Foster Hirsch is the author of 16 books on subjects related to theatre and film.^[1] A native of California, Hirsch received his B.A. from Stanford University and holds M.F.A, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.^[2] Hirsch joined the English department of Brooklyn College in 1967, and in 1973 became one of the first professors to join the school's newly established film department.^[3] He has also been associated with the Pine Bluff Film Festival since its inception in 1994.^[4]

• 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)
• Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023)

• Brooklyn College
• Pine Bluff Film Festival
• Foster Hirsch - author website