| Performing authorship: self-inscription and corporeality in the cinema C Sayad Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 | 92 | 2013 |
| Found-footage horror and the frame's undoing C Sayad Cinema Journal 55 (2), 43-66, 2016 | 73 | 2016 |
| Film criticism in the digital age G Taylor, D McNeil, G Manzoli, P Noto, M San Filippo, N Tsika, ... Rutgers University Press, 2015 | 41 | 2015 |
| New Documentaries in Latin America V Navarro, JC Rodríguez Springer, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| The auteur as fool: Bakhtin, Barthes, and the screen performances of Woody Allen and Jean-Luc Godard C Sayad Journal of Film and Video 63 (4), 21-34, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| O jogo da reinvencao: Charlie Kaufman e o lugar do autor no cinema C Sayad Alameda, 2008 | 15 | 2008 |
| Flesh for the author: Filmic presence in the documentaries of Eduardo Coutinho C Sayad Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 51 (1), 134-150, 2010 | 13 | 2010 |
| 1. Thumbs in the Crowd: Artists and Audiences in the Postvanguard World M Frey, C Sayad, G Taylor, D McNeil Film criticism in the digital age, 23-40, 2015 | 10 | 2015 |
| The Stand‐up Auteur C Sayad A Companion to Woody Allen, 13-34, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre C Sayad Oxford University Press, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Cecilia Sayad, eds. 2015 M Frey Film Criticism in the Digital Age, 0 | 5 | |
| Variations on the Author C Sayad Film Quarterly 69 (3), 12-18, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
| Critics through authors: Dialogues, similarities, and the sense of a crisis C Sayad Rutgers University Press, 2015 | 3 | 2015 |
| Narrative, Visibility, and Trauma in Bus 174 C Sayad New Documentaries in Latin America, 91-105, 2014 | 3 | 2014 |
| Do critics need authors? C Sayad | 3 | 2014 |
| A Matter of (Informed) Taste C Sayad Film Criticism 40 (1), 2016 | 1 | 2016 |
| Self-staging auteurs in search of a cinema: Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen and Eduardo Coutinho C Sayad New York University, 2007 | 1 | 2007 |
| Signal-intrusion videos: lessons from analogue horror C Sayad | | 2024 |
| Ways of Listening and Looking C Sayad Second Sight Films, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Reality TV, ghosts and the index C Sayad Screen 60 (4), 587-605, 2019 | | 2019 |
