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Cinema Books
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Hitchcock/Truffaut (Paperback)
by (shelved 482 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,354 ratings — published 1966
Sculpting in Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6,568 ratings — published 1984
Notes on the Cinematographer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 3,616 ratings — published 1975
Making Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,075 ratings — published 1995
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,508 ratings — published 1995
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,572 ratings — published 1997
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,601 ratings — published 1979
Cinema Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,756 ratings — published 2022
The Magic Lantern (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,530 ratings — published 1987
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,520 ratings — published 1998
What is Cinema? Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,896 ratings — published 1967
My Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,853 ratings — published 1982
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,322 ratings — published 1983
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 739 ratings — published 1958
Something Like an Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,572 ratings — published 1981
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005 (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,790 ratings — published 1979
Lynch on Lynch (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,368 ratings — published 1997
Film History: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,215 ratings — published 1994
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,108 ratings — published 1972
Film Form: Essays In Film Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,159 ratings — published 1949
The Story of Film (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,066 ratings — published 2004
The Time-Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,321 ratings — published 1985
Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,888 ratings — published 1959
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.77 — 20,372 ratings — published 2006
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,962 ratings — published 2005
Godard on Godard: Critical Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 685 ratings — published 1985
Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,542 ratings — published 2003
Room to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,024 ratings — published 2018
On Directing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,057 ratings — published 1991
How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,256 ratings — published 1977
The Films in My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.09 — 728 ratings — published 1975
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,316 ratings — published 2003
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,401 ratings — published 1992
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.92 — 900 ratings — published 1947
This Is Orson Welles (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,149 ratings — published 1992
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,523 ratings — published 1995
Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,182 ratings — published 2002
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,849 ratings — published 2008
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)
by (shelved 76 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,984 ratings — published 1991
The Great Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,633 ratings — published 2002
What is Cinema?: Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.19 — 565 ratings — published 1971
Film as a Subversive Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.31 — 705 ratings — published 1974
Images: My Life in Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 860 ratings — published 1990
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,237 ratings — published 2007
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,170 ratings — published 2004
Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,599 ratings — published 2004
Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.29 — 872 ratings — published 1993
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,432 ratings — published 1983
My Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,303 ratings — published 1964
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cinema)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,714 ratings — published 2002
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