Start with high-confidence film history books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Hollywood Fashion
Nancy J. Hajeski
Éric Rohmer
Antoine de Baecque, Noël Herpe
Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema
Gayatri Devi, Najat Rahman
The Big Picture
Ben Fritz
Scream With Me
Eleanor Johnson, Andi Arndt
Artificial Generation
Christina Parker-Flynn
The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Jay Glennie, Quentin Tarantino