Figures of Motion: Len Lye / Selected Writings, 1983 (Len Lye Foundation, NZ)

The German Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s, Goethe Institute - Travelling exhibition catalogue, including Fischinger, Richter, Eggling, Ruttman, Reiniger, etc., 1989

Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art, Robert Russett and Cecile Starr, 2nd Edition, 1989

Norman McLaren on the Creative Process, , National Film Board of Canada booklet with video, 1991

Norman McLaren: Manipulator of Movement, Valliere Richard, 1982

Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer, Peter Hames (editor) 1995

Raoul Servais: A Painter-Filmmaker's Journey, Moins & Temmerman, 1999

American Magus: Harry Smith -- A Modern Alchemist, Ed: P. Igliori, 1996

Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation, Giannalberto Bendazzi, 1996

A Reader in Animation Studies, Jayne Pilling (editor), 1997

Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics, Maureen Furniss, 1998

Books by John Halas (UK): The Contemporary Animator, 1990; Art in Movement: New Directions in Animation, 1970 (with Roger Manvell); Masters of Animation, 1987 (BBC - expands on TV series); The Technique of Film Animation, 1959 (with Roger Manvell), Timing for Animation, 1981 (with Harold Whitaker)

Animation: A Guide to Animated Film Techniques, Roger Noake UK, 1988

The Encyclopedia of Animation Techniques, Richard Taylor, 1996

Cartoon Capers: The Adventures of Canadian Animators, Karen Mazurkewich, 1999

The Art of the Animated Image: an anthology, Charles Solomon (editor) AFI, 1993 includes "Fine Art Animation" by Cecile Starr

Frames: Drawings and Statements by Independent Animators, compiled by George Griffin, 1978

Z is for Zagreb, Ronald Hollaway, 1972

Abstract Film and Beyond, Malcom Le Grice, 1977

Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avant-Garde Cinema, James Peterson, 1994

Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943-1978 (2nd Ed), P. Adams Sitney, 1979 (covers Harry Smith, Jordan Belson, Robert Breer, etc.)

Film as Subversive Art, Amos Vogel, 1974

Experimental Cinema, David Curtis, 1971

Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change,  Vivian Sobchack, (editor), 2000.

By Sergi Eisenstein: Film Form, 1949; The Film Sense, 1947; and Eisenstein on Disney, 1940s, published 1986

Motion - Motion: Kinetic Art, Jim Jenkins and Dave Quick, 1989

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing, Walter Murch, 1995

The Computer Artist's Handbook, Lillian Schwartz, 1992

The Art of Making Dances, Doris Humphrey, 1959

Inspirational: Making Light of It, James Broughton 1992; Film at Wit's End, Stan Brakage, 1989; Dance: Rituals of Experience, Jamake Highwater, 3rd ed, 1992 ; Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in Canada, Mike Hoolboom, 1997.

The Animated Film Collector's Guide, David Kilmer, 1997

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