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Film Books

The Animation Book  Kit Laybourne

The Filmmakers Handbook  Steven Ascher and Edward Pincus

Film Theory and Criticism  Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen

Visionary Film:  The American Avant-Garde  Adams Sitney

Directing  Michel Rabiger

Documentary:  A History of Non Fiction Film  Erik Barouw

Writing, Directing and Producing Documentary Films  Alen Rosenthal

Film Lighting:  Talks with Hollywood’s Cinematographers and Gaffers  Kris  Malkiewicz

Film Form  Eisenstein

Sculpting in Time  Andrei Tarkovsky

The Five C’s of Cinematography:  Motion Picture Filmming Techniques  Joseph V.  Mascelli

Cinematographers  Manual   Stephen Burum 

Indie Producers Handbook:  Creative Producing from A-Z  Myrl A.  Schreibman

Godard on Godard  Jean Luc Godard
Interviews  Jean Luc Godard

The Classical Hollywood Cinema  Kristin Thompson

French Impressionist Cinema:  Film Culture, Film Theory, and Film Style  David Bordwell

World Cinema  edited by John Hill & Pamela Church Gibson

Cinema of the Occult   Carroll L.  Fry

Cinema of Sensation  Martine Beugnet

Cinema and Semiotic   Johannos Ehrat

The Film Encyclopedia  Ephtaim Katz

Essential Cinema Jonathan Rosenbaum

Experimental Cinema  edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon

Bertolt Brecht, Cahiers du Cinema and Contemporary Film Theory   George Lellis

FILM  Gerald Mast

Art in Cinema;  a symposium on the avant-garde film  edited by Frank Stauffacher

Cinema Eye-Cinema Ear  John Russell Taylor

All About Almodovar:  A passion for cinema   Brad Epps  &  Despina Kakeodaki

Film:  A sound Art  Michel Chion

Reinventing Cinema  Chuck Tryon

Francois Truffaut:  Interviews  edited by Ronal Bergan

Film Consciousness:  From Phenomenology to Deleuze  Spencer Shaw

German Expressionist Cinema  Ian Roberts

Francois Truffaut  edited by Paul Duncan, Robert Ingram

A History of the French New Wave  Richard Neupert

Diziga Vertov:  Defining Documentary Film  Jeremy Hicks

Kino Eye Diziga Vertov 

The French New Wave  Naomi Greene

Avant-Garde Film  edited by Alexander Graf & Dietrich Scheunemann

Cinema of Modernity  edited by Murray Pomerance

Essential Deren:  Collected writing on Film by Maya Deren

The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski  Marek  Haltof

Visionary Film:  the American Avant Garde   P.  Adems  Sitney

Melodrama and Modernity:  early sensational cinema & its contexts  Ben Singer

Feminist Film Theory  edited by Sue Thornham

Film Propoganda:  Soviet Russia & Nazi Germany  Richard Taylor

The Cinema of Wim Wenders  edited by Roger Cook & Gered Gumunden

Post Theory-Deconstructing Film Studies  edited by David Bordwell & Noel Carroll

Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order:  Understanding American Avant Garde Cinema  James Peterson

Pier Paolo Pasolini-Contemporary Perspectives edited by Patrick Rumble &  Bart Testa

To Free the Cinema:  Jonas Mekas & the New York Underground

Psychoanalysis and the Cinema  edited by Ann Kaplan

Andy Warhol  Film Factory  edited by Michael O Pray

Tarkovsky:  Cinema as Poetry  Maya Turovskya

Godard; Images, Sounds, Politics  by Colin MacCabe

The Cinema of Luis Bunuel  Peter Graham

The Animated Film  Ralph  Stephenson

The Cinema of Alain Resnais  by Ray Arms

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics:  Structuralism and Post-Structuralism and Beyond

Meaning and Structure:  Structuralism of Post analytic Philosophers  Jaroslov Pergrim

An Introductory guide to Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism  Madan Sarup

Film Studies:  Critical approaches  edited by John Hill & Pamela Church Gibson

The Meaning of Things:  Material Culture and Symbolic Expression  edited by Ian Hodder

Dali, Surrealism, and Cinema  Elliott H.  King

Surrealism and the Cinema  by Michael Gould

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Felix Guattari Gilles Deluze
     
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia ~ Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

Cinema 1:  The Movement-Image  Gilles Deluze

Cinema 2:  The Time Image Gilles Deluze

A Cinema w/o Walls  Corrigan

Film Art  Bordwell & Thompson

Understanding Movies  Giannetti

The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide  Chris Gore

The Piano   Jane Campion

The Fundamentals of Play Directing  Holt, Reinhart, Winston

Theater, Theory, Postmodernism  Birringer

Contact With Drama  Hay & Howell

A Certain Tendency in Hollywood Cinema  Robert Ray

Heretical Empiricism  Pier Palo Posolini

A Certain realism:  The Making of Posolini’s Film Theory and Practice

Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia  Wheeler Winston Dixon

Before You Shot  Helen Garvy

Women and Experimental Filmmaking  Jean  Petrolle and Virginia Wexman

A Super 8 Filmmaker’s Journal:  A Guide to Super 8 Filmmaking in the Age of the Internet  Don Diego Ramirez

Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader  Gwendolyn Audrey and Wheeler Winston Dixon

Underground Film Parker Tyler

Avant-Garde Film  Alexander Graf, Dietrich Scheunemann

Points of Resistance:  Woman Power and Politics of the New York Avant-garde Cinema  1943-71  Lauren Rabinovitz


Art Books

Manifesto of Surrealism  Andre Breton

Dada Manifesto  Tristan Tzara

Surrealist Manifesto  Andre Breton

Art and Artists  Ian Chivers

The Art of the Possible  Dawna Markova

Ideology and the Image  Bill Nichols

The History of Art

Art History in Theory:  An Anthology of Changing Ideas  edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood

Camera Lucida  Roland Barths

Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934 by Man Ray
Man Ray: Photography and Its Double by Alain Sayag and Emmanuelle
De I'Ecotais

The Vein of Gold  Julia Cameron
The Artists Way  Julia Cameron

The Uffizi-  Becocci/Scala

From Caligari to Hitler  Kracauer

The Theater of the Absurd  Martin Esslin

Byzantium  Judith Herrin

From Prague to Paris:  A critique of Structuralist thought  J.G.  Merquior

Art History aesthetics, visual studies  Edited by Michael Ann Holly & Keith Moxey


Dada and Surrealism  David Hopkins

Surrealism, Politics and Culture edited by Raymond Spiteri & Donald La Coss

Andre Breton and the Basic Concepts of Surrealism  by Michel Carrouges
 
Dictionary of Cultural Literacy  edited by James Trefil, Joseph Kett, E.D. Hirsch,

Woman Art and Society  Whitney Chadwick

The Crisis of Political Modernism  Rodowic

The City Reader  Stout Le Gates

Writing:  A College Rhetoric  Kirszner, Mandell




Philosophy Books

The Basic Works of Aristotle

Meditation of First Philosophy  Descartes

Cartesian Meditations:  An Introduction to Phenomenology  Edmund Husserl

The Idea of Phenomenology  Edmund Husserl

Madness and Civilization  Michael Foucault
Discipline and Punish  Michael Foucault

Works of Love Kierkegaard

The Order of Things:  An Archaeology of the Human Sciences  Michel Foucault

Basic Writings of Nietzsche Fredrick Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil  Fredrick Nietzsche

The Will to Power  Fredric Nietzsche

Republic of Plato  Plato

Logic and Disintegration:  Post-Structuralist thought and the Clams of Critical Theory
Artesian Meditations:  An Introduction to Phenomenology

Being and Nothingness  Jean Paul Sartre
No Exit  Jean Paul Sartre
Existentialism and the Human Emotions  Jean Paul Sartre
Transcendence of the Ego jean Paul Sartre
Existentialism is a Humanism  Jean Paul Sartre

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre  Walter Arnold Kaufman

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Felix Guattari Gilles Deluze
     
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia ~ Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

Cinema 1:  The Movement-Image  Gilles Deluze

Cinema 2:  The Time Image Gilles Deluze

Philosophy after postmodernism : civilized values and the scope of knowledge / Paul Crowther


Global Capitalism  Jeffery Frieden

Walden Henry David Thoreau

Self-Reliance  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Masculinity, psychoanalysis, straight queer theory : essays on abjection in literature, mass culture, and film / Calvin Thomas

Intersections between feminist and queer theory / edited by Diane Richardson, Janice McLaughlin and Mark E. Casey

The Social Contract and Discourses  Jean Jacques Rousseau

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason  Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction  Michel Foucault

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis  Felix Guattari

A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction Linda Hutcheon


Causality in Linguistic Theory  Esa Itkonen

The Realm of Numbers  Issac Asamov


Simulations Jean Baudrillard
Cool Memories  Jean Baudrillard

Correspondence  Guy Debord

Nomadology:  The War Machine  Gilles Deleuze

Revolt She Said  Julia Kristeva

Intro To Aristotle  McKeon


Modern Physics  James William Rohif

The Prince  Machiavelli

The Oedipus Cycle Sophocles

Small is Beautiful  E.F.  Schmacher

The Politics of the Very Worst  Paul Virilio

The Politics of Woman’s Bodies  Rose Weitz

Open Society:  Reforming Global Capitalism  George Soros

Novels
Lord of the Flies  William Golding

To Kill a Mockingbird  Harper Lee

Charlottes’ Web  E.B. White

Night  Elie Wiesel

The Lover  Marguerite Duras
Hiroshima Mon Amor  Marguerite Duras
The Malady of Death  Marguerite Duras
The Tropic of Cancer  Henry Miller

The Diary of Anais Nin
Little Birds  Anais Nin
House of Incest  Anais Nin
Spy in the House of Love  Anais Nin
Seduction of the Minotaur  Anais Nin
Four Chambered Heart  Anais Nin
Children of the Albatross  Anais Nin

Age of Innocence  Edith Wharton

Pride and Prejudice     Jane Austin
Sense and Sensibility  Jane Austin

Glass Menagerie  Tennessee Williams

Diary of Anne Frank

The Stranger    Albert Camus
The Plague  Camus
Exile and the Kingdon  Camus

100 years of Solitude  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Tales of Ordinary Madness  Charles Bukowski

The Alchemist  Paulo Coelho

Love  Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon  Toni Morrison
Beloved  Toni Morrison
Jazz  Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye  Toni Morrison
Sula Toni Morrison
Tar Baby  Toni Morrison
Playing in the Dark:  Whiteness and the Literary Imagination  Toni Morrison

I know Why the Caged Bird Sings  Maya Angelou


The Idiot    Fedor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment  Dostoevsky
Notes From the Underground  Dostoevsky

The Name of the Rose  Umberto Eco
Foucault’s Pendulum  Eco

Middle Sex  Jeffery Eugenides

The Thief’s Journal  Jean Genet
Our Lady of the Flowers  Jean Genet


Madam Bovary  Gustavo Flaubert
Sentimental Education  Gustov Flaubert

Howards End  E.M. Forester
A Room with a View  EM Forester

Anna Karenina  Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace  Leo Tolstoy

The Canterbury Tales  Geoffrey Chaucer

Jane Eyre  Charlotte Bronte

White Fang  Jack London

The Scarlet Letter  Nathaniel Hawthorn

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

The Red Badge of Courage  Stephen Crane

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  Mark Twain

Gulliver’s Travels  Jonathan Swift

For Whom the Bells Toll  Ernest Hemingway
Farwell to Arms  Ernest Hemingway
Oldman and the Sea  Ernest Hemingway

The Hunchback of Notre Dame  Victor Hugo

Catch 22  Joseph Heller

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest  Ken Kesey

Satori in Paris  Jack Kerouak
One the Road  Jack Kerouak

The Unbearable Lightness of Being  Milan Kundera
The Joke  Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting  Milan Kundera
Immortality  Milan Kundera
Identity:  A Novel  Milan Kundera
Slowness  Milan Kundera
Ignorance  Milan Kundera
A Terminal Paradox  Milan Kundera

Amos Oz  A Perfect Peace

Hunger  Knut Hamsun

The Crucible  Aurther Miller

Slaughterhouse-Five  Kurt Vonegut

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughs

Paradise Lost  Milton

A Violent Life  Pier Palo Posolini

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

The Waste Land  TS Eliot

She Walks in Beauty  Lord Byron
Don Juan  Lord Byron

The Catcher on the Rye  J.D.  Salinger

Through the Looking Glass  Lewis Carrol

Pride and Prejudice  Jane Austin

A Brief History of Time  Stephen Hawking

Nausa Jean Paul Sartre

Number our Days  Barbara Myerhoff

Night Elie Wiesel

Who are the Macedonians  Hugh Poulton

Kosovo  Noel Malone

The Miracle Worker  William Gibson

The Village  David Mamet
American Woman in a Chinese Hat  Maso

Macedonia and the Macedonians  Andrew Rosses

The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland  Lewis Carrol

Stalin  Alex De Jance

Dracula:  The Prince of Many Faces  Florescu and McNally
The Mind of Adolf Hitler  Walter Langer
Choosing a Jewish Life  Anita Diamant
Essential Judaism  George Robinson

Think and Grow Rich  Napoleon Hill

Growing Through Life  R.  Rapoport

The Arcades Project  Walter Benjamin

Plays
Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead  Tom Stoppard


Merchant of Venice   Shakespeare
Midsummer Nights Dream  Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet  Shakespeare

Waiting for Godot  Samuel Beckett
End Game  Beckett

Tiny Alice  Edward Albee

Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht
The Threepenny Opera  Bertolt Brecht

Antigone  Sophocles

The Cyptogram  David Mamet

Death of a Salesman  Arthur Miller

Oleanna David Mamet

Psychology and Psychoanalysis


A Dance of Anger:  A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships  Harriet Lerner

The Secret  Rhonda Byne

The Golden Bough  James George Frazer

Deepak Chopera:
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire
Reinventing the Body, resurrecting the Soul:  How to Create a New You
The Book of Secrets:  Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your life
The Path to Love:  Spiritual Strategies for Healing
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Perfect Health
Creating Affluence
Quantum Healing:  Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind
The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire


You Can Heal Your Life  Louise L.  Hay

Happiness Now  Robert Holden PhD

Don’t sweat the Small Stuff  Richard Carlson PhD

Relationship Rescue  Phillip C.  McGraw PhD

An Unquiet Mind  Kay Redfield Jamison

Touched With Fire  Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament  Kay Redfirld Jamison

Mans Search for Meaning  Viktor E.  Frankel

Interpretation of Dreams  Sigmund Freud
The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud  Freud
The Ego and the Id  Freud
Civilization and its Discontents  Freud
Sexuality and the Psychology of Love  Freud

Language of the Self :  The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis  Jacques Lacan

The Uses of Enchantment:  The Meaning and Importance of Fairytales  Bruno Bettelheim

The Beauty Myth  Naomi Wolf
Lateral Thinking  Edward de Bono

Emotional Blackmail  Susan Forward  PhD.

Abnormal Psychology  Rosenhan & Seligman

Darkness Visible  A Memoir of Madness  William Styron

The World Within  Sigmund Freud

Self-Hypnotism  Leslie Le Cron

The Road Less Traveled  M.  Scott Peck

How to Win Friends and influence people

Act Like a Lady:  Think like a Man  Steve Harvey

Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman

Other Books
The ‘I’ Ching

The Triathlets Training Bible

The Art of Happiness  Dali Lama

Student Writers at Work and in the Company of Other Writers  Redford

The Best American Poetry 1993

The Road to Mecca  Athol Fugard

The Position of the Body  Richard Stern

On Writing Well  William Zinsser

How to Win Friends and Influence People  Pale Carnegie

Exploring Through Writing  Ann Raimes

The City Reader  Miles, Hall, Borden