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Guide to resources for research in Film, Television & Media Studies at Brandeis
Reference sources
Essential reference book
General film reference
Filmmakers: reference
Women and film
Film history
International film
Adaptations & genre films
Film criticism & websites
Finding books
Finding articles & criticism
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Lisa Zeidenberg
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Subjects:
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Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies
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Film Studies
,
Music
,
Theater and Dance
African American film & television ebook reference
Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema
by
Torriano S. Berry; Venise T. Berry
Publication Date: 2015-05-07
The A to Z of African-American Television
by
Kathleen Fearn-Banks
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television
by
Bob McCann
Publication Date: 2009-12-08
Film studies & film theory
A Dictionary of Film Studies (Oxford Reference)
by
Annette Kuhn; Guy Westwell
Publication Date: 2020-07-12
The Film Studies Dictionary
by
Steve Blandford; Barry Keith Grant; Jim Hillier
Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN1993.45 .B49 2001
Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory
by
Roberta E. Pearson (Editor); Gill Branston (Editor); William Urricchio (Editor); Philip Simpson (Editor); David Black (Editor)
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1993.45 .C75 2001
Essential reference book
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
by
David Thomson
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1998.A2 T55 2002
General film reference
The Film Encyclopedia
by
Ephraim Katz
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1993.45 .K34 2005
"The most comprehensive encyclopedia of world cinema in a single volume."
The New York Times Encyclopedia of Film, 1896-1979 (13 vols)
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1993 .N465 1984
"Reprint collection of facsimile articles that appeared in The New York Times."
Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Cinema (ebook)
by
Helicon Publishing
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Filmmakers: reference
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers
by
John C. Tibbetts; James Michael Welsh; Gene D. Phillips (Foreword by)
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1998.2 .T53 2002
The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (in Film & Television Literature Index database)
by
Andrew Sarris
Publication Date: 1998-12-01
Fifty Contemporary Film Directors (ebook)
by
Yvonne Tasker (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010-10-19
The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors
by
Yoram Allon (Editor); Del Cullen (Editor); Hannah Patterson; Nick James (Foreword by)
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1998.2 .W385 2000
Women and film
The St. James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia: Women on the Other Side of the Camera
by
St. James Press Staff; Amy L. Unterburger
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference PN1998.2 .S683 1999
Also available
online
via Film & Television Literature Index.
Women Filmmakers and Their Films (in Gale in Context: Biography database)
by
Amy L. Unterburger (Editor)
Publication Date: 1998-05-01
Women Film Directors
by
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Call Number: Creative Arts Reference PN1998.2 .F67 1995
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films
by
Denise Lowe
Call Number:
Print edition
also available.
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