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*Film Studies

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

Creative Arts Librarian

Lisa Zeidenberg

she/her/hers

Contact:

lzeidenb@brandeis.edu

781-736-4697

Subjects: Art, Architecture and Photography, Asian Studies and Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Film Studies, First Year Writing (FYS and CSEM) , Germanic and Slavic Languages, 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

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 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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