Film History and Criticism

Scholarly analyses and histories of particular films, actors, directors etc. may be found in a number of different sources.

To find specific types of resources, see:

• Finding Books and Dissertations
• Finding Scholarly Articles
• Selected Websites for Film History and Criticism

See also Social and Other Aspects of Cinema and Film Genres and Themes for guidance on specialized subject searches.

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Film History and Criticism Bibliographies

You can save yourself considerable work by looking at existing bibliographies, which list books and articles on a particular subject (up to a certain date).

• Motion pictures--Bibliography
  Motion pictures and literature--Bibliography
  Motion pictures--Poland--Bibliography
  Folklore in motion pictures--Bibliography
  Motion pictures--Canada--Reviews--Bibliography
  Motion picture industry--Canada--Bibliography
  Motion pictures--Reviews--Bibliography
  Motion pictures--History--Sources--Bibliography
  Motion picture plays--Adaptations--Bibliography
  War films--United States--Bibliography
  Motion pictures--Periodicals--Bibliography
  Blacks in the motion picture industry--Bibliography
  Realism in motion pictures--Bibliography
  African Americans in motion pictures--Bibliography
  African American motion picture actors and actresses--Bibliography
  Women in motion pictures--Bibliography
  Women in the motion picture industry--Bibliography
  Documentary films--United States--Bibliography

• Motion pictures--Aesthetics
• Motion pictures--Semiotics
• Film criticism
• Film criticism--Philosophy
• Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
• Realism in motion pictures
• Postmodernism
• Deconstruction

Chronicle of the cinema. Directed by Catherine Legrand; editor-in-chief Robyn Karney. (London ; New York : Dorling Kindersley, c1997.)

SML, Stacks, LC PN1993.5 A1 +C468 1997

 

Guide to American cinema, 1930-1965. Thomas Whissen. (Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, c1998.)

SML, Starr Main Reference Rm PN1993.5 U6 W46X 1998