A question about books.

[Alex]

How many film-related books do you own? Currently, despite the large number of books I own, I only have 4 that are connected to the movie world. One is a coffee table book about Ray Harryhausen, and the others are a trio of biographies (Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Bruce Campbell). I'd assume most of the other people here will have more than that. I am not referring to novelisations of movies, or books that have been turned into movies, more ones about the background of films (like Trevor's upcoming book on the South African movie industry).

[Sitting Duck]

I have the Medved Tetralogy as well as Michael Weldon's Psychotronic Duology.

[Newt]

Oh dear.  I can see three shelves of them from my seat here at the computer.  At approximately 25 books per shelf, that's at least 75.  I know I have more hiding here and there that I have been meaning to ferret out and add to the shelving by the movies.  Assuming books of reviews and lists count?  Like the "Creature Features Movie Guide"?

Some of them may be TV-oriented.  One full shelf of Classic Trek.  Lots of Dr Who.  That sort of thing.

[Rev. Powell]

A lot (though not as many as Newt). Probably somewhere in the 20s.

[chefzombie]

we donated most of them to WSU when we moved, but on a guess i'd say we still have at least a dozen.

[ralfy]

Film History by Thompson and Bordwell, Re-viewing Filipino Cinema by Lumbera, Image-Music-Text, Mythologies, The Pleasures of the Text, S/Z: An Essay, Roland Barthes, and Camera Lucida by Barthes, Film: American Influences on Philippine Cinema and Eiga by Tiongson, Escape Velocity by Dery, American Film Critics from the LOA, Giger's Alien, Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 by Deleuze, Readings in Philippine Cinema, Cult Film Experience, The Man Who Saved Britain by Winder, Popular Cinemas of Europe, Cyberspace by Benedikt, The Cinema of Manuel Conde by Tiongson, The Graham Greene Film Reader, Critical Theory Since 1965, Forbidden Knowledge by Shattuck, Travels in Hyperreality by Eco, Kubrick by Herr.

[Rev. Powell]

Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 by Deleuze

I found Deleuze unreadable. Derrida is a model of clarity by comparison. I mean, yeah, I could have tried to process a paragraph a day, but the work to reward ratio makes it not worth it to me.

[lester1/2jr]

The Ed Wood one is my favorite one, followed by Hollywood Talks turkey and I guess Hollywood Babylon

[RCMerchant]

Ho boy- ok...
1. the Marx Bros. Scrapbook
2. the 3 Stooges Scrapbook
3. Psychotronic Video Guide
4. Classics of the Horror Film
5. Films of Boris Karloff
6. Films of Bela Lugosi
7. the Bad Guys
8. Frankenstein- a frame by frame of the entire film.
9. Holllywood Gothic
10. Birth of the American Horror Film
11. the 3 Stooges
12. White Zombie
13. No Traveler Returns- the final years of Bela Lugosi
14. Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film
15. M- An anylasyis of the Peter Lorre film
16. Mad, Bad, and Dangerous- about Mad Doctors in film.
17. Karloff
18. Lugosi-the Man Behind the Cape
19. Lon Chaney Jr
20. the Monster Show
21. Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares
22. Horror Film Stars
23. Tod Browning's Dracula
24. House of Horrors- about Hammer films
25. Lugosi- by scholar Gary Don Rhodes
26. Graven Images
27. A Pictorial History of Horror Films
28. Horror Movies
29. the Fabulous Fantasy Films
30. Dr.Jekyll and Mr Hyde- another frame by frame book.
31. Night of the Living Dead
32. Cinema Fantastic
33. Bela Lugosi In Person
34. Scream Queens
35. Gorehound Guide to Splatter Films
36. Forgotten Horrors
37. Silent Screams
38. the Count
39. Movie Fantastic
40. Horror Films of the 70's Vol. 1 and 2
42. Heros of the Horrors
43. More Classics of the Horror Film
44. Psycho- another frame by frame book.
45. Shlock-0-Rama- the films of Al Adamson
46. Sleaze Creatures
47. To Be Continued- about serials.
48. Keep Watching the Skies- Vol.1 and 2.
49. Splatter Movies of the 60's
50. Silent Film Posters
51. the Illustrated History of Horror Films
52. the Films of Harold Llyod

More lying in closets, under the bed. I dunno.



...and I don't know how many monster movie magazines.

[Alex]

Guess we know what to get Ronnie for xmas (more bookshelves!).

[Trevor]

I am embarrassed to admit that I have ten books on films and filmmakers only 😳

There are two which I assisted on in research and things like that.

https://www.loot.co.za/product/martin-botha-jans-rautenbach/blzs-456-g6a0

https://www.loot.co.za/product/daar-doer-in-die-fliek/jsbk-3449-g310

[Sitting Duck]

The Ed Wood one is my favorite one

Would that be Nightmare of Ecstasy?

[Newt]

Ronny!  Nice collection!