Start with high-confidence film direction & production books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
James Cameron's Titanic
James Cameron, Ed W. Marsh
How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000
Bret Stern
Kazan on Directing
Elia Kazan
The Green Screen Handbook
Jeff Foster
Thinking Like a Director
Michael Bloom
Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos
Barry Hampe
Shot in Oklahoma
John Wooley
Production Culture
John Thornton Caldwell
As You Wish
Cary Elwes, Joe Layden
A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever
Rob Reiner
Blade Runner 2049 - Interlinked - the Art
Tanya Lapointe
Star Trek: First Contact: the Making of the Classic Film
Joe Fordham
The Cinema of Michael Powell
Ian Christie, Andrew Moor
Notes on Directing
Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
The Making of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Jay Glennie, Quentin Tarantino
Downton Abbey: the Grand Finale
Emma Marriott
