Introductions
Boggs, Joseph. The Art of Watching Films, 4th ed.
Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. Film Art, 5th ed.
Harrington, John. Rhetoric of Film
Kawin, Bruce. How Movies Work
Monaco, James. How to Read a Film, rev. ed.
Histories
Bordwell, Staiger, and Thompson. The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Bordwell and Thompson. Film History: an Introduction
Cook, David. A History of Narrative Film, 2nd ed.
Maltby and Graven. Hollywood Cinema
Mast, Gerald. A Short History of Film, 4th ed.
Theory
Mast, Gerald, Marshall Cohen, and Leo Braudy, eds. Film Theory and Criticism, 4th ed.
Nichols, Bill, ed. Movies and Methods, vol 2.
Rosen, Philip. Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: a Film Theory Reader
Also
Auiler, Dan, ed., Hitchock's Notebooks
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space
Barsacq, Leon. Caligari's Cabinet and Other Grand Illusions: a History of Film Design
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing
Braudy, Leo, and Morris Dickstein, eds. Great Film Directors
Brosnan, John. Movie Magic: the Story of Special Effects, revised
Carringer, Robert. The Making of Citizen Kane
Eidsvik, Charles. Cineliteracy
Gross, Lynne S., and Larry W. Ward. Electronic Moviemaking
Harrington, John, ed. Film and/as Literature
Hollander, Anne. Moving Pictures and Seeing through Clothes
Kalinak, Kathryn. Settling the Score
May, Larry. Screening Out the Past
Reisz. Karel, and Gavin Millar. Technique of Film Editing
Root, Wells. Writing the Script
Salamon, Julie. The Devil's Candy
Schatz, Thomas. Hollywood Genres
Sitney, P. Adams. Visionary Film, 2nd ed.
Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America, rev. ed.
Sontag, Susan. On Photography.
Weis and Belton, eds. Film Sound: Theory and Practice
Wills, Garry. John Wayne's America
A few films about movies (or photographic/visual perception)
Sunset Boulevard
Living in Oblivion
Singin' in the Rain
Silent Movie
Day for Night
Sullivan's Travels
The Last Command
Rear Window
Blow Up
8 1/2
Sherlock, Junior
The Cameraman