My Favorite Film and Media Books – Part I | Nebula Plus

Part 1 of a tour of the film, media theory, and art criticism books that have informed my perspective over the years. Part 2 coming next month.

Related video: "Regarding the Pain of Others"

Books Mentioned in Part 1:

Amusing Ourselves to Death — Neil Postman (1985)

The Medium Is the Message: An Inventory of Effects — Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore

Directing the Documentary — Michael Rabiger

The Wire: Truth Be Told – Rafael Alvarez

Regarding the Pain of Others — Susan Sontag

Ways of Seeing — John Berger

Landscapes: John Berger on Art — John Berger

Portraits: John Berger on Artists — John Berger

Film Art: An Introduction — David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson

Film Form — Sergei Eisenstein

Film Studies: The Key Concepts — Susan Hayward

Simulacra and Simulation — Jean Baudrillard

Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism — ed. Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons & Timotheus Vermeulen

Say Hello to Metamodernism — Greg Dember

The Disaster Artist — Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell

Sonny Boy — Al Pacino

Catching the Big Fish — David Lynch

An Editor's Burial — (New Yorker articles that inspired Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch)

In the Blink of an Eye — Walter Murch