What to Read After Documentary
Readers who loved Documentary by Erik Barnouw keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Documentary 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 Documentary
The film sense
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
The Twilight zone companion
Directing the documentary
Hitchcock's films revisited
Blind Date
A history of narrative film
The Epic of America
Death kit
From Caligari to Hitler
Technopoly
Men, women, and chain saws
How to read a film
Notes on the Cinematographer (Sun and Moon Classics)
Film form
Making movies
Film art
Sculpting in Time
In the blink of an eye
Screenplay
Hitchcock
Mythologies
Understanding Comics