New year, new books! Let's kick off the new year (albeit a little late) with some classic film books.
Are you new to my list? Here are the details. The books include biographies, memoirs, scholarly texts, coffee table books and more from a variety of publishers. For any scholarly books I make sure the ones included are affordable. There are also some reissues added to the bunch. Publication dates range from January to June 2022 and these are subject to change.
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JANUARY
Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film
by Liz Clarke
Rutgers University Press
Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
by Dana Stevens
Atria Books
432 pages — January 2022
The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema
by Ian Haydn Smith
Lincoln
208 pages — January 2022
The Making of a Filmmaker
by Henry K. Miller
University of California Press
250 pages — January 2022
Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
by Neil Badmington
SUNY Press
by Andrew Norman
White Owl
208 pages — January 2022
FEBRUARY
More Dark Alleys of Classic Horror Cinema
by Gregory William Mank
McFarland
328 pages — February 2022
A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards
by John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky
Foreword by Helen O'Hara
Rowman and Littlefield
A Cultural History of the Most Glamorous, Radical, and Scandalous Oscar Fashion
Esther Zuckerman, Montana Forbes (Illustrated by)
Running Press
240 pages — February 2022
A Filmmaker's Life
by James Curtis
Knopf
832 pages — February 2022
Fashion, Architecture and Interior Design on Film
by Jess Berry
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
224 pages — February 2022
Paris 1850–1907
edited by by Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, Vanessa R. Schwartz
DelMonico Books and LACMA
192 pages — February 2022
The Style and Themes of Cinema's Dark Genre
by Diana Royer
McFarland
229 pages — February 2022
How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
by Isaac Butler
Bloomsbury Publishing
512 pages — February 2022
Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s
by Kevin Grant
McFarland
161 pages — February 2022
The Making of an Irish Epic
Paul Benedict Rowan
University Press of Kentucky
364 pages — February 2022
100 Outstanding Film Performances with Screen Time of 10 Minutes or Less
by John DiLeo
Gliterati
320 pages — February 2022
MARCH
by Barry Keith Grant
BFI
224 pages — March 2022
by D. A. Miller
BFI
128 pages — March 2022
Master of Suspense
by Noel Simsolo and illustrated by Dominique He
NBM Publishing
312 pages — March 2022
The Basil Rathbone Story
by David Clayton
The History Press
192 pages — March 2022
The Complete History of the Women Who Broke Barriers and Redefined Roles
by Alicia Malone
Mango
224 pages — March 2022
by Jon Lewis
The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
by Bernard F. Dick
University Press of Mississippi
304 pages — March 2022
How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World
by Ross Melnick
Columbia University Press
496 pages — March 2022
From New Yorker Films to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
edited by Daniel Talbot and Toby Talbot
foreword by Werner Herzog
Columbia University Press
312 pages — March 2022
The Triumph of American Cinema’s Trade Press
Eric Hoyt
University of California Press
294 pages — March 2022
The 100 Most Popular Films of a Revolutionary Decade
by Brian Hannan
McFarland
247 pages — March 2022
by Edward Buscombe
BFI
96 pages — March 2022
by Joan Mellen
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century
by Stephen Galloway
Grand Central Publishing
416 pages — March 2022
by Christina N. Baker
Rutgers University Press
174 pages — March 2022
APRIL
The Essential Guide to Euro-Westerns
by Kevin Grant
Foreword by Franco Nero
FAB Press
480 pages — April 2022
A Life on Stage and Screen
by Axel Nissen
McFarland
220 pages — April 2022
by Max Alvarez
University Press of Mississippi
330 pages — April 2022
Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powell's
50 Films Celebrating Cinema's Greatest Stunts
by Scott McGee
TCM and Running Press
288 pages — April 2022
How They Create, Craft and Communicate
by David Jenkins
Laurence King Publishing
128 pages — April 2022
Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
by Douglas Horlock
University Press of Mississippi
256 pages — April 2022
University Press of Kentucky
336 pages — April 2022
The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation
by Alison Macor
University of Texas Press
240 pages — April 2022
Excelsior Editions
326 pages — April 2022
The American World War II Film
by Bernard F. Dick
University Press of Kentucky
300 pages — April 2022
The Life and Times of Dale Evans
by Theresa Kaminski
Lyons Press
392 pages — April 2022
A Viewer’s Guide
James R. Russo
Sussex Academic Press
288 pages — April 2022
MAY
by Matthew Page
BFI
256 pages — May 2022
Applause Books
May 2022
Ecco
464 pages — May 2022
Daily Inspiration and Frontier Wisdom for Men
by Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine
Media Lab Books
384 pages — May 2022
University Press of Kentucky
552 pages — May 2022
Theory of Studio-Era Filmmaking
by Ana Salzberg
Edinburgh University Press
256 pages — May 2022
by Nghi Vo
Tordotcom
288 pages — May 2022
Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
by Michelle Morgan
Pegasus Books
320 pages — May 2022
Titan Books
128 pages — May 2022
JUNE
The Early Cinema of Raoul Walsh
by Tom Conley
SUNY Press
256 pages — June 2022
How Movies Began
by Meghan McCarthy
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
48 pages — June 2022
Filmmaker and Philosopher
by Mark William Roche
Bloomsbury Academic
224 pages — June 2022
First Lady of Film
by José-Louis Bocquet,
illustrated by Catel Muller
SelfMadeHero
edited by Tony Nourmand
text by Paul Duncan
Reel Art Press
256 pages — June 2022
Through the Lens of Six Great Photographers
by James Clarke
Acc Art Books
252 pages — June 2022
Do any of these titles pique your interest? Let me know in the comment section.
Here are my previous round-ups:
New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (1)
New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (2)
New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (3)
New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (4)
New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (5)
New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (6)
New & Upcoming Classic Film Books (7)
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