James Monaco - Bibliography

The New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette. Why these five directors came to influence a generation of filmmakers. Includes film-by-film discussions of their work. Oxford University Press, 1976, 372 pp.

How To Read A Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia. A comprehensive overview of the history of movies and how the electronic media have changed the way we perceive the world and ourselves. Oxford University Press, 1977, 1981, 2000. 672 pp.

Celebrity. Ed. Illuminates the star-making machinery to show how and why celebrities are made and how personalities and personas merge. With "special guests": Nora Ephron, Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, Ingmar Bergman, Norman Mailer, Wilfrid Sheed, Donald Barthelme, Garrison Keillor. Dell, 1978, 258 pp.

Media Culture. Ed. A twentieth-century American culture "reader" presenting close-ups of the people and products that create mass culture. From the early days of radio to People magazine. Dell, 1978, 335 pp.

Alain Resnais. A film-by-film survey of the brilliant French director, including Resnais's unrealized projects or "non-films." Oxford University Press, 1978, 234 pp.

American Film Now: The People, The Power, The Money, The Movies. Landmark examination of the financial, political, and artistic complexities of movies. Oxford University Press, 1979. New York Zoetrope, updated edition 1984, 560 pp.

Who's Who in American Film Now. Ed. Credits for more than 11,000 artistic and technical personnel in thirteen categories, culled from BASELINE's databases. Updated Edition. New York Zoetrope, 1981, updated edition 1987, 389 pp.

The French Revolutionary Calendar. Includes illustrated commentary on the French Revolution. New York Zoetrope, 1982.

The Connoisseur's Guide to the Movies. The 1,450 most significant movies in the world, ranked and rated. Facts on File Publications, 1985, 313 pp.

The International Encyclopedia of Film. Ed. Critical bios for more than 3,000 stars and filmmakers by BASELINE's editors. Putnam and Virgin, 1991, 596 pp.

The Movie Guide. Ed. "A comprehensive listing of the most important films ever made" selected from BASELINE's databases. Putnam and Virgin, 1992, 1994, 1099 pp.

Cinemania: Interactive Movie Guide. Contributor. The first multimedia guide to film and a landmark CD-ROM. Microsoft. 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 650 Mb.

The Dictionary of New Media: The New Digital World of Video, Audio, and Print.. Harbor Electronic Publishing. 1999, 288 pp.

How To Read a Film: Multimedia Edition. DVD-ROM. Includes the full text of four books, more than a thousand illustrations, 130 film clips, interviews, interactive labs, and more. Harbor Electronic Publishing. 2000, 4 GB.