Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder
On the History of Film Style pdf online
Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
Film Art: An Introduction
Christopher Nolan: A Labyrinth of Linkages pdf online
Pandora’s Digital Box: Films, Files, and the Future of Movies pdf online
Planet Hong Kong, second edition pdf online
The Way Hollywood Tells It pdf online
Poetics of Cinema pdf online
Figures Traced In Light
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema pdf online
Exporting Entertainment: America in the World Film Market 1907–1934 pdf online
Hou Hsiao-hsien: A new video lecture!
CinemaScope: The Modern Miracle You See Without Glasses
How Motion Pictures Became the Movies
Constructive editing in Pickpocket: A video essay
Rex Stout: Logomachizing
Lessons with Bazin: Six Paths to a Poetics
A Celestial Cinémathèque? or, Film Archives and Me: A Semi-Personal History
Shklovsky and His “Monument to a Scientific Error”
Murder Culture: Adventures in 1940s Suspense
The Viewer’s Share: Models of Mind in Explaining Film
Common Sense + Film Theory = Common-Sense Film Theory?
Mad Detective: Doubling Down
The Classical Hollywood Cinema Twenty-Five Years Along
Nordisk and the Tableau Aesthetic
William Cameron Menzies: One Forceful, Impressive Idea
Another Shaw Production: Anamorphic Adventures in Hong Kong
Paolo Gioli’s Vertical Cinema
(Re)Discovering Charles Dekeukeleire
Doing Film History
The Hook: Scene Transitions in Classical Cinema
Anatomy of the Action Picture
Hearing Voices
Preface, Croatian edition, On the History of Film Style
Slavoj Žižek: Say Anything
Film and the Historical Return
Studying Cinema
New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 512 pages. [go to Amazon]
On the History of Film Style
Second edition, 2018. 353 pages (pdf online)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 592 pages. [go to Amazon]
The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 176 pages. [go to Amazon]
Christopher Nolan: A Labyrinth of Linkages
Second edition, 2019. 71 pages (pdf online)
Pandora’s Digital Box: Films, Files, and the Future of Movies
First edition, 2012. 237 pages (pdf online)
Planet Hong Kong
Second edition, 2011. 299 pages, 441 color illustrations (pdf online)
The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood
by Kristin Thompson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 400 pages, 6 × 9 inches, 12 color illustrations; 36 b/w illustrations. [go to Amazon | go to The Frodo Franchise blog]
Textbook written with Kristin Thompson and Jeff Smith. Twelfth edition, New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2019.[go to Amazon]
Film History: An Introduction
Textbook written with Kristin Thompson (first-named author). Fourth edition, New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2018. [go to Amazon]
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