Bibliography of Hollywood

Below are a list of works related to the history of Hollywood, California.

General

 * Balio, Tino. (1993). Hollywood in the New Deal. University of Wisconsin Press.
 * Balio, Tino. (2008). Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939. University of California Press.
 * Basinger, Jeanine. (1999). The Star Machine. Knopf.
 * Basinger, Jeanine. (1991). Silent Stars. Knopf.
 * Biskind, Peter. (1998). Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. Simon & Schuster.
 * Brownlow, Kevin. (1968). The Parade's Gone By. University of California Press.
 * Brownlow, Kevin. (1996). The War, the West, and the Wilderness. Knopf.
 * Caddel, Richard. (2002). Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929-1939. Routledge.
 * Collins, Dana. (2010). Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American. Columbia University Press.
 * Doherty, Thomas. (2013). Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939. Columbia University Press.
 * Elsaesser, T., Horwath, A., & King, N. (Eds.). (2004). The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s. Amsterdam University Press.
 * Escoffier, Jeffrey. (2009). Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Kapra, and Kazan. Columbia University Press.
 * Farber, Stephen. (1972). Hollywood on Hollywood. University of California Press.
 * Froug, William. (1997). The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter. Silman-James Press.
 * Gabler, Neal. (1988). An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. Crown Publishers.
 * Harris, Mark. (2005). Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. Penguin Press.
 * Higham, Charles. (1972). Hollywood Cameramen: Sources of Light. Southern Illinois University Press.
 * Higham, Charles. (1984). Hollywood in the Twenties. A.S. Barnes and Co.
 * Hirschhorn, Clive. (1981). The Warner Bros. Story. Crown Publishers.
 * Hoberman, J. (2017). An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War. The New Press.
 * Kael, Pauline. (1968). Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Little, Brown and Company.
 * King, Geoff. (2001). American Independent Cinema. I.B. Tauris
 * Kobal, John. (1985). People Will Talk. Knopf.
 * Leff, Leonard J. (1990). Gossip, The Untrivial Pursuit. Charles Scribner's Sons.
 * Leff, Leonard J., and Jerold L. Simmons. (2001). The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s. Grove Press.
 * Nystrom, Christina. (2018). Hollywood's East: Orientalism in Film. Indiana University Press.
 * Schatz, Thomas. (1981). The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
 * Schatz, Thomas. (1988). Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System. McGraw-Hill.
 * Schatz, Thomas. (2001). The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. Henry Holt and Company.
 * Schickel, Richard. (1991). Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity. Anchor Books.
 * Sklar, Robert. (1994). Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies. Vintage.
 * Thomson, David. (2004). The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. Alfred A. Knopf.
 * Whitfield, Eileen. (1991). Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky.
 * Wood, Michael. (1990). America in the Movies or "Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind". Basic Books.
 * Wood, Robin. (1986). Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan. Columbia University Press.

Biographical

 * Dardis, Tom. (1989). Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock. University Press of Kentucky.
 * Eyman, Scott. (1997). Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer. Simon & Schuster.
 * Eyman, Scott. (2005). Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford. Simon & Schuster.
 * Eyman, Scott. (2010). Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille. Simon & Schuster.
 * Gabler, Neal. (2006). Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. Vintage.
 * Gabler, Neal. (2007). Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity. Vintage.
 * Hirsch, Foster. (2010). The Boys from Syracuse: The Shubert Brothers' Story. University Press of Kentucky.
 * LoBrutto, Vincent. (1997). Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. Donald I. Fine.
 * McBride, Joseph. (1997). Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success. Simon & Schuster.
 * McBride, Joseph. (2008). Steven Spielberg: A Biography. University Press of Kentucky.
 * McGilligan, Patrick. (1991). Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age. University of California Press.
 * McGilligan, Patrick. (2015). George Cukor: A Double Life. St. Martin's Press.
 * Neale, Steve. (2000). Genre and Hollywood. Routledge.
 * Schickel, Richard. (1985). D.W. Griffith: An American Life. Simon & Schuster.
 * Silet, Charles L. P. (2010). The Films of Josef von Sternberg. McFarland
 * Sinyard, Neil. (1986). The Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Cambridge University Press.
 * Sklar, Robert. (1994). City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield. Princeton University Press.
 * Spoto, Donald. (1992). The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures. Hopkinson and Blake
 * Stenn, David. (1992). Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild. Cooper Square Press.
 * Stenn, David. (2001). Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow. Cooper Square Press.
 * Thomas, Bob. (1988). Thalberg: Life and Legend. G.P. Putnam's Sons.
 * Thomas, Tony. (1992). Howard Hawks, the Grey Fox of Hollywood. Grove Press.

Studios

 * Balio, Tino. (1996). United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry. University of Wisconsin Press.
 * Eames, John Douglas. (1991). The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years. Crown Publishers.
 * Friedwald, Will. (2010). The Warner Bros. Cartoons. Oxford University Press.
 * Gomery, Douglas. (2005). The Hollywood Studio System: A History. St. Martin's Press.