These are all books about individual films (or film series). I
haven’t included books which concentrate only on visual elements and/or special effects. I have also excluded short works of 100
pages or so such as the BFI Film Classics series.
- The African Queen (1951) Katherine
Hepburn - The Making Of The African Queen (1987)
- Alien
Films (1979-1997) David
Thomson -The Alien Quartet (1999)
- All About Eve (1950) Sam Staggs - All About All
About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever
Made! (2001)
- Apocalypse Now (1979) Peter
Cowie - The
Apocalypse Now Book (2001)
- The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959) Robin Wood - The Apu
Trilogy (1971)
- Avatar (2009) Jody
Duncan and Lisa Fitzpatrick - The Making of Avatar (2010)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman – The Dude and the Zen Master (2013)
- Blade Runner (1982) Judith
B. Kerman (Ed)- Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s
Blade Runner and Philip K.Dick’s Do
Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep?(1991)/Paul M. Sammon - Future Noir: The
Making of Blade Runner (1996)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Julie Salamon- The Devil’s Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to
Hollywood (2002)
- Brewster McCloud (1970) Kirk
C.McLelland - On Making A Movie: Brewster McCloud (1971)
- Casablanca (1942) Aljean Harmetz - Round Up The
Usaul Suspects (1992)
- Citizen Kane (1941) Pauline Kael-
The Citizen Kane Book (1971)/ Robert L. Carringer - The Making of "Citizen Kane"
(1996)
- The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012) Jody Duncan Jesser and
Janine Pourroy - The
Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy (2012)
- The Deceivers (1988) Ismael
Merchant - Hullabaloo In Old Jaypore: The Making Of The Deceivers (1989)
- El Mariachi (1992) Roberto
Rodriguez- Rebel Without A Crew, Or How A 23 Year Old Film-Maker With
$7,000 Became A Hollywood Player (1996)
- The Emerald Forest (1985) John Boorman -
Money Into Light: The Emerald Forest Diaries (1985)
- Frenzy (1972) Raymond Foery - Alfred
Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece (2012)
- The Godfather Trilogy (1972-1990) Harlan Lebo - The
Godfather Legacy: The Untold Story of the Making of the Classic Godfather
Trilogy (2005)/ Tom
Santopietro - The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me
(2012)
- Gone With the Wind (1939) Gavin
Lambert - The Making of Gone With The Wind (1976)/ Herb Bridges and Terryl
C. Boodman - Gone With the Wind: The Definitive Illustrated History of the
Book, the Movie and the Legend (1989) / Darden Asbury Pyron - Southern
Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone with the
Wind (2005) / Molly Haskell - Frankly, My Dear: "Gone with the
Wind" Revisited (2010)
- The Great Gatsby (1974) Bruce
Bahrenburg - Filming the Great
Gatsby (1974)
- Harry Potter Films (2001-2011) Brian Sibley - Harry
Potter Film Wizardry (2010) / Bob McCabe - Harry Potter
Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey (2011)
- Heaven’s Gate (1980) Steven Bach -
Final Cut (1985)
- Imitation of Life (1959) Sam
Staggs - Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life by (2010)
- Indiana Jones Films (1981-2008) J. W. Rinzler and Laurent
Bouzereau - The Complete Making of Indiana Jones: The Definitive Story
Behind All Four Films (2008)
- Intolerance (1916) William M. Drew -
D.W.Griffith’s Intolerance: Its Genesis and Vision (1986)
- James Bond Films (from 1962) James Chapman - Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James
Bond Films (2008) / Paul Duncan - The James Bond Archives (2012)/ Roger Moore - Bond On Bond:
Reflections on 50 years of James Bond Movies (2012)
- Jaws (1975) Edith
Blake – The Making of the Movie Jaws (1975)/
Carl Gottlieb- The Jaws Log (1975)
- Jurassic Park (1993) Don
Shay and Jody Duncan -The Making of Jurassic Park (1993)
- King Kong (1976) Bruce
Bahrenburg - The Creation of Dino
De Laurentis' King Kong (1976)
- The Matrix (1999) Glenn
Yeffeth (Ed)- Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in the
Matrix (2003)
- The Misfits (1961) James
Goode - The Story of the Misfits (1963)
- National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Matty Simmons - Fat, Drunk & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House (2012)
- Night of the Hunter (1955) Preston
Neal Jones - Heaven and Hell to Play With: The Filming of ‘Night of the
Hunter’ (2002)
- The Prince and the
Showgirl
(1957) Colin Clark - The
Prince, the Showgirl and Me: Six Months on the Set with Marilyn Monroe and
Olivier (1996)
- Psycho (1960) Stephen Rebello - Alfred
Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (1990)/ Raymond Durgnat - A Long, Hard
Look at Psycho (2008)
- The Red Badge Of Courage (1951)
Liliian Ross - Picture (1952)
- Secret People (1952) Lindsay
Anderson - The Making Of A Film : The Story Of ‘Secret People’ (1952)
- Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs (1937) Richard
Holliss and Brian Sibley - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs & the
Making of the Classic Film (1994) / Martin Krause and Linda
Witowski - Walt Disney's Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs: An Art in Its Making (1995)
- A Star Is Born (1954) Ronald
Haver - A Star Is Born: The Making of the 1954 Movie and Its 1983
Restoration (2002)
- Star Wars (from 1977) Glenn Kenny -A Galaxy Not
So far Away : Writers and Artists on 25 Years of Star Wars (2002)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1950) Sam
Staggs - When Blanche Met Brando: The Scandalous Story of "A
Streetcar Named Desire" (2006)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sam Staggs - Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond,
and the Dark Hollywood Dream (2003)
- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Melvin van Peebles - Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: A
Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto (2004)
- Taxi Driver (1976) Geoffrey
Macnab - The Making of Taxi Driver (2009)
- The Searchers (1956) Glenn Frankel - The
Searchers-The Making of an American Legend (2013)
- Titanic (1997) W.Marsh (Ed) - James
Cameron’s Titanic (1997)/ Paula Parsi - Titanic and the Making of James
Cameron (1998)/ Kevin S.Sandler and Galylan Studlar (Eds) - Titanic: Anatomy
of A Blockbuster (1999)
- Toy Story (1995) John
Lasseter and Steve Daly - Toy Story The Art and
Making of the Animated Film (2009)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie
(1983)
Stephen Farber & Marc Green - Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the
Twilight Zone Case (1988)
- Up Close and Personal (1996) John Gregory
Dunne - Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (1998)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) Aljean
Harmetz - The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1977)
