Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs — eds. Michele Pierson, David E. James, Paul Arthur (Oxford University Press, 2011)
The central scholarly volume, including Michael Zryd’s “Professor Ken” and Amy Taubin’s interview with Flo Jacobs, “Flo Talks!”
Ken Jacobs: I Walked Into My Shortcomings — ed. William Rose (The Visible Press, in association with Anthology Film Archives, 2026)
The first collection of Jacobs’s writings, interviews, and teaching, with a detailed chronology and complete filmography.
Scott MacDonald — A Critical Cinema 3: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (University of California Press, 1998)
Contains the “Ken and Flo Jacobs” interview.
P. Adams Sitney — Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde (Oxford University Press)
The definitive history of American avant-garde cinema; its account of structural film canonized Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son.
J. Hoberman — essay for the Ken Jacobs Collection, Vol. 1 (Kino Lorber, 2021)
On Jacobs’s formation between Hans Hofmann’s push/pull spatial theories and socialism.