Site Bibiliography

 

With the amount of articles, reviews, and essays published on Deep Focus Review, a small library of resources are used. The texts include film history, film theory, and biographical resources, even reaching to online resources, DVD extras, and other media. I've attempted to compile a list of the most commonly used texts below.

If you have any questions regarding the bibliography, feel free to email me.

Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review

  • Anderegg, Michael. David Lean. Boston: Twayne, 1984.
  • Anderson, Lindsay. About John Ford. Plexus Publishing, 1999.
  • Auzenne, Valliere Richard. The Visualization Quest: A History of Computer Animation. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994.
  • Basinger, Jeanine. Anthony Mann. New and Expanted Edition. Middletown: Wesleyan, 2007.
  • Bazin, André; Truffaut, Francois. Jean Renoir. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1973.
  • Bazin, André. Orson Welles: a critical view. Foreword by François Truffaut; profile by Jean Cocteau; translated from the French by Jonathan Rosenbaum. New York : Harper & Row, 1978.
  • Beard, William. The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c2006.
  • Bellos, David. Jacques Tati: His Life and Art. London: Harvill, 1999.
  • Behlmer, Rudy. Memo from David O. Selznick. New York: Modern Library, 2000.
  • Benamou, Catherine L. It’s all true: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 
  • Bergan, Ronald. Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise. New York: The Overlook Press, 1992.
  • Bergman, Ingmar; Tate, Joan. The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography. University Of Chicago Press, 2007.
  • Bergman, Ingmar. Images: My Life In Film. Foreword by Woody Allen. Arcade Publishing, 1995.
  • Bergreen, Laurence. James Agee: A Life. New York: Dutton, 1984.
  • Bernstein, Matthew; Studlar, Gaylyn. John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era. Indiana University Press, 2001.
  • Billson, Anne. The Thing. British Film Institute Modern Classics, BFI Publishing, 1997.
  • Bogdonovich, Peter. John Ford (Revised and Enlarged edition). University of California Press, 1978.
  • Bogdanovich, Peter. Who the Devil Made It. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
  • Boulenger, Gilles. John Carpenter: The Prince of Darkness. Spakenburg: H.O.M. Vision, 2002.
  • Braudy, Leo; Cohen, Marshall. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  • Brownlow, Kevin. David Lean: A Biography. New York: St. Martin's, 1997.
  • Browning, Mark. David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? Bristol; London: Intellect, Ltd., 2007.
  • Callow, Simon. Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor. London: Methuen, 1987.
  • Callow, Simon. The Night of the Hunter. BFI Film Classics. London: BFI, 2000.
  • Campbell, Bruce. If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor. New York: LA Weekly Books for St. Martin’s Press, 2001
  • Campbell, Bruce. Make love!—the Bruce Campbell Way. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005.
  • Camper, Fred. "The Films of Douglas Sirk." Screen, Summer '71, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p44-62.
  • Carroll, Noel. The Philosophy of Horror. Routledge, 1990.
  • Chaplin, Charles. My Autobiography. Simon & Schuster, 1964.
  • Chion, Michel. The Films of Jacques Tati. Toronto: Guernica, 1997.
  • Chion, Michael. The Thin Red Line. Trans. Trista Selous. London: British Film Institute, 2004.
  • Christie, Ian. Arrows of Desire: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. London: Faber & Faber, 1994.
  • Christie, Ian. Powell, Pressburger and Others. London: BFI (British Film Institute), 1978.
  • Christie, Ian and Moor, Andrew, eds. The Cinema of Michael Powell. London: BFI (British Film Institute), 2005.
  • Christie, Ian; Thompson, David (edited by). Scorsese on Scorsese. Revised Edition.  London: Faber, 2003.
  • Couchman, Jeffrey. The Night of the Hunter: A Biography of a Film. New York: Northwestern University Press, 2009.
  • Cowie, Peter. Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography. New York: Scribner, c1982.
  • Cowie, Peter. John Ford and the American West. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2004.
  • Cronenberg on Cronenberg. Edited by Chris Rodley. London; Boston: Faber and Faber,  1992.
  • Curtis, James. Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges. New York: Harcourt,  Brace, Jovanovich, c1982.
  • Dombrowski, Lisa. The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill You! Wesleyan University Press, 2008.
  • Dondey, Marc. Jacques Tati. Paris: Ramsay, 1987.
  • Drazin, Charles. In Search of The Third Man. Limelight Editions (Proscenium), 2000.
  • Drazin, Charles. Korda: Britain's Only Movie Mogul. Sidgwick & Jackson, 2002.
  • Eckstein, Arthur; Lehman, Peter (edited by). The Searchers: Essays and Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004.
  • Elsaesser, Thomas. "Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama." Film Genre Reader II, edited by Barry Keith Grant. 1st ed. pp: 50-80. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
  • Eyman, Scott. Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1993.
  • Eyman, Scott. Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1999.
  • Fassbinder, Rainer Werner. “Six Films by Douglas Sirk”, in Laura Mulvey & Jon Halliday, Eds. Douglas Sirk. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Film Festival '72, 1972), p. 102.
  • Feineman, Neil. Nicolas Roeg. Boston: Twayne, 1978.
  • Flynn, Errol. My Wicked Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn. Bloomington, Ind.: Third Woman Press, 1987.
  • Frayling, Christopher. Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death. Faber & Faber, London: 2000.
  • Frayling, Christopher. Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. Routledge &  Kegan Paul, London: 1981.
  • Fuller, Samuel; Fuller, Christa Lang; Rudes, Jerome Henry. A Third Face: My Tale of  Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking.New York: Knopf, 2002.
  • Galbraith IV, Stuart. The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. New York: Faber and Faber, 2002.
  • Giles, Jane. The Crying Game. London: British Film Institute, 1997.
  • Gilliam, Terry. Edited by Ian Christie. Gilliam on Gilliam. London; New York: Faber and Faber, c1999.
  • Goodwin, James. Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994.
  • Haines, Richard W. Technicolor Movies: The History of Dye Transfer Printing. McFarland & Company, 2003.
  • Halliday, Jon. Sirk on Sirk. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1997.
  • Harmetz, Aljean. Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of "Casablanca". Orion Publishing Co, 1993.
  • Harvey, James. Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges. New York: Knopf, 1987.
  • Haskell, Molly. Frankly, My Dear: 'Gone with the Wind' Revisited. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
  • Haskell, Molly. From Reverence to Rape. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1974.
  • Heylin, Clinton. Despite the System: Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2005.
  • John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape. Dir. Michael Matessino. DVD. Universal, 1998.
  • Higham, Charles. Charles Laughton: An Intimate Biography. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976.
  • Izod, John. The Films of Nicolas Roeg. Basingstoke: Macmillian, 1992.
  • Jones, Ann. Women Who Kill. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1981.
  • Jones, Preston Neal. Heaven and Hell to Play With: The Filming of 'The Night of the Hunter'. New York: Limelight, 2004.
  • Kalmus, Herbert. “Technicolor Adventures in Cinemaland,” Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, December 1938.
  • Kermode, Mark. The Exorcist (BFI Modern Classics). British Film Institute; 2nd Revised edition, 2008.
  • Kitses, Jim. Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood. British Film Institute; 2Rev Ed edition, 2008.
  • Klinger, Barbara. Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk. Illustated Edition. Indiana University Press, 1994.
  • Kramer, Victor. James Agee. Boston: Twayne, 1975.
  • Krohn, Bill. Hitchcock At Work. London: Phaidon, 2000.
  • Kurosawa, Akira. Something Like An Autobiography. New York : Knopf: distributed by Random House, 1982.
  • Lasseter, John; Daly, Steve. Toy Story: The Art and Making of the Animated Film. New York: Hyperion, 1995.
  • Leaming, Barbara. Polanski, The Filmmaker as Voyeur: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
  • Mackendrick, Alexander. On Filmmaking: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director, ed. Paul Cronin. New York: Faber and Faber, 2004.
  • Mathews, Jack. The Battle of Brazil: The Nightmare Fantasy Making of the Movie.  New York: Applause; Milwaukee, WI: Distributed by Hal Leonard Corp., 1998.
  • Maxford, Howard. David Lean. London: Batsford, 2000.
  • McBride, Joseph. Orson Welles. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. 
  • McBride, Joseph. Searching for John Ford: A Life. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003.
  • McCarthy, Todd. Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood. New York: Grove Press, 2000.
  • McGilligan, Patrick. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light.New York: Regan Books, c2003.
  • McNulty, Thomas. Errol Flynn: The Life and Career. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2004.
  • Michaels, Lloyd. Terrence Malick. Illinois: University of Illinois Press; 1st edition, 2008.
  • Modleski, Tania.The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory.New York: Routledge, 2006.
  • Molt, Cynthia Marylee. Gone with the Wind on Film: A Complete Reference. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1990.
  • Moor, Andrew. Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces (Cinema and Society). London; New York: I.B. Tauris; New York, NY: Distributed in the U.S.  by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • Mosley, Leonard. Zanuck: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Last Tycoon. Boston: Little, Brown, c1984.
  • Myrick, Susan. White Columns in Hollywood: Reports from the GWTW Sets. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1982.
  • Naremore, James. Sweet Smell of Success. London: British Film Institute, 2010.
  • O'Connor, Garry. Alec Guinness: Master of Disguise. London: Hodder & Storighton, 1994.
  • Okuda, Ted; Maska, David. Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp. iUniverse, New York, 2005.
  • Page, Edwin. Ordinary Heroes: The Films of Danny Boyle. London: Empiricus Books, 2010.
  • Parker, John. Polanski. London, 1994.
  • Patterson, Hannah (Editor). The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America. Second Edition. Great Britain: Wallflower Press; 2nd edition, 2007.
  • Petrie, Graham. Hollywood destinies: European directors in America, 1922-1931. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2002.
  • Phillips, Gene. Beyond the Epic: The Life & Films of David Lean. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2006.
  • Polanski, Roman. Roman by Polanski. New York: Morrow, 1985.
  • Powell, Michael. A Life in Movies: An Autobiography. New York: Knopf, 1987.
  • Powell, Michael. Million Dollar Movie. London: Heinemann, 1992.
  • Pratley, Gerald. The Cinema of David Lean. New York: Barnes, 1974.
  • Pratt, William. Scarlett Fever. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1977.
  • Price, David A. The Pixar Touch. New York: Knopf, 2008.
  • Raphael, Amy. Danny Boyle: In His Own Words. London: Faber & Faber, 2010.
  • Renoir, Jean. My Life and My Films. New York: Da Capo Press, 1991.
  • Richie, Donald. The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated. With additional material by Joan Mellen. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1996.
  • Richie, Donald; Schrader, Paul. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Video. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International: Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha America, 2005.
  • Richie, Donald. Ozu: His Life and Films. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974.
  • Robertson, James C.. The Casablanca Man: The Cinema of Michael Curtiz. London; New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Robinson, David. Chaplin: His Life and Art. McGraw-Hill, second edition, 2001.
  • Rockett, Emer; Rockett, Kevin. Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries. Dublin, Ireland: Liffey Press, 2003.
  • Rosenzweig, Sidney. Casablanca and Other Major Films of Michael Curtiz. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1982.
  • Russell, Rosalind; Chase, Chris. Life’s a Banquet. New York: Random House, 1977.
  • Salwolke, Scott. Nicolas Roeg Film by Film. Jefferson, NC: McFarkland, 1993.
  • Sanderson, Mark. Don't Look Now. London: BFI (British Film Institute), 1996.
  • Sandford, Christopher. Polanski: A Biography. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • Schatz, Thomas. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. New York: Pantheon, 1988.
  • Schickel, Richard. Bogie: a celebration of the life and films of Humphrey Bogart. London: Aurum, 2006.
  • Schickel, Richard. Cary Grant: A Celebration. Boston: Little, Brown, c1983.
  • Schickel, Richard. The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 2006.
  • Schickel, Richard. The Men who made the movies: interviews with Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh, and William A.Wellman. New York: Atheneum, 1975.
  • Scorsese, Martin; Henry, Michael. A Personal Journey Through American Movies. New York: Hyperion, 1997.
  • Sesonske, Alexandre. Jean Renoir: The French Films, 1924-1939. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
  • Singer, Irving. Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity. The MIT Press, 2007.
  • Sinyard, Neil. The Films of Nicolas Roeg. London: Letts, 1991.
  • Smith, Murray. Trainspotting. British Film Institute Modern Classics, BFI Publishing, 2008.
  • Sturges, Preston; Sturges, Tom. Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words.New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
  • Thomas, Bob. The Art of Animation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958.
  • Thomson, David. Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
  • Truffaut, François. Hitchcock. With the collaboration of Helen G Scott. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.
  • Vance, Jeffrey. Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
  • Vincendeau, Ginette. Jean-Pierre Melville: ‘An American in Paris’.London: British Film Institute, 2003.
  • Welles, Orson; Bogdanovich, Peter.This is Orson Welles. Edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.
  • Yule, Andrew. Losing the Light: Terry Gilliam and the Munchausen Saga. New York, NY: Applause Books, c1991.
  • Žižek, Slavoj. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock).London; New York: Verso, 1992.
  • Zucker, Carole. The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival. New York: Wallflower Press, 2008.