Books and Media

Library Catalog (use Animated Films; Comedy Films; Film criticism; Film Genres; Film Noir; Horror Films; Minorities in Motion Pictures; Motion Pictures as keyword or subject heading for searches in the catalog)

Call numbers:  791.4 - 791.49

Databases

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)

Alt-Press Watch

J-STOR

Proquest Direct

Reference Sources

The American movies reference book; the sound era R 791.43 M621a
Blacks in American films and television : an encyclopedia R 791.4308 B675b
The Columbia companion to American history on film: how the movies have portrayed the American past R 791.43658 C726 2003
Complete film dictionary   R 791.4303 K82c1998
Contemporary North American film directors R791.430233 C761 2002
Dictionary of film terms: the aesthetic companion to film analysis R 791.43 B386d 1994
The encyclopedia of American independent filmmaking R 791.4303 L799e 2002
Encyclopedia of film themes, settings and series R 791.437503 A737e 2001
An encyclopedic dictionary of women in early American films, 1895-1930 R 791.430280922 L913e 2005
Film encyclopedia R 791.4303 K19f 1998
History of the American cinema v.1-10   R 791.4309 H673
International encyclopedia of film   R 791.4303 I61
Multicultural films: a reference guide R 791.43652 W458m 2005
New York times guide to the best 1,000 movies ever made R 791.4375 N536 2004
Oxford history of world cinema   R 791.4309 O98 1996
Rough guide to comedy movies R 791.43617 M121r 2005
Rough guide to gangster movies R 791.43655 H893r 2005
Rough guide to horror movies R 791.436164 J76r 2005
Rough guide to sci-fi movies R 791.43615 S282r 2005
Schirmer encyclopedia of film R 791.4303 G761s 2007
  

Web Sites

All Movie Guide

Film and Video Resources (marjorie i. mitchell multimedia center, Northwestern University Library)

Internet Movie Database

Internet Movie Scripts Database

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Movies and Films

Video & Movie Databases

Updated on:  February 28, 2009

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