COLE SMITH

Film Director - Screenwriter

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2025

The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anna Karenina (1878)
Leo Tolstoy

Happy Ever After (1859)
Leo Tolstoy

Three Questions (1885)
Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
Leo Tolstoy

The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
Leo Tolstoy

The Idiot (1869)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment (1866)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Photoplay (1916)
Hugo Münsterberg

Night Games (1926)
Arthur Schnitzler

Fräulein Else (1924)
Arthur Schnitzler

A Confirmed Bachelor (1917)
Arthur Schnitzler

The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
Edgar Allen Poe

The Colour Out of Space (1927)
H. P. Lovecraft

The Rats in the Walls (1924)
H. P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror (1929)
H. P. Lovecraft

The Dreams in the Witch-House (1933)
H. P. Lovecraft

The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
H. P. Lovecraft

The Thing on the Doorstep (1937)
H. P. Lovecraft

A Ghost Story (1819)
E. T. A. Hoffmann

The Boarded Window (1891)
Ambrose Bierce

The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891)
Ambrose Bierce

The House and the Brain (1845)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Madam Crowl's Ghost (1871)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)
H. P. Lovecraft

Basic Freud (2001)
Michael Kahn

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (1917)
Sigmund Freud

Notes from the Underground (1864)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My Cousin Rachel (1951)
Daphne du Maurier

Civilization and its Discontents (1930)
Sigmund Freud

The Birds (1952)
Daphne du Maurier

Jamaica Inn (1936)
Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca (1938)
Daphne du Maurier

The Chaos Machine (2022)
Max Fisher

Old Lady Mary (1884)
Margaret Oliphant

The Open Door (1881)
Margaret Oliphant

Introducing Semiotics (1997)
Paul Cobley

Night (1956)
Elie Wiesel

The Rhetorical Situation (1968)
Lloyd F. Bitzer

Nexus (2024)
Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus (2016)
Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens (2014)
Yuval Noah Harari

The Alchemist (1988)
Paulo Coelho

Chariots of the Gods? (1968)
Erich von Däniken

A Beleaguered City (1879)
Margaret Oliphant

Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911)
Wassily Kandinsky

The Entail (1885)
E.T.A. Hoffmann

The War of Art (2002)
Steven Pressfield

Poetics (335 BCE)
Aristotle

The Petty Demon (1907)
Fyodor Sologub

Stanislavsky Directs (1954)
Nikolai M. Gorchakov

Owning Your Own Shadow (1991)
Robert A. Johnson

Inner Work (1986)
Robert A. Johnson

Nausea (1938)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Bobok (1873)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

White Nights (1848)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Anthony Burgess

Dream Story (1926)
Arthur Schnitzler

An Actor Prepares (1936)
Konstantin Stanislavski

St. Mawr (1925)
D.H. Lawrence

On Directing Film (1991)
David Mamet

Sun of China (2002)
Cixin Liu

Mountain (2006)
Cixin Liu

The Wandering Earth (2000)
Cixin Liu

The Last Answer (1980)
Isaac Asimov

The Last Question (1956)
Isaac Asimov

Green Tea (1872)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Existentialism is a Humanism (1946)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Create Dangerously (1957)
Albert Camus

Kubrick: An Odyssey (2024)
Robert P. Kolker & Nathan Abrams

In the Blink of an Eye (1992)
Walter Murch

The Virgin and the Gipsy (1930)
D.H. Lawrence

Film Acting (1933)
V.I. Pudovkin

Film Technique (1929)
V.I. Pudovkin



2024

Writing for the Cut (2019)
Greg Loftin

Save the Cat (2005)
Blake Snyder

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
Sigmund Freud

The Room in the Dragon Volant (1872)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Psycho-Cybernetics (1960)
Maxwell Maltz

The Stranger Child (1816)
E. T. A. Hoffmann

The "Uncanny" (1919)
Sigmund Freud

The Eternal Husband (1870)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Plague (1947)
Albert Camus

The Psychology of C.G. Jung (1969)
Jolande Jacobi

The Stranger (1942)
Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Albert Camus

Think (1999)
Simon Blackburn

Death's End (2010)
Cixin Liu

The Dark Forest (2008)
Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem (2006)
Cixin Liu

Carmilla (1872)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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