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Selected Resources
- American Film Institute Catalog
The AFI Catalog, compiled by specialist researchers at the American Film Institute (AFI), is the premier resource for American films, providing an exhaustive view of American features produced between 1893 and 1971. Offering an unmatched level of detail and subject indexing, the catalog includes full production and cast information. In addition, extensive plot summaries and meticulously researched production notes written by AFI experts give exciting insight into every detail of the motion picture.
African American films through 1959 : a comprehensive, illustrated filmography - Richards, Larry
Call Number: PN1995.9 .N4 R54 1998 (Reference)
ISBN/ISSN: 0786403071
The bent lens : a world guide to gay & lesbian film
Call Number: PN1995.9 .H55 B45 2003
ISBN/ISSN: 1555838065
Cinema of outsiders : the rise of American independent film
Call Number: PN1995.9 .E96 L43 1999
ISBN/ISSN: 0814751237
A great introduction to the American Independent Film movement. Most films were reviewed by Levy in Variety and, perhaps arbitrarily, begins the chronicle of films in 1977 (of course not leaving out Waters’s Pink Flamingos (1972)). There is a useful Filmography organized by title and by year in the appendices. Also, Film Quarterly’s special feature issue (Vol29 No. 3, Spring 1976, is devoted to Independent Cinema).
Classic movie companion
Call Number: PN1998 .C48 1999b (Reference)
ISBN/ISSN: 0786883944- Contemporary Hollywood's negative Hispanic image : an interpretive filmography, 1956-1993
Call Number: PN1995.9 .L37 R54 1994
ISBN/ISSN: 0313288410 - Directors and their films : a comprehensive reference, 1895-1990
Call Number: PN1998 .B85 1993 (Reference)
ISBN/ISSN: 0899507662 - Within our gates : ethnicity in American feature films, 1911-1960
Call Number: PN1995.9 .M56 W58 1997 (Reference)
ISBN/ISSN: 0520209648
Covers portrayals of ethnicity in 2464 films made between 1911-1960 - Feature films, 1960-1969 : a filmography of English-language and major foreign-language United States releases
Call Number: PN1998 .L355 2001 (Reference)
ISBN/ISSN: 0786411007 - Films by genre : 775 categories, styles, trends, and movements defined, with a filmography for each
Call Number: PN1998 .L63 1993 (Reference)
ISBN/ISSN: 0899507808 - The films of the eighties : a complete, qualitative filmography to over 3400 feature-length English language films, theatrical and video-only, released between January 1, 1980, and December 31, 1989
Call Number: PN1998 .N78 1991 - The films of the seventies : a filmography of American, British and Canadian films 1970-1979
Call Number: PN1998 .S495 2000 - A Guide to Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino made film and video
Call Number: PN1995.9 .L37 G85 1998 - The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews : motion pictures in the National Archives
Call Number: DS115.95 .Z9 G45 1989 - The Japanese filmography : a complete reference to 209 filmmakers and the over 1250 films released in the United States, 1900 through 1994
Call Number: PN1993.5 .J3 G35 1996 - Masters of lens and light : a checklist of major cinematographers and their feature films
Call Number: PN1998 .D285 1991 - A title guide to the talkies, 1975 through 1984
Call Number: PN1998 .A6695 1986 - A title guide to the talkies; a comprehensive listing of 16,000 feature-length films from October, 1927, until December, 1963
Call Number: PN1998 .D55 V.1 / V.2 - VideoHound's independent film guide
Call Number: PN1998 .S84 1999 (Reference)
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