We recently came across a list of open access film e-books at the website Film Studies for Free – books on this list deal with a wide range of topics, time periods, and national cinemas. Included are several classic titles (such as Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari To Hitler: a Psychological History of the German Film and Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema) as well as more recent titles.

Film Studies for Free, the blog where this list is hosted, also points to fascinating free resources around the web for learning more about a diverse range of topics in cinema studies – including open-access journals and articles, podcasts, video lectures and essays, and much more. The site is maintained by Catherine Grant of the University of Sussex.