 | What Is Cinema? (Vol 1) by Andre Bazin
Buy used from: $0.99 Translated from Andre Bazin's work in French. The best place to start, despite the lousy translation.
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 | How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Theory by James Monaco
Buy used from: $1.17 An expansive scope, from placing film into the context of the arts in general, to providing details about the inner workings of cameras and projectors, to a general grounding in film history
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 | Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography
Buy used from: $14.99 Discover the complex art and science of good cinematography
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 | Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe
Buy used from: $25.00 Wilder dispensing wise little jewels that add up to an inspired manual on how to write and direct a film.
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![Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, Complete Set 1-13 [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P21S5J25L._SL75_.jpg) | Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, Complete Set 1-13 [VHS]
Buy used from: $999.99 The early days of Hollywood film, where words weren't even necessary. Absolutely essential to understand the evolution of film.
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 | The Great Movies by Roger Ebert
Buy used from: $2.11 One of the greatest film critics recommends his top 100, with excellent commentary on why so.
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 | The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films
Buy new: $9.70 / Used from: $2.71 Further study and criticism to inspire you to comprehend what makes movie great, and click.
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 | A Talk With Hitchcock
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.00 Funny, but amazing how a chat with a great director can teach you so much!
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 | Hitchcock (Revised Edition) by Helen G. Scott
Buy new: $16.10 / Used from: $6.98 Or reading about him..
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 | Hitchcock's Notebooks: An Authorized And Illustrated Look Inside The Creative Mind Of Alfred Hitchcock by Dan Auiler
Buy used from: $1.99 ..and reading some more
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 | The Directors - The Essential DVD Collection
A fascinating look at several of them together
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 | You're Only as Good as Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for Which I Should Be Shot by Mike Medavoy
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $0.66 Getting back to brilliant film commentary
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 | Cinema Europe - The Other Hollywood
Buy used from: $189.00 And while we are at it, why leave Europe out. Some of the best movies of our times have come from there..
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 | Landmarks of Early Film, Vol. 1
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $21.24 The humble but stunning beginnings
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 | American Cinema - 100 Years of Filmmaking
Buy used from: $249.99 Horribly expensive for just 2 discs, so try renting, but it covers an impressively broad scope
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 | AFI's 100 Years - 100 Movies (CBS Television Special)
Buy used from: $35.75 The quintessential list?
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 | Hidden Hollywood - Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.99 Do not pass this one up. Take an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at rare and exciting musical and dance sequences deleted from classic Fox films..
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 | An Introduction to Film Studies by Jill Nelmes
Buy new: $140.00 / Used from: $74.94 Somewhat dry and text-booky, but comprehensive.
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 | The Visual Story: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV and New Media by Bruce Block
Buy used from: $6.30 Outlines the concept of visual presentation as a science, using everything from the dynamics of perspective to shape, tone, color and rhythm.
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 | In the Blink of an Eye Revised 2nd Edition by Walter Murch
Buy new: $9.77 / Used from: $5.00 Celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing
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 | Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings, 5th Edition
Buy new: $59.95 / Used from: $5.57 Now that we are speaking theory, we might as well pick up this informative but heavy treatise
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 | Understanding Movies, 9th Edition by Louis Giannetti
Buy used from: $2.32 Let's leave you with this excellent compilation, now with a new cover from Gladiator
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 | A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.90 Scorsese is arguably the greatest director still making movies today, and this four-hour journey through the movies that inspired and moved him over the years is absolutely fantastic.
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