Interested in film but not adaptation? I got a couple books for you! A lot of these books explore history and theories of film.
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Literature Through Film: Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation
Robert Stam
The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring
Peter Snowdon
Ink-Stained Hollywood: The Triumph of American Cinemaâs Trade Press
Eric Hoyt
Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses
Thomas Elsaesser
Cinema 1: The Movement-Image
Gilles Deleuze
Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia (Cambridge Studies in Film)
Vera Dika
Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times
Laura Mulvey
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