Books about Film: a teaser
Jessica
There's a new wee project on the horizon, and we couldn't be more excited. 'Watch, Read, Think, Act!' is a collaboration between Lighthouse and the brilliant folks at Take One Action.
As a wee teaser for this cinematic celebration of solidarity, art and collective action, our team of booksellers and our pals over at Take One Action put together a list of film-related books.
We've started off with personal favourites from both teams which explore, in a wide variety of ways, the possibilities, complications, joys and histories populating the world of film-making, and then we've thrown it open to fantastic film writing more generally.
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Linked Books

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 - Diary of a Film
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 - Govinden, Niven
 

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 - Reel to Real : Race, Sex and Class at the Movies
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 - hooks, bell
 

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 - The Story of Film
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 - Mark Cousins
 

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 - The Fictional Man
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 - Al Ewing
 

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 - The Accidental
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 - Smith, Ali
 

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 - The Bluest Eye
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 - Morrison, Toni
 

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 - Ponti
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 - Teo, Sharlene
 

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 - Queer Cinema in the World
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 - Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt
 

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 - Filmish : A Graphic Journey Through Film
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 - Ross, Edward, Biffi, Jean-Pierre
 

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 - An Illustrated History of Filmmaking
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 - Allsuch Boardman, Adam
 

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 - The End : Surviving the World Through Fictional Disasters
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 - Katie Goh
 

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 - FilmQuake : The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema
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 - Ian Haydn Smith
 

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 - The Lady from the Black Lagoon : Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
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 - O'Meara, Mallory
 

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 - Women vs Hollywood : The Fall and Rise of Women in Film
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 - O'Hara, Helen
 

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 - Science(ish) : The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies
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 - Edwards, Rick, Brooks, Michael
 

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 - Furious Feminisms : Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road
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 - Boylan, Alexis L., Duane, Anna Mae, Gill, Michael, Gurr, Barbara
 

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 - Men, Women, and Chain Saws : Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
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 - Clover, Carol J., Clover, Carol J.
 

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 - Old Futures : Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
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 - Lothian, Alexis
 

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 - The Big Goodbye : Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
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 - Wasson, Sam
 

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 - Zona
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 - Geoff Dyer
 

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 - Ghibliotheque : The Unofficial Guide to the Movies of Studio Ghibli
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 - Leader, Michael, Cunningham, Jake