Selected Books
- The Hollywood Epic (1979)
- Film Noir: The Dark Side of the Screen (Da Capo Press, 1983)
- A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio (W. W. Norton, 1984)
- Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
- Acting Hollywood Style (Harry N. Abrams, 1991)
- Film as Film by V.F. Perkins (1972), new introduction by Foster Hirsch (Da Capo, 1993)
- The Boys from Syracuse: The Shuberts' Theatrical Empire Southern Illinois University Press, 1998
- Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir (Limelight Editions, 1999)
- Love, Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen (Da Capo Press, 2001)
- Kurt Weill - On Stage: From Berlin to Broadway (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
- Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King (2007)
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