Hi, I'm new here and I'll try to contribute with things that I know.
I'm actually reading "Days of the camera" of Nestor Almendros. I just have read the half of the book and I could say that is a great book because he talks about how he started doing films and he explains each one of the movies that he had done. He talks a lot about directors, producers and different ways of doing films (french one and north american).
I hope this will help someone.
Daniel.