American Films and Film Industry Pathfinder

 

SCOPE

Selected library resources relating to American film and the American film industry

 

KEY SUBJECT HEADINGS

  • Motion picture industry
  • Motion pictures–United States
  • Motion picture industry-United States
  • Motion pictures-United States-history
  • Motion pictures producers and directors
  • Motion picture music
  • Feature films
  • Documentary films
  • Musical films
  • Silent films

KEY REFERENCE SOURCES

R 791.4308 B675b               Blacks in American films and television : an encyclopedia

R 791.4309 H673                 History of the American cinema (6 volumes)

R 791.4 I61 (current year)    International motion picture almanac


SELECTED TITLES
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791.43 E93a
American silent film
William K. Everson / Oxford University Press, 1978.

344.0531 D321b
Banned films : movies, censors, and the First Amendment
Edward de Grazia and Roger K. Newman / Bowker, 1982

MEDIA 791.4309 B336
The battle over Citizen Kane [viderorecording]
WGBH Educational Foundation, c1996.

MEDIA 791.437 A512e
The edge of Hollywood [viderorecording]
Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1994.

791.4309 W863e
Ethnic and racial images in American film and television
Allen L. Woll / Garland, 1987.

MEDIA 791.437 A512fi
Film in the television age [viderorecording]
Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1994

791.4309 R659f
From peep show to palace : the birth of American film
David Robinson / Columbia University Press, c1996.

791.4309 H349f 1987
From reverence to rape : the treatment of women in the movies
Molly Haskell / Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987.

791.4309 D263g
The glamour factory : inside Hollywood's big studio system
Ronald L. Davis / Southern Methodist University Press, 1993.

MEDIA 791.437 A512fn
Film noir [viderorecording]
Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1994

791.43658 T675h
History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past
Robert Brent Toplin / University of Illinois Press, c1996.

MEDIA 791.4309 L257
Landmarks of early film [viderorecording]
Image Entertainment, c1994.

791.43617 S579L
Laughing hysterically : American screen comedy of the 1950s
Ed Sikov / Columbia University Press, c1994.

791.43658 D286r
Reel patriotism : the movies and World War I
Leslie Midkiff / Univ. of Wisconsin Press, c1997.

791.43 F823s
Script girls : women screenwriters in Hollywood
Lizzie Francke / British Film Institute, 1994.

MEDIA 791.437 A512s
The star [viderorecording]
Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1994

MEDIA 791.437 A512st
The studio system [viderorecording]
Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1994

791.4309 C891t
Terror and everyday life : singular moments in the history of the horror film
Jonathan Lake Crane / Sage Publications, c1994.


PERIODICALS

  • Film Comment
  • Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (ProQuest Direct)
  • Journal of Popular Film & Television (ProQuest Direct)
  • Premiere
PERIODICAL INDEXES
  • Proquest Direct
  • New York Times Index
  • Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

SELECTED WEB SITES

Film and Film Studies http://www.highline.edu/library/ref/LINKS/FILM.HTM

Film Genres   http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html

Media History, Studies and Education http://omnibus-eye.rtvf.nwu.edu/links/studies.html#top

Early Motion Pictures - 1897-1916  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/papr/mpixhome.html

Full-text Articles and Essays on Film Noir  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Noirtext.html


DEWEY NUMBERS

SELECTED ORGANIZATIONS 


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