Film & Film Theory

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The information is arranged according to type of resource. Click the menu on the left to find additional resources. (The following are just book titles, not hyperlinks. You actually have to go to the library or the book store if you want a copy (try Pitt's if Duquesne doesn't carry the book). Or you can purchase them from Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com.

BOOKS: General

Gazetas, Aristedes. An Introduction to World Cinema. North Carolina and London: McFarland and Company, 2000. A good history covering all the major waves.

Nowell-Smith, ed. The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. An 850-page, encyclopedia-like volume, with good articles on the major directors, genres, and waves.

Stam, Robert and Toby Miller. Film and Theory: An Anthology. London: Blackwell Publications, 2000. Thick and heavy-going, but contains good articles on many of the latest, albeit esoteric, theories on film.

BOOKS: Europe

Aitken, Ian. European Film Theory and Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Excellent introduction to the major European waves from a theoretic perspective, with good sections on Eisenstein, Bazin and other film theorists.

Ezra, Elizabeth, ed. European Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Good fact-based overview of the entire history of European cinema, from the late 1800s, to current times. Includes excellent essays on Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, Surrealism, British Social Realism, and New German Cinema.

Fowler, Catherine. European Cinema Reader. Routledge, 2002.

Taylor, Richard, ed., et al. The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Film. London: BFI Publishing, 2000. A dictionary-like reference work--not very deep but useful.

Gillespie, David. Russian Cinema. England: Pearson Educational Limited, 2003. Good historic overview, from Eisenstein to Tarkovsky.

Goulding, Daniel J. Five Filmmakers. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Excellent sections on Tarkovsky, Forman, Polanski, Szabo and Makavejev.

Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2002. Very close to a definitive history of the German cinema.

Elsaesser, Thomas, ed. The BFI Companion to German Cinema. London: BFI Publishing, 1999. Good intro on the current state of Germany's national cinema.

Street, Sarah. British National Cinema. New York: Routledge, 1997. Excellent overview of all major periods.

Murphy, Robert. British Cinema of the '90s. London: BFI Publishing, 2000. Good collection of essays on various genres of modern English film.

Bondanella, Peter. Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present. New York: Continuum Publishing Company, 1998.

Neupert, Richard. History of the French New Wave Cinema. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Central & Eastern European Cinema

List of books on Central and European Cinema recommended by Central Europe Review Excellent bibliography that includes books on Russian cinema, as well as Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, and Kieslowski.