The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats: An A-Z of Felines On Screen

New from A24, The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats features over 1,000 cat appearances in the movies, captured in almost 2,000 film stills.

Cats have always found their way onto our screens. They act as pets, villains and accomplices, travel on spaceships, wear human clothes, inherit large sums of money and drink spilled blood to morph into cat-woman hybrids. They can inhabit so many roles, the only limit to their movie credits is a director’s imagination.  

The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats takes in household names such as Puss in Boots to Mr. Bigglesworth, to unnamed alley cats and scaredy cats that streak across the screen. Listing in A to Z enables you to look up famous felines such as Holly Golightly’s orange tabby and Jones from the Alien movies, encounter Bastet’s messengers and witch familiars, and meet the real-life cat actors with IMDbs of their own. 

The alphabetised entries run from Abby Barnes’ Cat in The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) to Zip-A-Tone Kitten in Zip-Tone-Cat-Tune (1972). The Encyclopedia also contains original essays on Bad Omen Cats, Cat Lady Cats, Talking Cats and more, as well as highlighted entries on feline filmographies and notable cats throughout cinema.