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THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB
SYLLABUS
BOOKS THAT SHAPED US
Asian Cult Cinema by Thomas Weisser
Cult Flicks & Trash Picks by Videohound
Golden Turkey Awards Harry Medved and Michael Medved
The Psychotronic Video Guide by Michael J. Weldon
Rebel without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
Roger Ebert
Leonard Maltin
CRITICISM
Essential Cinema: by Jonathan Rosenbaum
The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris
Hitchcock by Truffaut
Vulgar Modernism by J. Hoberman
Hollywood From Vietnam to Reagan by Robin Wood
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
BIOGRAPHY
A Kim Jon-Il Production by Paul Fischer
The Ghastly One by Jimmy McDonough
Roger Corman by Beverly Gray
Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey
My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin
Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Paul Cronin and Herzog
This Is Orson Welles by Peter Bogdonavich and Jonathan Rosenbaum
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood Book by Cari Beauchamp
Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film by Robert Sitton
HISTORY
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
Final Cut: The Making of Heaven’s Gate
The Other Hollywood by Legs Mcneil and Jennifer Osborne
The Devil’s Candy by Julie Salomon
The Parade Goes By by Kevin Brownlow
Picture by Lillian Ross
STUDIES
Hong Kong Action Cinema by Bey Logan
American Nightmare by Stephen Thrower
Seagology by Vern
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visibly, by Linda Williams
A Thousand Cuts by Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph
They Came From Within by Caelum Vatnsdal
From Reverence to Rape by Molly Haskell
Empire of the B’s (Book on Empire Films) by Dave Jay (Author), Torsten Dewi (Author), Nathan Shumate (Author)
Bleeding Skull: An 80’s Trash Film Odyssey by Joseph A. Ziemba & Dan Budnik
Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement by B. Ruby Rich
HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT BOOKS WE DIDN’T READ UNTIL MUCH LATER
Cult Cinema by Danny Peary
The Criticism of Pauline Kael
Negative Space by Manny Farber
Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell
Cahiers du Cinema; Godard on Godard
Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
The Japanese Cinema by Donald Ritchie
MAGAZINES
Shock Cinema
Cinemascope
Sight and Sound
Film Comment
Cinema Sewer
Projections (Edited by John Boorman)
The Eclectic Screening Room
NOVELS
Throat Sprockets by Tim Lucas
Flicker by Theodore Roszak
Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
FRENCH ONLY BOOKS
Dictionnaire du Cinéma by Jacques Lourcelles
Bonjour Mr. Lewis by Robert Benayoun
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