I. NOVELS

80 Years of Best Sellers, 1895-1975. Alice Payne Hackett and James Henry Burke. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1977.
SML, Reference Z1033 B3 H33 1977

America in Fiction: An Annotated List of Novels that Interpret Aspects of Life in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Otis Welton Coan. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1967.
SML Stacks X410 F967C (Yale Class)

Bibliography of American Fiction, 1919-1988. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman. New York: Facts on File, 1991.
SML, Reference Z1231 F4 +B47X 1991

Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978-
SML, Reference PN451 +D53

Separately edited volumes of commissioned biographical-bibliographical-critical essays that trace the careers of selected authors, critics, screenwriters, journalists, scholars, and publishers. Most volumes are organized around a genre, group, or type of writer within a historical period of a national literature. Relevant volumes for this course:

• Afro-American Writers before the Harlem Renaissance, vol 50
• Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940, vol 51
• Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955, vol 76
• American Novelists, 1910-1945, vol 9
• American Realists and Naturalists, vol 12
• American Writers for Children, 1900-1960, vol 22

Facts on File Bibliography of American fiction, 1866-1918. Ed. James Nagel, Gwen Nagel, Judith S. Baughman. New York: Facts on File, 1993.
SML, Reference Z1231 F4 +B46X 1993

Novels in English by Women, 1891-1920: A Preliminary Checklist. Janet Grimes. New York: Garland, 1981.
SML, Reference Z2013.5 W6 +G75

See Research Guide to Literature in English,

II. DIARIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, & PERSONAL NARRATIVES

American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals. Laura Arsksey Detroit: Gale, 1983. 2 vols.
SML Reference Z5305 U5 +A74 1983

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Typescript interviews from the Federal Writers' Folklore Project offering the recollections of Americans from many walks of life.

And So to Bed: A Bibliography of Diaries Published in English. Patricia Pate Havlice. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1987.
SML, Reference Z5301 H38 1987

A Bibliography of American Autobiographies. Comp. Louis Kaplan. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1961.
SML, Reference Z1224 K36

The Published Diaries and Letters of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Joyce D. Goodfriend. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987.
SML, Reference Z5305 U5 G66 1987

Through a Woman's I: An Annotated Bibliography of American Women's Autobiographical Writings, 1946-1976. Patricia K. Addis. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1983.
SML, Reference Z7963 B6 A32 1983

Women's Diaries, Journals, and Letters: An Annotated Bibliography. Cheryl Cline. New York: Garland, 1989.
SML, Reference Z7963 B6 C55 1989

III. FILMS

The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. Ed. Kenneth W. Munden. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1971- .
SML, Reference PN1998 +A43

Indexes include chronology of titles; personal names; companies; subjects; genres; series; geographic shooting locations; productions filmed in foreign languages; songwriters and composers; literary and dramatic source credits.

Film Index International. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1993- .
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

Cast lists, summaries, and citations to articles about 90,000 films and 30,000 persons, 1930-present. Search the database by Film title, or Personality. Each search result includes at list of references (a bibliography of articles). Press F4 to retrieve the references.

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

The IMDB covers over 95,000 movies with over 1,300,000 filmography entries. It offers filmographies for all professions in the industry; plot summaries; character names; movie ratings; year of release; running times; movie trivia; quotes; goofs; soundtracks; personal trivia; alternative names; certificates; color information; country of production; genres; production companies; distributors; special effects companies; sound mix; reference literature; filming locations; sequel/remake information; release dates; advertising tag lines; detailed technical data; alternative versions; laserdisc availability; languages; reviews; links to official studio pages, fan pages, image and multimedia archives; direct purchase links for movies and associated merchandise; box office grosses and Academy Award information.

*ORBIS: Most of the films held in the Yale University Film Study Center are in Orbis, the online catalog of Yale University Libraries. A few searching tips:

Films by a particular director or starring a particular person, etc.
K= [subject] and film.loc.
e.g., k=chaplin charlie and film.loc. (11 entries; use last name first)

Films produced in a particular year (call number searching)
CO = videovhs [year]
e.g., CO = videovhs 1933 (lists Yale holdings of films produced in 1933)

*See Research Guide to Film Studies

IV. INDEXES For contemporary reviews and commentary.

Book Review Digest. New York: HW Wilson, 1905-
SML, Reference, Index Case Z12 19 B66

Cites and provides excerpts from reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books. An abstract of the book is also provided. Reviews are from approximately 100 leading periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. The online version covers the years 1983 to the present and is updated monthly.

Film Review Index. Ed. Patricia King Hanson. Phoenix: Oryx, 1986.
SML, Reference Z5784 M9 +F554

Two volume comprehensive index of movie reviews from 1882 through 1985. Consult this for a good listing of reviews and short articles. Title index only.

Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899: With Supplementary Indexing, 1900-1922. Edited by Helen Grant Cushing and Adah V. Morris. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1944. 2 v.
SML, Reference, Index Cases, AI3 R43

Provides author and title indexing for the contents of 51 periodicals, both English and (primarily) American.



Periodicals Contents Index. Chadwyck-Healey.
Available online through the Library Research Workstation

PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. PCI Web currently indexes nearly nine six million articles in 2,139 journals. Every year, it adds records for more than one million articles. It will grow to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million individual articles.

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. (1802-1907). Rev. ed. Gloucester: P. Smith, 1963. 7 vol.
SML, Reference, Index Cases, AI3 P656 1963

An index to articles covering a wide-range of subjects and reviews appearing in 479 periodicals published in America and the United Kingdom between 1802 and 1907. Arranged alphabetically by subject of article only. Names of writers of articles are indexed in Cumulative Author Index for Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906 which is shelved next to this title.

The New York Times Index. New York: New York Times Co., 1851-
SML, Reference, Index Cases, 1851-1945
SML, Microtexts Center, 1946-present

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1905-. v.1- (1900/04)- Semi-monthly with quarterly and annual cumulations.
SML, Reference AI1 R43

An index to U.S. periodicals of broad, general, and popular character, chosen to provide a well-balanced selection of popular, non-technical magazines representing all important scientific and humanistic fields. Currently indexes about 174 U.S. popular titles.

V. SECONDARY SOURCES For scholarly and critical literature.

America: History and Life. v.0 (1954/63)-10(1973). Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1964-.
Reference, Index Case Z1236 +A43
CD-ROM Reference Center (Workstation 3) in the nave of SML

Available online through the Library Research Workstation, Experimental Projects, note password

The primary index to the literature of American and Canadian History, covering over 2,000 journals in 45 languages. Also, includes dissertations and selected book, film and video reviews. Quarterly with annual cumulations. The print and CD-ROM versions cover 1964 to present.

MLA Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association of American, 1921- .
SML, Reference Z7006 M63
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
Available online through the Library Research Workstation

The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database (online and CD-ROM) provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The print volumes go back to 1921 and the database covers from 1963 to the present. The MLA Bibliography continues the Modern Language Association Annual Bibliography. For earlier volumes, check the SML Card Catalog under "Modern Language Association."

*Also see Research Guide for American History and American Studies