POLSCI 202: Film, Race, and Politics: Film Resources

• Historical Dictionary of American Cinema (eBook)
• Cinema Year by Year: 1894-2002
• Dictionary of Film Terms
  
• Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film
  
• Encyclopedia of European Cinema
• International Dictionary of Broadcast & Film
  
• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
• International Film Guide
  
• Oxford Guide to Film Studies
  
  For books on specific directors or films, try a
  "subject heading" search using the director's
  name or film title.  Samples of subject
  heading searches include:
  Documentary films--History and criticism

Here are a few journals to search:

• Cineaste
  
• Cinema Journal
  
• Film Comment
• Film History
  
• Film Quarterly
• Journal of Visual Culture
• Sight & Sound
  
• Studies in Documentary Film

Search for film articles in these databases:

Search for production information about specific films:

Most recently published titles listed first:

• Language and Style of Film Criticism (2012)
• Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts (2011)
• Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image (2011)
• Valuing Films: Shifting Perceptions of Worth (2011)
• Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (2010)
• Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (2008)
• Inventing Film Studies (2008)
• American Icons: the Genesis of a National Visual Language (2008)
• The new-brutality film: race and affect in contemporary Hollywood cinema (2005)
• Companion to Literature and Film (2004)
• Companion to Film Theory (2004)
• Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood (1998)
• Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image (1998)
• After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries (1995)
• Cultures of Vision: Images, Media, and the Imaginary (1995)
• Close Viewings: an Anthology of New Film Criticism (1990)
  

Glossary of Film Terms
--written and designed for the New School's Film Production Department