Good Will Hunting Miramax Films ; produced by Lawrence Bender ; written by Ben Affleck & Matt Damon ; directed by Gus Van Sant.

Good Will Hunting Miramax Films ; produced by Lawrence Bender ; written by Ben Affleck & Matt Damon ; directed by Gus Van Sant.

My own private Idaho / Fine Line Features presents ; produced by Laurie Parker ; written and directed by Gus Van Sant.

Gay directors, gay films? : Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters / Emanuel Levy. by Levy, Emanuel, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Pedro Almodóvar: Spain's enfant terrible -- Terence Davies: subjective memoirist -- Todd Haynes: deconstructive queer cinema -- Gus van Sant: poet of lost and alienated youth -- John Waters: queer as trash and camp -- Conclusion: gay directors "who's looking at whom and how".…”
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Promised land / Focus Features presents ; in association with Participant Media and Image Nation Abu Dhabi ; a Sunday Night, Pearl Street, Media Farm production ; a Gus Van Sant film produced by Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Chris Moore ; screenplay by John Krasinski & Matt Damon ; directed by Gus Van Sant. by Elfman, Danny

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Elephant / HBO Films presents in association with Fine Line Features a Meno Film and Blue Relief production ; produced by Dany Wolf ; written and directed by Gus Van Sant.

Milk / Focus Features presents Axon Films in association with Groundswell Productions ; Jinks/Cohen Company ; produced by Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Michael London ; written by Dustin Lance Black ; directed by Gus Van Sant.

American independent cinema : rites of passage and the crisis image / Anna Backman Rogers. by Backman Rogers, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Adolescence: Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) -- Adolescence: Gus Van Sant's Elephant (2003) -- Death: Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1994) -- Death: Gus Van Sant's Last Days (2004) -- Life-crisis: Sofia Coppola's Somewhere (2011) -- Life-crisis: Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (2005) -- Conclusion: the crisis image - mumblecore and beyond.…”

Projections : a forum for film-makers.

Table of Contents: “…John Boorman -- Jonathan Demme -- Nestor Almendros -- River Phoenix -- Gus Van Sant -- Hall Hartley -- Michael Mann -- 2. Robert Altman -- George Miller -- Jaco van Dormael -- Alison Maclean -- Derek Jarman -- Gus Van Sant -- Willem Dafoe -- Sydney Gillat -- Tim Robbins -- Bertrand Tavernier -- 3. …”

Realism of the senses in world cinema : the experience of physical reality / Tiago de Luca. by De Luca, Tiago

Table of Contents: “…Carlos Reygadas: cinema of the impossible -- Tsai Ming-liang: cinema of bodies -- Gus Van Sant and visionary realism.…”

The multisensory film experience : a cognitive model of experiential film aesthetics / Luis Rocha Antunes. by Antunes, Luis Rocha

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Michael Grabowski; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Multisensory Film Experience, Experiential Film Aesthetics, Cinema and the Senses ; Chapter 2: The Vestibular in Film: Orientation and Balance in Gus Van Sant's Cinema of Walking; Chapter 3: Nociception in Film: A Cinematic Account of Ki-Duk Kim's Aesthetics of Pain; Chapter 4: Thermoception in Film: Knut Erik Jensen's Experiential Aesthetics of Cold; Chapter 5: Conclusion; Bibliography; Filmography; Back Cover.…”
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Rewriting indie cinema : improvisation, psychodrama, and the screenplay / J.J. Murphy. by Murphy, J. J., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Across the spectrum: from improvisation to psychodrama -- And I hate actors: the new American cinema -- Let's not phony it up anymore: the films of John Cassavetes -- Place-based realism: Mackenzie, Loden, and Burnett -- Experiments in psychodrama: Mekas, Warhol, Clarke, and Mailer -- Human life isn't necessarily well-written: the films of William Greaves: symbiopsychotaxiplasm: take one and take 2 1/2 -- Beyond the method: Abel Ferrara and Harvey Keitel -- Tied to a machine: the films of Gus Van Sant -- Like how you talk: the films of Joe Swanberg -- Improvisation and place: Putty Hill, Stand clear of the closing doors, and the films of Sean Baker -- Rediscovering psychodrama: Frownland, Heaven knows what, and Stinking heaven -- The line between reality and staging: Actor Martinez, Actress, and The witness -- Conclusion: blending fiction and documentary.…”

Multisensory film experience : a cognitive model of experiental film aesthetics / Luis Rocha Antunes. by Antunes, Luis Rocha

Music, Sound and Filmmakers : Sonic Style in Cinema. by Wierzbicki, James

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Sonic Style in Cinema; Chapter 2 Music, Sound, and Silence in the Films of Ingmar Bergman; Chapter 3 Andrey Tarkovsky: The Refrain of the Sonic Fingerprint; Chapter 4 "It's All Really Happening": Sonic Shaping in the Films of Wes Anderson; Chapter 5 Kieślowski's Musique concrète; Chapter 6 Gus Van Sant's Soundwalks and Audio-visual Musique concrète; Chapter 7 Blowin' in the Wind: Music and Meaning in the Coen Brothers' Films.…”
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The story of film : an odyssey / The British Film Institute, Film4 and Hopscotch Films present ; a Hopscotch Films production ; written, photographed, and directed by Mark Cousins ; producer, John Archer.

Studying American independent cinema / by Rona Murray. by Murray, Rona

Table of Contents: “….: Hollywood, Hollywood, Fabulous Hollywood -- Doors of Perception: Gus Van Sant's Last Days -- Minnesota Nice: The Coens and the Comedy of Menace -- 'Stupid Americans': Why Happiness Could Only be an Independent Film -- The American Wilderness and and Ecstatic Truth: Adapting Independent Voices -- Marketing Originality and Indiewood: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- Making an Epic and Staying Independent: There Will Be Blood -- Future Directions: Time to Press the Panic Button?…”

Music, sound and filmmakers : sonic style in cinema / edited by James Wierzbicki.

Table of Contents: “…Broman -- Andrey Tarkovsky : the refrain of the sonic fingerprint / Elizabeth Fairweather -- "It's all really happening" : sonic shaping in the films of Wes Anderson / Ben Winters -- Kieślowski's musique concrète / Joseph G. Kickasola -- Gus Van Sant's soundwalks and audio-visual musique concrète / Danijela Kulezic-Wilson -- Blowin' in the wind : music and meaning in the Coen Brothers' films / Matthew McDonald -- Sound and uncertainty in the horror films of the Lewton Unit / Michael Lee -- Conducting the composer : David O. …”

The feel-bad film / Nikolaj Lübecker. by Lübecker, Nikolaj d'Origny

Out at the movies : a history of gay cinema / Steven Paul Davies ; foreword by Simon Callow. by Davies, Steven Paul

Almost Shakespeare : reinventing his works for cinema and television / edited by James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner.

Table of Contents: “…: imitation as originality in Gus van Sant's My own private Idaho / Andrew Barnaby -- Shakespeare transposed : the British stage on the post-colonial screen / Parmita Kapadia -- Suture, Shakespeare, and race, or, What is our cultural debt to the bard? …”