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Books
Reviewed in issue 61
Harlan Ellison's Watching, by Harlan Ellison
Reviewed in issue 60
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, by Mark Harris
Reviewed in Issue 38
German National Cinema, by Sabine Hake
The New Dictionary of Film, by David Thomson
Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography by Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell
Reviewed in Issue 37
Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness, ed. by Daniel J. Bernardi
Walking with the Wind, by Abbas Kiarostami
Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, by Scott Sheridan, and Hollywood's Film Wars with France, by Jens Ulff Møller
Reviewed in Issue 36
Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle, by Allison Graham
The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin, and Censorship, by Jane Mills
Addicted: The Myth and Menace of Drugs in Film, ed. by Jack Stevenson
Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, by Chris Fujiwara
Member of the Crew, by Winfrid Kay Thackrey
John Ford Interviews, edited by Gerald Peary
George Cukor Interviews, edited by Robert Emmet Long
The Moving Image, edited by Jan-Christopher Horak
The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, by Daniel Bubbeo
White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film, by Gary D. Rhodes
Movie Poster Price Almanac: 2002 Review, edited by John Kisch
Reviewed in Issue 35
"It’s Only a Movie!": Films and Critics in American Culture, by Raymond J. Haberski
Close Up, Iranian Cinema Past Present and Future, by Hamid Dabashi
Reviewed in Issue 34
The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey, by John Saunders
Searching for John Ford: A Life, by Joseph McBride
My Son Divine, by Frances Milstead, with Kevin Heffernan and Steve Yeager
Reviewed in Issue 33
Actors Talk: Profiles and Stories from the Acting Trade, by Dennis Brown
France on Film: Reflections on Popular French Cinema, edited by Lucy Mazdon
Reviewed in Issue 32
The Nashville Chronicles: The Making of Robert Altman’s Masterpiece, by Jan Stuart
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mick LaSalle
On Cukor, by Gavin Lambert, edited by Robert Trachtenberg
Reviewed in Issue 29
Celluloid Mavericks: A History of American Independent Film, by Greg Merritt
Reviewed in Issue 28
Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, by Ellis Hanson
Back Lot: Growing Up with the Movies, by Maurice Rapf
Reviewed in Issue 27
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mark Vieira
The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Things, by Brad Steiger
Reviewed in Issue 26
Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew, by John Oller
VideoHound’s War Movies: Classic Conflict on Film, by Mike Mayo
100 Years of Oz: A Century of Classic Images from The Wizard of Oz collection of Willard Carroll, by John Fricke
Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir, by Foster Hirsch
The Ultimate Directory of Film Technicians: A Necrology of Dates and Place of Births and Deaths of More Than 9,000 Producers, Screenwriters, Composers, Cinematographers, Art Directors, Costume Designers, Choreographers, Executives, and Publicists, by Billy H. Doyle (Consulting Editor: Anthony Slide)
The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers, by Billy H. Doyle (Consulting Editor: Anthony Slide)
Eccentrics of Comedy, by Anthony Slide
Reviewed in Issue 25
The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, by J. Gordon Melton
The St. James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia: Women on the Other Side of the Camera, edited by Amy L. Unterberger
Stranger Than Paradise: Maverick Film-makers in Recent American Cinema, by Geoff Andrew
Reviewed in Issue 23
Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness, by Marshall Fine
That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960, by Henry T. Sampson
The Vampire Gallery, by J. Gordon Melton
VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever, 1999, edited by Martin Connors and Jim Craddock
Reviewed in Issue 22
Little Joe, Superstar: The Films of Joe Dallesandro, by Michael Ferguson
The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry, by Anthony Slide
Joseph H. Lewis: Overview, Interview, and Filmography, by Francis M. Nevins
Reviewed in Issue 21
Sing Out! Gays and Lesbians in the Music World, by Boze Hadleigh
VideoHound's Soundtracks, edited by Didier C. Deutsch
VideoHound's Independent Film Guide, by Monica Sullivan
Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale, by Pam Keesey
Billy Wilder, by Bernard F. Dick
William Wyler: A Talent for Trouble, by Jan Herman
September Song: An Intimate Biography of Walter Huston, by John Weld
Marihuana, Motherhood and Madness: Three Screenplays by Dwain Esper, by Bret Wood
Reviewed in Issue 20
VideoHound's Vampires on Video, by J. Gordon
VideoHound's Video Premieres, by Mike Mayo
Immoral Tales, by Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs
Filmmaking on the Fringe: The Good, the Bad, and the Deviant Director, by Maitland McDonagh
Jackie Chan: Inside the Dragon, by Clyde Gentry III
Horror and Science Fiction Films IV, by Donald C. Willis
Reviewed in Issue 18
Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of "Adults Only" Cinema, by Eddie Muller and Daniel Faris
Reviewed in Issue 15
A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-1960, by Jeanine Basinger
Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career, by Edmund G. Bansak
Reframing Culture: The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films, by William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson
Contemporary Argentine Cinema, by David William Foster
I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies, by Nicholas Ray (edited by Susan Ray)
