{"id":164396,"date":"2020-12-22T07:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=164396"},"modified":"2020-12-22T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:47:45","slug":"the-ten-best-film-books-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=164396","title":{"rendered":"The BFI&#8217;s Ten Best Film Books of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Film Institute has published their list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/sight-and-sound\/lists\/best-film-books-2020\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ten Best Film Books of 2020<\/a>. A rich list, some I&#8217;ve read, some I haven&#8217;t, but now I have a list to base my next purchases off of. <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to everyone whose books made it to the list. My pal Glenn Kenny&#8217;s <i>Made Men<\/i> &#8211; on the making of <i>Goodfellas<\/i> &#8211; was one of my favorite reading experiences of the year. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/41dzC2DetnL._SY445_QL70_ML2_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"445\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-164397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/41dzC2DetnL._SY445_QL70_ML2_.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/41dzC2DetnL._SY445_QL70_ML2_-139x200.jpg 139w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/41dzC2DetnL._SY445_QL70_ML2_-278x400.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/41dzC2DetnL._SY445_QL70_ML2_-69x100.jpg 69w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAlso congratulations to Christina Newland, whose <i>She Found It at the Movies<\/i>, at #3, is a collection of writing by women on &#8220;Sex, Desire, and Cinema&#8221;. I am proud to be included in that collection. I wrote on one of my favorite subjects: I wrote on the eerily prescient supernova-power of teenage-girl fandom. And how you ignore the screams of teenage girls at your peril. Because they predict EVERYTHING. They&#8217;re always there FIRST. <a href=\"https:\/\/redpress.co.uk\/collections\/red-press-bookshop\/products\/she-found-it-at-the-movies?fbclid=IwAR0q9OnVzzeNacHH6Y9Zn2-QkwmG4pBCnh9wQf0b50tzZuNV1-C9I3139ME\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">You can order <i>She Found It at the Movies<\/i> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Film Institute has published their list of the Ten Best Film Books of 2020. A rich list, some I&#8217;ve read, some I haven&#8217;t, but now I have a list to base my next purchases off of. Congratulations to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=164396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,4],"tags":[600,1508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164400,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164396\/revisions\/164400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}