General works on science fiction

Bould, Mark et al, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (London: Routledge, 2009).

Broderick, Damien, Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction (London: Routledge, 1995).

Bukatman, Scott, Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993).

Clark, Stephen, How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1995).

James, Edward and Farah Mendlesohn (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Jameson, Fredric, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (New York: Verso, 2005).

Latham, Rod (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Roberts, Adam, Science Fiction (London: Routedge, 2000).

Roberts, Robin, A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993).

Rose, Mark, Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fiction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981).

Suvin, Darko, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979).

General works on adaptation

Hutcheon, Linda, A Theory of Adaptation (London: Routledge, 2013).

Leitch, Thomas, Film Adaptation and its Discontents (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

MacCabe, Colin, Kathleen Murray and Rick Warner (eds), True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Sanders, Julie, Adaptation and Appropriation (London: Routledge, 2006).

Stam, Robert, Literature Through Film: Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).

Telotte, J. P. and Gerald Duchovnay (eds), Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptation (London: Routledge, 2012).

Works on La Planète des singes/Planet of the Apes

Bishop, Rebecca, '"Several Exceptional Forms of Primates": Simian Cinema', Science Fiction Studies 35.2 (2008), pp. 238-250.

Fordham, Joe and Jeff Bond, Planet of the Apes: The Evolution of the Legend, London: Titan, 2014.

Greene, Eric, Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture, Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1998.

Henderson, Phil, 'The Sun Never Set on the Human Empire: Haunts of Humanism in the Planet of the Apes Films', in The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television, ed. by Curtis D. Carbonell, Michael Hauskeller and Thomas D. Philbeck, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, pp. 321-329.

Lindner, Oliver, '"An Entirely Different and New Story": A Case Study of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes', in Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation: Literature, Film and the Arts, ed. by Pascal Niklas and Oliver Lindner, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012, pp. 117-131.

Lloyd, Christopher, 'Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle to the Present', in The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures, ed. by Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011, pp. 185-199.

McHugh, Susan Bridget, 'Horses in Blackface: Visualizing Race as Species Difference in Planet of the Apes', South Atlantic Review 65.2 (2000), pp. 40-72.

Porter, Laurence, M., 'Text of Anxiety, Text of Desire: Boulle's Planète des singes as Popular Culture', The French Review 68.4 (1995), pp. 704-714.

Vint, Sherryl, 'Simians, Subjectivity and Sociality: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Two Versions of Planet of the Apes', Science Fiction Film and Television 2.2 (2009), pp. 225-250.

Works on Godard and Truffaut

Darke, Chris, Alphaville, London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.

Ezquenazi, Jean-Pierre, Godard et la société française des années 1960, Paris: Armand Colin, 2004.

Guigue, Arnaud, Truffaut & Godard: La querelle des images, Paris: CNRS, 2014.

Holmes, Diana and Robert Ingram, François Truffaut, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998.

Le Berre, Carole, François Truffaut au travail, Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 2004.

Silverman, Kaja and Harun Farocki, Speaking about Godard, New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Works on Luc Besson

Buckland, Warren, 'Video Pleasure and Narrative Cinema: Luc Besson's The Fifth Element and Video Game Logic', in Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam, ed. by john Fullerton and Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Sydney: John Libbey, 2000, pp. 159-164.

Cousins, Jennie, 'Flesh and Fabric: The Five Elements of Jean-Paul Gaultier's Costume Design in Luc Besson's Le Cinquième Élément', Studies in French Cinema 8.1 (2008), pp. 75-88.

Hayward, Susan, Luc Besson, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998.

Hayward, Susan, 'Besson's Mission Elastoplast: Le Cinquième Élément', in French Cinema in the 1990s: Continuity and Difference, ed. by Phil Powrie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 246-257.

Hayward, Susan, 'Luc Besson's Le Cinquième Élément and the Spectacular: The City-Body and the Sci-Fi Movie', in The Seeing Century: Film, Vision and Identity, ed. by Wendy Everett, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000, pp. 136-146.

Hayward, Susan and Phil Powrie (eds), The Films of Luc Besson: Master of Spectacle, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006.

Ott, Brian L. and Eric Aoki, 'Counter Imagination as Interpretive Practice: Futuristic Fantasy and The Fifth Element', Women's Studies in Communication 27.2 (2004), pp. 149-176.

Works on bande dessinée

Baron-Carvais, Annie, La Bande dessinée, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994.

Forsdick, Charles, Laurence Grove and Libbie McQuillan (eds), The Francophone Bande Dessinée, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.

François, Virginie, La Bande dessinée, Paris: Scala, 2005.

Groensteen, Thierry (ed.), Bande dessinée: Récit et modernité, Paris: Futuropolis, 1988.

Groensteen, Thierry, La Bande dessinée: Une littérature graphique, Toulouse: Milan, 2005.

Grove, Laurence, Comics in French: The European Bande dessinée in Context, New York: Berghahn, 2010.

Lacassin, Francis, Pour un neuvième art: La bande dessinée, Geneva: Slatkine, 1982.

Masson, Pierre, Lire la bande dessinée, Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1985.

Miller, Ann, Reading Bande dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-Language Comic Strip, Bristol: Intellect, 2007.

Moliterni, Claude, Philippe Mellot and Laurent Turpin (eds), L'Abécédaire de la bande dessinée, Paris: Flammarion, 2002.

Peeters, Benoît, Case, planche, récit: Lire une bande dessinée, Tournai: Casterman, 1998.

On Renaissance and film animation

Ciment, Gilles, 'Entretien avec Christian Volckman: Faire l'expérience de soi-même', Positif 541 (March 2006), pp. 27-31.

Hdajioannou, Markos, 'How does the Digital Matter? Envisioning Corporeality through Christian Volckman's Renaissance', Studies in French Cinema 8.2 (2008), pp. 123-136.

Osmond, Andrew, 'Step into the Mask', Sight & Sound 16.8 (August 2006), pp. 34-38.

Wells, Paul, Animation: Genre and Authorship, London: Wallflower, 2002.