Further Reading
 Genres
Animation
Michael Barrier, Hollywood cartoons: American animation in its golden age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) Buy here
Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald, Warner Bros. animation art (Virgin Publishing, 1998) Buy here
Giannalberto Bendazzi, Cartoons (John Libbey Cinema and Animation, 1994) Buy here
Preston Blair, Cartoon animation (Walter Foster Publishing Inc., 1997) Buy here
John Canemaker, Felix: the twisted tale of the world's most famous cat (Da Capo Press, 1996) Buy here
Christopher Finch, The art of Walt Disney (Virgin Publishing, 1999) Buy here
Stefan Kanfer, Serious business: the art and commerce of animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story (Da Capo Press, 2000) Buy here
Kit Laybourne, The animation book: a complete guide to animated filmmaking (Three Rivers Press, 1998) Buy here
E.G. Lutz, Animated cartoons (Applewood Books, 1998) Buy here
Leonard Maltin, The Disney films (Hyperion, 2000) Buy here
Ernest Pintoff, Animation 101 (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999) Buy here
Janet Wasko, Understanding Disney (Polity Press, 2001) Buy here
Tony White, The animator's workbook (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1988) Buy here
Film Noir and Crime
Steve Chibnall and Robert Murphy (eds), British crime cinema (London: Routledge, 1999) Buy here
Carlos Clarens and Foster Hirsch, Crime movies (Da Capo Press, 1997) Buy here
Paul Duncan, Film noir (Pocket Essentials, 2000) Buy here
Foster Hirsch, The dark side of the screen: film noir (Da Capo Press, 1984) Buy here
Alain Silver, The noir style (Aurum Press, 1999) Buy here
Horror
Steve Chibnall (ed.), British horror cinema (London: Routledge, 2001) Buy here
Carlos Clarens, Illustrated history of horror and science fiction films (Da Capo Press, 1997) Buy here
Ken Gelder (ed.), The horror reader (London: Routledge, 2000) Buy here
Jack Hunter, House of horror: the Hammer Films story (Creation Books, 2000) Buy here
Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Horror film reader (Limelight Editions, 2000) Buy here
Paul Wells, The horror genre: from Beelzebub to Blair Witch (Wallflower Press, 2001) Buy here
Musicals
Rick Altman, The American film musical (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987) Buy here
Richard Barrios, A song in the dark: the birth of the musical film (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) Buy here
Edwin M. Bradley, The first Hollywood musicals: a critical filmography of 171 features, 1927 through 1932 (Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland and Company, 1996) Buy here
Jane Feuer, The Hollywood musical (Palgrave, 1992) Buy here
Gerald Mast, Can't help singin': the American musical on stage and screen (Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1987) Buy here
Martin Rubin, Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the tradition of spectacle (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993) Buy here
Science Fiction
Daniel Bernardi, Star Trek and history (Rutgers University Press, 1998) Buy here
Scott Bukatman, Blade Runner (London: BFI publishing, 1997) Buy here
Carlos Clarens, Illustrated history of horror and science fiction films (Da Capo Press, 1997) Buy here
Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska, Science fiction cinema: from outer space to cyberspace (Wallflower Press, 2001) Buy here
Kim Newman, Apocalypse movies: end of the world cinema (St Martin's Press, 2000) Buy here
J.P. Telotte, Science fiction film (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) Buy here
Shakespeare
Douglas Brode, Shakespeare in the movies (Oxford University Press Inc., 2000) Buy here
Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells (eds), Shakespeare and the moving image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) Buy here
Kenneth S. Rothwell, A history of Shakespeare on screen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) Buy here
Special effects cinema
Geoff King, Spectacular narratives (I.B. Tauris, 2000) Buy here
Richard Rickett, Special effects : the history and technique (Virgin Books, 2000) Buy here
Thomas G. Smith, Industrial Light & Magic: the art of special effects (Virgin Books, 1988) Buy here
Mark Cotta Vaz, et al., Industrial Light & Magic: into the digital realm (Virgin Books, 1996) Buy here
Spy films
James Chapman, Licence to thrill (I.B. Tauris, 1999) Buy here
Alastair Dougall, James Bond: the secret world of 007 (Dorling Kindersley, 2000) Buy here
Teen films
Jonathan Bernstein, Pretty in Pink: The Golden Age of Teenage Movies (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997) Buy here
Peter Biskind, Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties (London: Bloomsbury, 2001) Buy here
Henry A. Giroux, Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence and Youth (London: Routledge, 1996) Buy here
Andrew Goodwin, Dancing in the distraction factory: Music television and popular culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992) Buy here
Marsha Kinder, Playing with power in movies, television, and video games: From Muppet babies to teenage mutant ninja turtles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) Buy here
Peter Lev, American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000) Buy here
Steve Neale, Genre and Hollywood (London: Routledge, 2000) Buy here
Andrew Pulver and Steven Paul Davies, Brat Pack: Confidential (B.T. Batsford: London, 2000) Buy here
War
John Whiteclay Chambers and David Culbert, World War II, Film, and History (Oxford University Press Inc., 1997) Buy here
James Chapman, The British at war: cinema, state and propaganda, 1939-1945 (I.B. Tauris, 2000) Buy here
Peter Guttmacher, Legendary war movies (Grange Books, 1997) Buy here
Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, Hollywood goes to war (Tauris Parke, 2000) Buy here
Robert Murphy, British cinema and the Second World War (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000) Buy here
Michael Paris (ed.), The First World War and popular cinema: 1914 to the present (Rutgers University Press, 2000) Buy here
Westerns
Edward Buscombe and Roberta Pearson (eds), Back in the saddle again (London: BFI publishing, 1998) Buy here
Christopher Frayling, Spaghetti westerns (I.B. Tauris, 1998) Buy here
Howard Hughes, Spaghetti westerns (Pocket Essentials, 2001) Buy here
Lee Clark Mitchell, Westerns (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998) Buy here
Michael R. Pitts, Western movies (McFarland and Company, 1998) Buy here
Ted Sennett, Great Hollywood westerns (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992) Buy here
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