Sources

The library. Books, essays and interviews, each with a note on what it is actually good for and which claims here rest on it.

• Biskind — Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (1998) The New Hollywood chronicle: how the directors briefly took over the studios, told through interviews and gossip.
• Bordwell & Thompson — Film Art The standard textbook. Where this wiki's definitions default to when nothing fancier is needed.
• Burstyn — Lessons in Becoming Myself (2006) Ellen Burstyn's memoir: the Alice collaboration from the side of the star who commissioned it.
• Criterion — At Home in the World The Criterion release essay on Alice: production history, the prologue fight, and the film's place in 1974.
• Durgnat — A Long Hard Look at Psycho (2002) A shot-by-shot, scene-by-scene reading of the whole film. The model for what a maximal close reading looks like.
• Ebert — Alice review (1974) A first-run review: what a sympathetic 1974-75 critic saw before the film had a reputation.
• Mulvey — Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) The essay that named the male gaze. Sixteen pages that reorganised film theory.
• Rebello — Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (1990) The production history. Where nearly every behind-the-scenes claim about Psycho should be checked.
• Scorsese on Scorsese (1989) The director's own account, film by film, assembled from interviews. Intention straight from the source — with the usual caveats.
• Truffaut — Hitchcock (1966) The book-length interview. Hitchcock's own theory of directing the audience, in his own words.