Screen Classics Books in Order
Screen Classics contains 34 books, published between 1982 and 2025. The first book is Hawks on Hawks (1982) and the newest is June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 34
- Published
- 1982–2025
- Pages on record
- 384 in 1 of 34 books
Screen Classics is a film-history series of biographies and critical studies, one filmmaker or performer per volume. Hawks on Hawks (1982) opens the listing, and later titles cover Preston Sturges, Claude Rains, Hal Ashby, Billy Wilder, Hedy Lamarr, Busby Berkeley, Jack Nicholson and Carl Theodor Dreyer. Alfred Hitchcock, film censorship and criticism of American and British cinema appear among the listed subjects. 34 volumes are catalogued between 1982 and 2025 at a median of 384 pages, the newest a study of the silent-film figure June Mathis.
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How many Screen Classics books are there?
Screen Classics has 34 books, released between 1982 and 2025.
Screen Classics Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 34 Screen Classics books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of November 2026.
- 1Hawks on Hawks1982 · confirmed 1/41982–1/4
- 2Intrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies1985 · confirmed 1/41985–1/4
- 3Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 4Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 5Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 6Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 7Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 8Jack Nicholson: The Early Years2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 9Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 10My Life as a Mankiewicz: An Insider's Journey Through Hollywood2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 11Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 12John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 13Ann Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 14Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 15Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense: The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 16Bruce Dern: A Memoir2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 17Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 18Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 19Hitchcock Lost & Found: The Forgotten Films2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 20Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 21Hollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on Screen2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 22Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story2015 · confirmed 1/42015–1/4
- 23Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 24Ridley Scott: A Biography2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 25Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 26Hitchcock and the Censors2019 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420193841/4
- 27Conversations with Legendary Television Stars: Interviews from the First Fifty Years2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 28Film's First Family: The Untold Story of the Costellos2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 29Lewis Milestone: Life and Films2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 30Mean...Moody...Magnificent!2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 31Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 32Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 33The Herridge Style: The Life and Work of a Television Revolutionary2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
- 34June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Where to start with Screen Classics
Start with Hawks on Hawks (1982), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Screen Classics book?
June Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary (2025) is the newest Screen Classics book released so far.
Is there a new Screen Classics book coming?
No next Screen Classics book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Screen Classics at a glance
- Still running
- Screen Classics is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Screen Classics books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 384 pages across the 1 of 34 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Screen Classics books, 25 of 34, were published in the 2010s.
- Attribution
- Of the 34 titles, 4 are credited to Robert David Crane, 3 to Eve Golden, 2 to Christina Rice and 1 to Joseph McBride. A further 31 writers are credited. 2 titles carry no credit.
When Screen Classics books were published
Publication distribution by decade, showing when Screen Classics titles appeared. 2010s was the most productive decade with 25 titles.
34 books total across 4 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.
What the Screen Classics books are about
1 of the 34 Screen Classics books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Censorship 1 of 1 books
- Criticism and interpretation 1 of 1 books
- Hitchcock, alfred, 1899-1980 1 of 1 books
- Motion pictures 1 of 1 books
- Motion pictures, censorship 1 of 1 books
- Motion pictures, great britain 1 of 1 books
- Motion pictures, united states 1 of 1 books
- Television broadcasting, united states 1 of 1 books