| The Filmmaker’s Handbook | Steven Ascher & Edward Pincus |
| Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting | Robert McKee |
| On Directing Film | David Mamet |
| The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style | Christopher Riley |
| In the Blink of an Eye | Walter Murch |
| The Name of This Book is Dogme95 | Richard Kelly |
| Rebel without a Crew | Robert Rodriguez |
| The Reel Truth: Everything You Didn’t Know You Need to Know about Making an Independent Film | Reed Martin |
| Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies that Matter | Christine Vachon with David Edelstein |
| Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Peter Biskind |
| Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of the Independent Film | Peter Biskind |
| Poetics | Aristotle |
| True Fiction Pictures & Possible Films | Hal Hartley |
| Selling Your Film without Selling Your Soul | The Film Collaboration, Jon Reiss, and Sheri Candler |
| The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories | Frank Rose |
| The New Biographical Dictionary of Film | David Thomson |
| Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood | Mark Harris |
| For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies | Pauline Kael |
| Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert, 40 Years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews | Roger Ebert |
| The JAWS Log, 30th Anniversary Edition | Carl Gottlieb |
| Picture | Lillian Ross |
| Making Movies | Sidney Lumet |
| A Cinema of Loneliness | Robert Kokler |
| Roger Ebert’s Book of Film | Roger Ebert |
| The Age of Movies: Selected Writings | Pauline Kael |
| The Movie Brats | Michael Pye & Lynda Myles |
| The American Cinema | Andrew Sarris |
