Victor Fleming
An American Movie Master
Written by Michael Sragow

Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: December 9, 2008
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40748-2 (0-375-40748-0)

The definitive, full-length biography of the legendary director of Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

Although he is remembered for the two biggest icons of Hollywood’s golden age, the more than forty films Victor Fleming directed also included genre westerns, earthy sexual melodramas, family entertainment, screwball comedies, buddy pictures... Read more >

Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers
The Next Generation
Written by George Stevens, Jr.

Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27347-5 (0-307-27347-4)

A companion volume to George Stevens, Jr.’s, much admired book of American Film Institute seminars with the great pioneering moviemakers (“Invaluable”—Martin Scorsese).

Those represented here—directors, producers, writers, actors, cameramen, composers, editors—are men and women working in pictures, beginning in 1950, when the studio system was collapsing and people could no longer depend... Read more >

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute

Written by George Stevens, Jr.

Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3314-0 (1-4000-3314-4)

The first book to bring together these interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners.

Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang... Read more >

"Have You Seen . . . ?"
A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films
Written by David Thomson

Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71134-3 (0-375-71134-1)

More than one thousand pages in the voice of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian–a generous history of film and an enticing critical appraisal written with as much humor and passion as historical knowledge.

Juxtaposing the fanciful and the fabulous, the old favorites and the forgotten, this sweeping collection presents... Read more >

Beneath Mulholland
Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts
Written by David Thomson

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 24, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77291-0 (0-679-77291-X)

David Thomson is at his incomparable best in this stunning collection of essays on Hollywood films--their stars and the illusions they create. He explores a sort of twilight zone where film actors and the characters they play become part of our reality, as living beings and as ghosts, residing on or... Read more >

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
Fifth Edition, Completely Updated and Expanded
Written by David Thomson

Format: Hardcover, 1088 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27174-7 (0-307-27174-9)

David Thomson’s New Biographical Dictionary of Film topped Sight & Sound magazine’s 2010 poll of international critics and writers as the best film book of all time.

Now in its fifth edition, updated, and with more than 130 new entries—from Judd Apatow to Lena Horne—the classic, beloved film book is better than... Read more >

Nicole Kidman

Written by David Thomson

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7781-6 (1-4000-7781-8)

From the brilliant film historian and critic David Thomson, a book that reinvents the star biography in a singularly illuminating portrait of Nicole Kidman—and what it means to be a top actress today. At once life story, love letter, and critical analysis, this is not merely a book about who Kidman... Read more >

Rosebud
The Story of Orson Welles
Written by David Thomson

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 30, 1997
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77283-5 (0-679-77283-9)

Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into "a sustaining tragedy"--his thing, his song.  Now the prodigal genius of the American cinema finally... Read more >

Try to Tell the Story

Written by David Thomson

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47317-2 (0-307-47317-1)

David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England. He was born in London in the aftermath of the war, where he was raised by his mother, grandmother, and upstairs tenant, Miss Davis. He remembers... Read more >

The Whole Equation
A History of Hollywood
Written by David Thomson

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70154-2 (0-375-70154-0)

A magnificent history of Hollywood from the invention of film to the present day, by the everywhere acclaimed David Thomson, who has established himself as the “greatest living film critic and historian” (The Atlantic Monthly), “irreplaceable” (The New York Times), and simply “the best writer about the movies” (San Francisco Chronicle)... Read more >

Talk About Cinema

Written by Jean-Baptiste Thoret
Series edited by Elisabeth Couturier

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Flammarion
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-2-08-020096-9 (2-08-020096-8)

This fresh, engaging volume provides the key ideas for a better understanding of today’s cinematic style and the reference terms that are crucial to film studies by challenging preconceived ideas and clichés about cinema. It defines the main notions of film, explains major dates in its history, deciphers the leading works... Read more >

Stage Makeup
The Actor's Complete Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials
Written by Laura Thudium

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Back Stage Books
On Sale: April 1, 1999
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-8230-8839-3 (0-8230-8839-1)

This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table right as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers.

Whether you are an actor in a summer-stock or regional theater, an acting conservatory program, a high-school or college production, a community theater, a local holiday pageant...or... Read more >

The Art of Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Written by Mark Vaz

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: LucasBooks
On Sale: April 30, 2002
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-43125-7 (0-345-43125-1)

Mark Cotta Vaz provides the descriptive text in this information-packed book showcasing the concept art and sculptures used in making "Attack of the Clones".

This book also features the film's screenplay by George Lucas and Jonathan Hales.

Please Note: This title is not available at the examination price. Read more >

Stepin Fetchit
The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry
Written by Mel Watkins

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9676-3 (1-4000-9676-6)

In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as “the best actor that the talking movies have produced,” and Mel Watkins’s meticulously... Read more >

Advanced Cinematherapy
The Girl's Guide to Finding Happiness One Movie at a Time
Written by Beverly West and Nancy Peske

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-440-50915-8 (0-440-50915-7)

This movie guide includes dozens of new reviews of classic and modern movies that address women's issues.

PLEASE NOTE: This title is not available at the examination price. Read more >

Cinematherapy
The Girl's Guide to Movies for Every Mood
Written by Beverly West

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: March 9, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-440-50850-2 (0-440-50850-9)

This movie guide includes dozens of new reviews of classic and modern movies that address women's issues.

PLEASE NOTE: This title is not available at the examination price. Read more >

The Siege of Trencher's Farm - Straw Dogs

Written by Gordon Williams

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-85768-119-5 (0-85768-119-2)

American professor George Magruder, his wife Louise and their daughter rent an old, isolated house known as Trencher’s Farm in Cornwall, so George can finish his book. When George accidentally runs over a convicted child killer on the loose from a mental asylum, he confronts the brutal locals and sets in... Read more >

Robert Altman
The Oral Biography
Written by Mitchell Zuckoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38791-2 (0-307-38791-7)

Robert Altman’s outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a few enemies, as well as the agents, writers, crew members, producers, and stars who worked with him, including Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman... Read more >