Start with high-confidence film guides & reviews books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
James Cameron's Titanic
James Cameron, Ed W. Marsh
Adventures in a TV Nation
Michael Moore, Kathleen Glynn
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken
Daniel Mendelsohn
A Chronology of Film
Ian Haydn Smith
Your Favorite Scary Movie
Ashley Cullins
Shot in Oklahoma
John Wooley
Magnolia
Paul Thomas Anderson
Adaptation
Charlie Kaufman, Robert McKee
Little Children
Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
In the Scene
Jen Francis, Cheryl Robson
The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Jay Glennie, Quentin Tarantino
Downton Abbey: the Grand Finale
Emma Marriott
