 | Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause by Lawrence Frascella
Buy used from: $0.01 A wonderful combination of film criticism, cinema history, sociological insight, and juicy gossip
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 | Picture by Lillian Ross
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $5.40 This inside look at the making of Red Badge of Courage is one of the best books about filmmaking ever written
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 | City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's by Otto Friedrich
Buy new: $23.89 / Used from: $5.26 Beutifully written look at 1940s Hollwood
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 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $2.15 Fascinating stories of Hollywood in the 1970s
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 | James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism (Library of America) by James Agee
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $16.17 One of the great humanist film critics
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 | The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated by David Thomson
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.49 Indisensable resource
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 | Hitchcock (Revised Edition) by Helen G. Scott
Buy new: $16.10 / Used from: $7.00 A book every film student should read
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 | The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $18.75 The most entertaining audiobook ever recorded
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 | Final Cut : Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists by Steven Bach
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $6.70 Story of a disaster
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 | The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood by Julie Salamon
Buy new: $16.24 / Used from: $0.35 Story of an even bigger disaster
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 | The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929-1968 by Andrew Sarris
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $3.30 Film criticism'a great auteur
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 | Who the Hell's in It: Portraits and Conversations by Peter Bogdanovich
Buy used from: $2.21 Insightful interviews
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 | Scorsese on Scorsese: Revised Edition by David Thompson
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $3.99 America's greatest living director
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 | The Studio by John Gregory Dunne
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $3.92 Amazing account of a year in the life of a studio
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 | The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $2.55 Still the most important book about gays in cinema
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 | The Stanley Kubrick Archives
Buy used from: $195.00 The greatest director of all time
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 | Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.95 Best how-to guide to film directing
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 | Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $4.00 Best how-to guide to screenwriting
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 | What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.49 Best Hollywood novel
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 | Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky
Buy new: $24.26 / Used from: $13.13 Hollywood's darkest moment
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 | You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips
Buy new: $25.74 / Used from: $0.74 Guilty pleasure
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 | By Myself and Then Some by Lauren Bacall
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $0.01 Best autobiography by a star
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 | The Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties by Sam Kashner
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $2.94 A fun survey of Hollywood in the 1950s
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 | The Films in My Life by François Truffaut
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $5.72 Truffaut's valentine to the movies
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 | 5001 Nights at the Movies by Pauline Kael
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $3.18 The queen of movie critics. "Off with their heads!"
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