What to Read After American Cinema
Readers who loved American Cinema by Andrew Sarris keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where American Cinema is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after American Cinema
Agee on Film
Pictures at a Revolution
The paranoid style in American politics
A Child of the Century
Hitchcock's Films Revisited
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
What Makes Sammy Run?
Persona and Shame
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
For Keeps
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film
Who the Devil Made It
Syntactic Structures
This is Orson Welles
From Reverence to Rape
Orson Welles
The Dream Life
On the History of Film Style
Understanding Media
The joy of sex
New Joy of Sex
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
A Cinema of Loneliness
Within the Context of No Context