BFI Film Classics is a 56-book series with 56 released primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Colin McArthur, Peter Wollen, Edward Buscombe, Salman Rushdie, Laura Mulvey, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Melvyn Bragg, J. Hoberman, David Thomson, نیکا خمسی, Anne Billson, Scott Bukatman, David Robinson, Michael Eaton, Colin MacCabe, Lucy Fischer, Camille Paglia, Richard Dyer, Marita Sturken, Na Na, Anton Kaes, Simon Callow, Ed Guerrero, Gayatri Chatterjee, Charles Barr, Greil Marcus, Murray Smith, Michel Chion, Robin Wood, Anupama Chopra, Manohla Dargis, Mark Kermode, Ryan Gilbey, Robert C. Bird, S.S. Prawer, Joshua Clover, J.M. Tyree, Ben Walters, Benjamin A. Hervey, Michael Berry, Andrew Shail, Robin Stoate, Andrew Pulver, Amy Sargeant, Kevin Jackson, Andrew M. Butler, Mark Bould, Andrew Osmond, Roger Luckhurst, Kim Newman, Michelle Le Blanc, Colin Odell, Tony Rayns, and Peter Kramer.