Social and Other Aspects of Cinema
This page contains a selection of Orbis search subject headings
on different social aspects of motion pictures. Also included
are links to websites specific to topics such as women in cinema,
gender, race & ethnicity in film.
On This Page:
- Selected Subject Headings for Searching Orbis
- Selected Bibliographies on Social Aspects of Film
- Selected Web Sites
See Also:
- Filmographies
- Industry Information
- Film History and Criticism
- Film Genres and Themes
- Biographical Information
Selected Subject Headings for Searching Orbis
Aspects of Films and FilmmakingBooks and journals on social and cultural aspects of cinema, and/or its relationship to other topics.
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Topics as Represented in FilmsBooks and documentaries about a topic in motion pictures. (Sometimes these headings are also used for fiction films, though this is not strictly "by the book.")
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Bibliographies on Social Aspects of Film
- African American films through 1959: a comprehensive, illustrated filmography. Larry Richards. (Jefferson, N.C.; London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c1998.)
- SML, Reference PN1995.9 N4 R54X 1998
- The American Indian in film. Hilger, Michael. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1986.)
- SML, Reference PN1995.9 I48 H54 1986
- The bent lens: a world guide to gay & lesbian film. Edited by Claire Jackson and Peter Tapp. (St Kilda, Vic.: Australian Catalogue Company, 1997.)
- SML, Reference PN1995.9 H55 B38 1997
- Black and Third cinema: film and TV bibliography. Chris Vieler-Porter. (London: British Film Institute, c1991.)
- SML, Reference Z5784 B56 +V54 1991
- Blacks in black and white: a source book on Black films. Sampson, Henry T. Edition: 2nd ed. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, c1995.)
- SML, Reference PN1995.9 N4 S2 1995
- Blacks in film and television: a Pan-African bibliography of films, filmmakers, and performers. Compiled by John Gray. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.)
- SML, Reference Z5784 M9 G72 1990
- Encyclopedic dictionary of women in early American films, 1895-1930. Denise Lowe. (New York: Haworth Press, 2005.)
- SML, Reference PN1998.2 .L686X 2005
- Films for, by, and about women. Sullivan, Kaye. (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980.)
- CCL PN1995.9 W6 S95
- Images of American Indians on film: an annotated bibliography. Gretchen M. Bataille and Charles L.P. Silet. (New York: Garland, 1985.)
- SML, Reference Z5784 M9 B388 1985
- Midnight Ramble
- African Americans in motion pictures.
Selected Web Sites
- African Americans in the Movies: A Bibliography (UC-Berkeley)
- African-Americans in Motion Pictures
- A research guide connected to a 1999 exhibit at Long island University.
- Black Film Center/Archive (Indiana University)
- A repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans. Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience.
- Black Film Research Online (University of Chicago)
- A resource guide covering the works of Black filmmakers from across the African Diaspora; the production, distribution, and exhibition of films by, for and about Blacks; issues of Black spectatorship and reception; and images of Black people in film from the invention of the medium in the late 19th century to the present.
- Cinenova On-line
- Organization for the cultural and artistic advancement of women in film, video and new media arts.
- Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Media (University of Iowa)
- Metasite of collected links includes: African American, Asian American, Latin American, LesBiGay, Native American and other Indigenous Peoples, Advertising, Cyberspace, Television and Film, and Print media links.
- MoviesByWomen
- An outgrowth of the 50/50 Women Filmmaker's Summit, site includes information on historical women directors, statistics on women directors, and director interviews.
- PlanetOut
- A website dedicated to gay and lesbian film.
- QCinema
- A directory of resources on queer cinema.
- SAWNET: South Asian Women's Cinema
- Profiles South Asian women filmmakers, their works, reviews, and other films related to South Asian women's topics.
- Scary Women
- This Web site is the outgrowth of a symposium that was held at UCLA in January of 1994. "Scary Women" was sponsored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive Research and Study Center, with the support of UCLA's Center for the Study of Women and the Academy Foundation, and organized by Andrea Kalas, then Assistant Manager of the UCLA Film and Television Archive Research and Study Center.
- Separate Cinema Archive
- An archive dedicated to the art and fascinating history of the African-Americans in film. The archive of over 25,000 posters, lobby cards, stills and assorted ephemera spans the past century of important and historic black cinema.
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- The Spielberg Archive is the world's largest collection of Jewish/Israeli documentary material. This includes extensive holdings covering Israel, both before and after the establishment of the State, the Holocaust and Jewish communities abroad throughout the century. The archive is digitizing films and making them accessible online.
- Third World Newsreel
- Founded in 1967, Third World Newsreel is one of the oldest alternative media arts organizations in the United States. Focuses on the creation and appreciation of independent and social issue media by and about people of color, and the peoples of developing countries around the world.
- Women in Cinema: A Reference Guide
- Created and maintained by Philip McEldowney, University of Virginia. Reference guide for the study of women in film. Includes bibliographies, anthologies and collections, biographical sources, reviews and filmographies, and electronic sources. Not updated but useful.
- Women Make Movies
- The largest distributor of women's media in North America. Includes links to research resources on women in film and video.
- Women's
Studies Database: Film Reviews (University of Maryland)
