an important work that helps one more deeply understand the visual expression dimensions of a cinematic work."

4.09 avg rating — 256 ratings

"David Sonnenshein's book on sound design helps one more deeply understand the auditory dimensions of a cinematic work and its effect on the viewer."

4.21 avg rating — 8,430 ratings

"Acclaimed editor Walter Murch's "In the Blink of an Eye" is an important work that helps one more deeply understand the temporal and editorial dimensions of a cinematic work."

3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings

""Movies and Money" by acclaimed film producer David Puttnam offers a wonderful inside look at the relationship between finance and cinema from the individual and collective interior and exterior dimensions."

3.77 avg rating — 19,968 ratings

""Catching the Big Fish" by acclaimed cinematic artist David Lynch is a wonderful contemplation of the relationship between meditation, consciousness, and creativity and offers a glimpse into a living example of a filmmaker attempting to use altered states in the development and creation of cinematic works."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings

""Seeing the Light" by American avant-garde poet and filmmaker James Broughton is a wondrous, fun and deep treatise on the spiritual and transformational nature of the cinematic arts and a perceptual blueprint for holding the process of creating and viewing cinematic works as a sacred and transformational experience."

3.50 avg rating — 343 ratings

""Psychology at the Movies" is a trans-disciplinary exploration of the individual and collective psychological dimensions of the movies."

3.80 avg rating — 339 ratings

""The Major Film Theories" is a great work to give one a big picture perspective on the different methodologies involved in cinematic analysis and theory building."

3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings

""To Desire Differently" is an essential study of film and feminism that includes an exploration of the life and work of Germaine Dulac, a pioneer in avant-garde and feminist cinema, and the first "integral cinema" cinematic artist."

4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings

"As the only full book in English about Integral Cinema pioneer Germaine Dulac, "A Cinema of Sensations" is an important work in the Integral Cinema canon."

4.50 avg rating — 6,489 ratings

"Russian Integral Cinematic master Andrei Tarkiosky's treatise on the temporal nature of cinema and how to use that nature to create works of cinematic art. Essential for editors, cinematographers and any aspiring moving image media artist"

4.04 avg rating — 470 ratings

"Eisenstein's classic works, "Film Sense" and "Film Form" lay the foundation for cinematic expression and design in the practical formalist tradition with hints of a preliminary integrally-informed mapping of the elements of cinematic expression and design."

4.07 avg rating — 1,150 ratings

"Eisenstein's classic works, "Film Sense" and "Film Form" lay the foundation for cinematic expression and design in the practical formalist tradition with hints of a preliminary integrally-informed mapping of the elements of cinematic expression and design."

3.87 avg rating — 425 ratings

"Arnheim's classic on the foundations of the art of cinematic expression."

4.07 avg rating — 3,987 ratings

"Arnheim's classic on the psychology of art and visual expression which includes many theoretical foundations for understanding cinematic expression."

4.60 avg rating — 173 ratings

"For those who want to go deep into integral theory, Gebser's magnum opus has the first in-depth integral analysis of art."