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*Film Studies

Guide to resources for research in Film, Television & Media Studies at Brandeis

Literary adaptations

The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (Cambridge Companions Online) by Deborah Cartmell (Editor); Imelda Whelehan (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
"Offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children."
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (Cambridge Companions Online) by Russell Jackson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
"Collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays."
A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (ebook) by Diana E. Henderson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006-01-23

Film adaptations: print reference

The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film by John C. Tibbetts; James M. Welsh; Steve Allen (Foreword by)
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1997.85 .T544 2001
The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film by John C. Tibbetts; James M. Welsh
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1997.85 .T54 1998

Genre films

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies by C. J. Henderson; William Shatner (Foreword by)
Call Number: Main Library - Stacks + PN1995.9.S26 H38 2001
Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties by Bill Warren
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1995.9.S26 W37 1997
The Encyclopaedia of the Musical Film by Stanley Green
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1995.9.M86 G7 1988
Gangster films: a comprehensive, illustrated reference to people, films, and terms by Michael L. Stephens
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN1995.9.G3 S84 1996
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
Film noir: a comprehensive, illustrated reference to movies, terms, and persons by Michael L. Stephens
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN1995.9.F54 S74 1995

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Subjects: Film Studies

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