Fifty Key American Films

John White is teacher of Film, English and Media at Parkside Community College and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He is co-author of AS Film Studies: The Essential Introduction, A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction, and co-editor of Fifty Key British Films, also published by Routledge.Sabine Haenni teaches Film and American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York 1880-1920 and has published widely on popular theatre, early cinema and realist fiction.

• Birth of a Nation (1915); Sherlock Jr (1924); Sunrise (1927); The Wild Party (1929); Applause (1929); Scarface (1932); Freaks (1932); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); It Happened One Night (1934); Modern Times (1936); Gone With the Wind (1939); Stagecoach (1939); His Girl Friday (1940); Citizen Kane (1941) Robert Shail; Cat People (1942); Casablanca (1942); Double Indemnity (1944); Mildred Pierce (1945); Gun Crazy (1949); Singin’ in the Rain (1952); On the Waterfront (1954); Rebel without a Cause (1955); The Searchers (1956); Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956); Psycho (1960); The Misfits (1961); The West Side Story (1961); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Night of the Living Dead (1968); The Wild Bunch (1969); Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971); The Godfather (1972); Chinatown (1974); Taxi Driver (1976); Killer of Sheep (1977); Star Wars (1977); Apocalypse Now (1979); Blade Runner (1982); Blue Velvet (1982); Aliens (1986); sex, lies, and videotape (1989); Do the Right Thing (1989); Thelma and Louise (1991); Daughters of the Dust (1991); Short Cuts (1993); Pulp Fiction (1994); Dead Man (1995); Se7en (1995); The Incredibles (2004); Brokeback Mountain (2005)

'Fifty Key American Films is a book full of good, well-crafter writing about cinema' - MEA