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A Robin Wood Bibliography
Robin Wood
Compiled by D. K. Holm and others [to be named as they contribute]
10/2005
ooks
Hitchcock's Films
A. S. Barnes and Co., New York, with A. Zwemmer Ltd., London, 1965, 193 pages.
Robin Wood's first book on Hitchcock, which covers the director's work through Marnie.
Howard Hawks
Doubleday and Co., New York, in conjunction with Sight and Sound and the British Film Institute, London, 1968, 200 pages.
The first edition of Wood's book on Hawks. It is No. 7 in a BFI series that held various names and came out from numerous publishers; in this case, the overall series is called Cinema World.
Ingmar Bergman
Praeger, New York, 1969, 192 pages.
Arthur Penn
Praeger, New York, 1969, 144 pages.
Hitchcock's Films
A. S. Barnes and Co., New York, with A. Zwemmer Ltd., London, second enlarged edition, 1969, 204 pages, ISBN 498 07418 8.
This is the second version of Wood's seminal book on Hitchcock, with the addition of a chapter on Torn Curtain.
Hitchcock's Films
Paperback Library, New York, September, 1970, 223 pages.
Antonioni, Revised Edition, Ian Cameron and Robin Wood
Praeger, New York, 1971, 152 pages.
Claude Chabrol, Michael Walker and Robin Wood
Praeger, New York, 1970, 144 pages.
The Apu Trilogy
Praeger, New York, 1971, 96 pages.
Personal Views: Explorations in Film
Gordon Fraser, London, 1976, 255 pages, ISBN 0 900406 64 X.
Eleven essays by Wood gathered together from diverse sources. The essays on Jacques Tourneur and Mizoguchi are revised and expanded versions of essays that appeared in Film Comment; the Welles essay appeared in Positif. Others grew out of lectures. A detailed account of the provenance of the other essays will be added to this bibliography as information develops.
Hitchcock's Films: Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged
A. S. Barnes and Co., South Brunswick and New York, with The Tantivy Press, London, 1977, 174 pages, ISBN 0 498 01749 4.
The third installment of Wood's first book on Hitchcock. The most visible change or addition is a new opening chapter called "Retrospective," that both updates the book through Hitchcock's final films (Topaz, Frenzy, and Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot), but also unveils Wood's then most recent thinking on the value of the director's work as a whole. It is here, too, in the opening paragraph, that Wood revealed that he had written the auto-critique of Wood's work called "Lost in the Wood" in Film Comment under the pseudonym (rather obvious, in retrospect) George Kaplan.
The American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film, edited by Robin Wood and Richard Lippe
Festival of Festivals, Toronto, 1979, 100 pages.
Howard Hawks
BFI Publishing, London, 1981, 216 pages, ISBN 0 85170 111 6.
The second edition of Wood's book on Hawks. Though there may be modest, silent changes to the text (Wood says that he has left the main body of the text as originally published), the chief difference is a final 15-page chapter called "Retrospect."
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan
Columbia University Press, New York, 1986, 328 pages, ISBN 0 231 05776 8.
An important anthology of Wood's essays from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. Among the subjects are American horror films, Brian De Palma, The Chase,Robert Altman, Cimino, Scorsese, Romero, Cohen, and, most crucially, the "incoherent text." Sources for the original essays, in many cases expanded, revised, or collated from multiple essays, include Film Comment, Canadian Forum,, Mosaic, and Movie. With this book Wood forged a productive association with Columbia University Press, which would issue (as of now) four more books by Wood. A detailed account of the provenance of other changes will be added to this bibliography as information develops.
Hitchcock's Films Revisited
Columbia University Press, New York, 1989, 395 pages, ISBN 0 231 06550 7.
A major revision of Wood's important book on Hitchcock. Among the new elements are a new acknowledgements page, an introduction (dated 1988), new to this edition, and eight new essays, forming the "rvisited" half of the book. Those not new for the book come from Film Comment, American Film, and CineACTION!. A detailed account of the provenance of the other essays will be added to this bibliography as information develops.
Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: ollywood and Beyond
Columbia University Press, New York, 1998, 352 pages, ISBN 0 231 07605 3.
An important new collection of essays, mostly derived from CineACTION!, but with one from Film Quarterly. Subjects include Renoir, Ozu, Leo McCarey, Gaslight Letter from an Unknown Woman, Mizoguchi, Persona, Mandingo, Rivette, Murnau, and Greg Araki. A detailed account of the provenance of other changes will be added to this bibliography as information develops.
The Wings of the Dove: Henry James in the 1990s
BFI Publishing, London, 1999, 96 pages, ISBN 0 85170 734 3.
A monograph for the BFI's Modern Classics series.Hitchcock's Films Revisited, Revised Edition
Columbia University Press, New York, 2002, 413 pages, ISBN 0 231 12695 6.
A second revision of Wood's already heavily revised book on Hitchcock. Most obvious among the new elements is fascinating, autobiographical preface to the revised edition, and a concluding essay on Marnie from CineACTION!. A detailed account of the provenance of other changes will be added to this bibliography as information develops.
Rio Bravo
BFI Publishing, London, 2003, 88 pages, ISBN 0 85170 966 4.
A second monograph, this one for the BFI's Film Classics series.Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan … And Beyond: Expanded and Revised Edition
Columbia University Press, New York, 2003, 363 pages, ISBN 0 231 12967 X.
New elements of this revision include a detailed and autobiographical prologue and essays on Day of the Dead, My Best Friend's Wedding, teen films, Fincher, and Jarmusch (the "Beyond" section), mostly derived from CineACTION!. A detailed account of the provenance of other changes will be added to this bibliography as information develops.
Howard Hawks: New Edition
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2006, 210 pages, ISBN 0 8143 3276 5.
A second reprint of Wood's book, with a new introduction by Wood and a forward by series editor Barry Keith Grant.Personal Views: Explorations in Film
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2006, 210 pages, ISBN 0 8143 3278 1.
A reprint of Wood's collection of essays, but published for the first time in the United States. This edition adds three other Wood essays ("Notes for a Reading of I Walked with a Zombie," "Creativity and Evaluation: Two Film Noirs of the Fifties," and "Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic"), a new introduction by the author, and a forward by series editor Barry Keith Grant.Ingmar Bergman
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, year to come, pages to come, ISBN to come.
A reprint of Wood's Movie book on the Swedish director. According to Wood in the new edition to his Hawks book, the new version of the Bergman book will be half again as long as the previous edition. Presumably this book, too, will have a new introduction by the author, and a forward by series editor Barry Keith Grant.Michael Haneke
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, year to come, pages to come, ISBN to come.
Announced as Wood's next book.
agazines (and websites) with contributions by Robin Wood.
ewspapers with contributions by Robin Wood.
etters by Robin Wood to publications.
ooks and anthologies with contributions by Robin Wood.
n Wood: book reviews, essays, references.
ontents of Wood-Influenced Magazines (Movie, CineACTION!).
hantom Citations: works attributed to Robin Wood currently of uncertain veracity.
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