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SUNY Horizons of Cinema Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of SUNY Horizons of Cinema books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the SUNY Horizons of Cinema series? Start with "Cavell on Film (By: Stanley Cavell)" (2005) and follow publication order through all 71 books.
The complete SUNY Horizons of Cinema reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

Cavell on Film (By: Stanley Cavell)
2005

Rebel Without a Cause (By: J. David Slocum)
2005

The Death of Classical Cinema (By: Joe Mcelhaney)
2006

Apocalyptic Dread (By: Kirsten Moana Thompson)
2007

Seoul Searching (By: Frances K. Gateward)
2007

Exile Cinema (By: Michael Atkinson)
2008

Now Playing (By: Paul S. Moore)
2008

Ecology and Popular Film (By: Joseph K. Heumann)
2009

Three Documentary Filmmakers (By: William Rothman)
2009

Second Takes (By: Carolyn Jess-Cooke,Constantine Verevis)
2010

Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination (By: Matthew Solomon)
2011

Hitchcock at the Source (By: David Boyd)
2011

Hitchcock, Second Edition (By: William Rothman)
2012

Native Recognition (By: Joanna Hearne)
2012

Hollywood's New Yorker (By: Marc Raymond)
2013

Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground (By: Steven Rybin)
2014

B Is for Bad Cinema (By: Constantine Verevis)
2014

Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors (By: Dominic Lennard)
2014

Bombay before Bollywood
2015

Binghamton Babylon (By: Scott M. MacDonald)
2015

Ghost Faces (By: David Greven)
2016

Encounters with Godard (By: James S. Williams)
2016

Invented Lives, Imagined Communities (By: R. Barton Palmer)
2016

Doing Time (By: Lee Carruthers)
2016

Looking with Robert Gardner (By: Rebecca Meyers)
2016

Regarding Life (By: Belinda Smaill)
2016

John Huston as Adaptor (By: Wesley King)
2017

Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (By: Steven Sanders)
2017

American Stranger (By: Will Scheibel)
2017

Brechtian Cinemas (By: Nenad Jovanović)
2017

Gestures of Love (By: Steven Rybin)
2017

Passionate Detachments (By: Amy Rust)
2017

Are You Watching Closely? (By: Seth Friedman)
2017

Rx Hollywood (By: Michael DeAngelis)
2018

Queer Art Camp Superstar (By: Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta)
2018

Immanent Frames (By: Mark Cauchi)
2018

Rule, Britannia! (By: R. Barton Palmer)
2018

Welcome to Fear City (By: Nathan Holmes)
2018

Rumble and Crash (By: Milo Sweedler)
2019

From El Dorado to Lost Horizons (By: Ken Windrum)
2019

Sounds Like Helicopters (By: Matthew Lau)
2019

Brute Force (By: Dominic Lennard)
2019

Tuitions and Intuitions (By: William Rothman)
2019

The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939 (By: Michael Hammond)
2019

Slapstick Camera, The (By: Burke Hilsabeck)
2020

Miraculous Realism (By: Niels Niessen)
2020

Funny How? (By: Alex Clayton)
2020

Letters from Hollywood (By: Bill Krohn)
2020

Giallo! (By: Alexia Kannas)
2020

Mind Reeling (By: Homer B Pettey)
2020

A Very Old Machine (By: Sudhir Mahadevan)
2021

Was It Yesterday? (By: Matthew Leggatt)
2021

Race and the Suburbs in American Film (By: Merrill Schleier)
2021

Curtains of Light (By: George Toles)
2021

Perpetual Movement (By: Neil Badmington)
2021

Seeing Symphonically (By: Erica Stein)
2021

Encountering the Impossible (By: Alexander Sergeant)
2021

Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation (By: Brendan Hennessey)
2021

The Holiday in His Eye (By: William Rothman)
2021

The Hard Sell of Paradise (By: Jason Sperb)
2022

Writ on Water (By: Charles Warren)
2022

Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East (By: Nolwenn Mingant)
2022

Action, Action, Action (By: Tom Conley)
2022

The Cinematographer's Voice (By: Roberto Schaefer)
2022

White Cottage, White House (By: Tony Tracy)
2022

No Jurisdiction (By: Fareed Ben-Youssef)
2022

Whiteness at the End of the World (By: David Venditto)
2022

Orienting Italy (By: Mary Ann McDonald Carolan)
2022

Nietzsche in Hollywood (By: )
2022

Cinema of Discontent (By: Tomoyuki Sasaki)
2022

Distancing Representations in Transgender Film (By: Lucy J. Miller)
2023
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