What to Read After Visionary Film
Readers who loved Visionary Film by P. Adams Sitney keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Visionary Film 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 Visionary Film
Notes on the Cinematographer (Sun and Moon Classics)
It's only a movie
More than night
Film form
Filmmaking for dummies
Looking at Movies
Essential Deren
A Susan Sontag reader
The film sense
The filmmaker's eye
Story and discourse
If it's purple, someone's gonna die
Expanded cinema.
Alfred Hitchcock (Midsize)
The Imaginary Signifier
Film art
Against Interpretation
The poetics of space
The Girls
Franny and Zooey
Angela's Ashes
A Clockwork Orange
Heart of Darkness
Slaughterhouse-Five