A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FILM HISTORY by Steven Mintz

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REFERENCE

• Nancy Allen, Film Study Collections: A Guide to their Development and Use (New York: Ungar, 1979)
• Robert A. Armour, Film: A Reference Guide (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980)
• Peter J. Bukalski, Film Research: A Critical Bibliography (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1972)
• Alan R. Dyment, The Literature of the Film: A Bibliographic Guide to Film as Art and Entertainment (New York: White Lion, 1976)
• Jack C. Ellis, Charles Derry, and Sharon Kern, The Film Book Bibliography, 1940-1975 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979)
• Wes D. Gehring, ed., Handbook of American Film Genres (New York: Greenwood, 1988)
• Robert Gottesman and Harry M. Geduld, Guidebook to Film (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972)
• Ephraim Katz, The Film Encyclopedia (New York: Lippincott & Crowell, 1979)
• Richard Koszarski, Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976)
• Richard Koszarski, Hollywood Directors, 1941-1976 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977)
• Frank N. Magill, ed., MagillÕs Survey of Cinema (Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1980, 1981, 1985)
• Frank Manchell, Film Study: A Resource Guide (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1973)
• Roger Manwell, The International Encyclopedia of Film (New York: Crown, 1972)
• Linda Mehr, ed., Motion Pictures, Television and Radio: A Union Catalogue of Manuscript and Special Collections in the Western United States (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977)
• George Rehrauer, Macmillan Film Bibliography (New York: Macmillan, 1982)
• Richard Roud, Cinema: A Critical Dictionary (New York: Viking, 1980)
• Bonnie G. Rowan, ScholarsÕ Guide to Washington, D.C. Film and Video Collections (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980)

OVERVIEWS AND SURVEYS

• Thomas W. Bohn and Richard L. Stromgren with Daniel H. Johnson, Light & Shadows: A History of Motion Pictures 2nd ed. (Sherman Oaks, Calif.: Alfred, 1978)
• David Cook, A History of Narrative Film (New York: Norton, 1981)
• Garth Jowett, Film: The Democratic Art (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975)
• Richard Schickel, Movies: The History of an Art and an Institution (New York: Basic Books, 1964)
• Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Film (New York: Random House, 1975)
• Michael Webb, ed., Hollywood: Legend and Reality (Boston: Little, Brown, 1986)

HISTORIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN FILM

• Robert C. Allen and Douglas Gomery, Film History: Theory and Practice (New York: Knopf, 1985)

THEORY AND INTERPRETATION

• David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson, The Classical Hollywood Cinema (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985)
• David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979)
• John L. Fell, Film and the Narrative Tradition (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974)
• Gerald Mast and Marshall Cohen, eds., Film Theory and Criticism 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979)
• Bill Nichols, Ideology and the Image (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981)
• Robert Ray, A Certain Tendency in the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985)
• David Thompson, America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture (New York: William Morrow, 1977)

DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS

• Gene Brown, ed., New York Times Enecyclopedia of Film (New York: New York Times, 1984)
• Gerald Gardner, The Censorship Papers: Movie Censorship Letters from the Hays Office, 1934-1968 (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987)
• Gerald Mast, ed., The Movies in Our Midst: Documents in the Cultural History of Film in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982)

ANTHOLOGIES

• Michael Clark, ed., Politics and Media: Film and Television for the Political Scientist and Historian (Fairview Park, N.Y.: Pergamon Press, 1979)
• Lewis Jacobs, ed., The Emergence of Film Art 2nd ed. (New York: Norton, 1979)
• Arthur McClure, ed., The Movies: An American Idiom (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1971)
• Michael T. Marsden, John G. Nachbar, and Sam L. Grogg, Jr., eds., Movies as Artifacts (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1982)
• John E. OÕConnor and Martin A. Jackson, eds., American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image (New York: Ungar, 1979)
• Peter Rollins, ed., Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983)
• K.R.M. Short, ed., Feature Films as History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1981)
• Robert Sklar and Charles Musser, ed., Resisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990)

FILM JOURNALS AND TRADE PERIODICALS

• American Film
• Cineaste
• Cinema Journal
• Film Comment
• Film and History
• Film Quarterly
• Film Reader
• Film in Review
• Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
• Image
• Journal of Popular Film and Television
• Journal of the University Film and Video Association
• Jump Cut
• Literature/Film Quarterly
• Marquee
• Quarterly Review of Film Studies
• Screen
• Sight and Sound
• SMPTE Journal (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers)
• Variety Velvet Light Trap Wide Angle

CHRONOLOGICAL STUDIES

SILENT FILM

• Eileen Bowser, The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 (New York: Charles ScribnerÕs Sons, 1990)
• Ivan Butler, Silent Magic: Rediscovering the Silent Film Era (New York: Ungar, 1988)
• Kevin Brownlow, Behind the Mask of Innocence (New York: Knopf, 1990)
• Thomas Elsaesser with Adam Barker, eds., Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative (London, BFI, 1990)
• William K. Everson, American Silent Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978)
• John L. Fell, ed., Film Before Griffith (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983)
• John Frazer, Artificially Arranged Scenes: The Films of Georges Melies (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979)
• Cooper C. Graham, Steven Higgins, Elaine Mancini, and Joao Luiz Vieira, D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Company (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1985)
• Thomas Gunning, D.W. Griffith and the Rise of the Narrative Film (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991)
• Miriam Hansen, Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991)
• Roger Holman, ed., Cinema 1900-1906 (London: Federation Internationale des Archives du Film, 1982)
• Walter Kerr, The Silent Clowns (New York: Knopf, 1979)
• Richard Koszarski, An EveningÕs Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 (New York: Charles ScribnerÕs Sons, 1990)
• Richard Koszarski, The Rivals of D.W. Griffith (New York: New York Zoetrope, 1980)
• Jay Leyda and Charles Musser, eds., Before Hollywood (New York: American Federation of the Arts, 1986)
• Charles J. Maland, Chaplin and American Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989)
• Lary May, Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)
• Charles Musser, The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (New York: Charles ScribnerÕs Sons, 1990)
• Charles Musser, Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)
• Charles Musser with Carol Nelson, High-Class Moving Pictures: Lyman H. Howe and the Forgotten Era of Traveling Exhibition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990)
• George C. Pratt, Spellbound in Darkness: A History of the Silent Film Rev. ed. (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973)
• David Robinson, Hollywood in the Twenties (Cranbury, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1968)
• Anthony Slide, Aspects of American Film History Prior to 1920 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978)
• Kay Sloan, The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988)
• Paul C. Spehr, The Movies Begin: Making Movies in New Jersey, 1887-1920 (Newark: Newark Museum, 1977)

WORLD WAR I

• Craig Campbell, Reel America and World War I (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1985)
• Michael T. Isenberg, War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I, 1914-41 (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson Univeristy Press, 1981)
• Larry Wayne Ward, The Motion Pictures Goes to War: The U.S. Government Film Effort During World War I (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985)

DEPRESSION ERA

• Andrew Bergman, WeÕre in the Money: Depression America and Its Films (New York: New York University Press, 1971)
• Charles Maland, American Visions: The Films of Chaplin, Ford, Capra, and Welles, 1936-1941 (New York: Arno Press, 1977)
• Gerald Weales, Canned Goods as Caviar: American Film Comedy of the 1930s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985)

FILMS OF THE 1940S

• Jeanine Basinger, The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
• Bernard F. Dick, The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985)
• Otto Friedrich, City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940Õs (New York: Harper & Row, 1986)
• Maureen Honey, Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender and Propaganada During World War II (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984)
• Kathryn Kane, Visions of War: The Hollywood Combat Films of World War II (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Research Press, 1982)
• Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits, and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies (New York: Free Press, 1987)
• Richard R. Lingeman, DonÕt You Know ThereÕs a War On?: The American Home Front, 1941-1945 (New York: G.P. PutnamÕs Sons, 1970)
• Roger Manvell, Films and the Second World War (New York: Dell, 1976)
• Dana B. Polan, Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940-1950 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
• Colin Shindler, Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939-1952 (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979)

FILMS OF THE 1950S

• Peter Biskind, Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Movies Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties (New York: Pantheon, 1983)
• Douglas Brode, Films of the Fifties (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1976)
• Thomas Doherty, Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988)
• Paul Monaco, Ribbons in Time: Movies and Society Since 1945 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987)
• Leonard Quart and Albert Auster, American Film and Society Since 1945 2nd ed. (New York: Praeger, 1991)
• Nora Sayre, Running Time (New York: Dial Press, 1982)

FILMS OF THE 1960S AND 1970S

• John Baxter, Hollywood in the Sixties (New York: Macmillan, 1972)
• James Bernardoni, The New Hollywood: What the Movies Did With the New Freedom of the Seventies (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991)
• Douglas Brode, Films of the Sixties (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1980)
• Seth Cagin and Philip Dray, Hollywood Films of the Seventies (New York: Harper & Row, 1984)
• David E. James, Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989)
• Lester J. Keyser, Hollywood in the Seventies (San Diego: A.S. Barnes, 1981)
• Robert Phillip Kolker, A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorcese, Altman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)
• Ethan Mordden, Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s (New York: Knopf, 1990)
• William J. Palmer, Films of the Seventies: A Social History (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987)
• Robin Wood, Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)

CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD

• Douglas Brode, The Films of the Eighties (Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub., 1990)
• Timothy Corrigan, A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture After Vietnam (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991)
• Michael Medved, Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values (New York: HarperCollins/Zondervan, 1992)
• Mark Crispin Miller, ed., Seeing Through Movies (New York: Pantheon, 1990)
• Tom OÕBrien, The Screening of America: Movies and Values from Rocky to Rain Man (New York: Continuum, 1990)
• Stephen Prince, Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film (Westport: Praeger, 1992)
• Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner, Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988)

THE TREATMENT OF AGE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, REGION, RELIGION, AND SEXUALITY

AFRICAN AMERICANS

• Donald Bogle, Blacks in American Films and Television: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 1988)
• Donald Bogle, Toms Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (New York: Viking, 1973)
• Thomas R. Cripps, Black Film as Genre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978)
• Thomas R. Cripps, Slow Fade to Black (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977)
• Thomas R. Cripps, Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movies from World War II to the Civil Rights Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
• John Gray, Blacks in Film and Television: A Pan-African Bibliography of Films, Filmmakers, and Performers (New York: Greenwood, 1990)
• Daniel J. Leab, From Sambo to Superspade: The Black Experience in Motion Pictures (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1975)
• James R. Nesteby, Black Images in American Films, 1896-1954 (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982)
• Anne Powers, Blacks in American Movies: A Selected Bibliography (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974)
• Henry T. Sampson, Blacks in Black and White: A Source Book on Black Films (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977)

Children and Adolescence

Thomas G. Aylesworth, Hollywood Kids: Child Stars of the Silver Screen from 1903 to the Present (New York: Dutton, 1987)

• David M. Considine, The Cinema of Adolescence (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1985)
• Thomas Patrick Doherty, Teenagers and Tennpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988)
• Ruth M. Goldstein, The Screen Image of Youth (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980)
• Kathy Merlock Jackson, Images of Children in American Film (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1986)
• Terence Pettigrew, Raising Hell: The Rebel in the Movies (New York: St. MartinÕs Press, 1986)

DISABILITY

• Michael Fleming and Roger Manvell, Images of Madness (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985)
• Krin Gabbard and Glen O. Gabbard, Psychiatry and the Cinema (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
• Lauri E. Klobas, Disability Drama in Television and Film (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1988)
• John S. Schuchman, Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988)

ETHNICITY

• Joseph M. Curran, Hibernian Green on the Silver Screen (New York: Greenwood, 1989)
• Lester D. Friedman, ed. Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991)
• Randall M. Miller, ed., The Kaleidoscopic Lens: How Hollywood Views Ethnic Groups (Englewood, N.J.: Ozer, 1980)
• Allen L. Woll and Randall M. Miller, Ethnic and Racial Images in American Film and Television (New York: Garland, 1987)

HISPANICS/LATINO/CHICANO

• George Hadley-Garcia, Hispanic Hollywood (Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub., 1991)
• Gary D. Keller, ed., Cine Chicano (Mexico: Cineteca Nacional, 1988)
• Chon A. Noriega, Chicanos and Film (New York: Garland, 1991)
• Arthur G. Pettit, Images of the Mexican-American in Fiction and Film (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1980)

HOMOSEXUALITY

• Richard Dyer, ed., Gays and Film (London: British Film Institute, 1980)
• Vito Russo, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies (New York: Harper and Row, 1981)
• Parker Tyler, Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973)

NATIVE AMERICANS

• Gretchen M. Bataille and Charles L.P. Silet, The Pretend Indians: Images of Native Americans in the Movies (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1980)
• Michael Hilger, The American Indian in Film (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1986)
• John OÕConnor, The Hollywood Indian: Stereotypes of Native Americans in Film (Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1981)

REGION AND LOCALITY

• Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr., The Celluloid South: Hollywood and the Southern Myth (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981)
• Warren French, ed., The South and Film (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1981)
• Don Graham, Cowboys and Cadillacs: How Hollywood Looks at Texas (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1983)
• Manuel Levy, Small-Town America in Film (New York: Continuum, 1990)
• Kenneth MacKinnon, HollywoodÕs Small Towns (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984)

RELIGION

• Sarah Blacher Cohen, From Hester Street to Hollywood (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983)
• Patricia Erens, The Jew in American Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984)
• Lester Friedman, The Jewish Image in American Film (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1987)
• Lester J. and Barbara Keyser, Hollywood and the Catholic Church: The Image of Roman Catholicism in American Movies (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1984)
• Thomas M. Martin, Images and the Imageless: A Study in Religious Consciousness and Film (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1981)
• John R. May, ed., Images and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Film Classics (Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1991)
• John R. May and Michael Bird, eds., Religion in Film (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982)

STEREOTYPES

• Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller, Beyond the Stars: Stock Characters in American Popular Film (Bowling Green: Bowling Green UniversityPopular Press, 1990)

WOMEN AND GENDER

• M. Joyce Baker, Images of Women in Film: The War Years, 1941-1945 (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980)
• Jackie Byars, All That Hollywood Allows: Re-Reading Gender in the 1950s Melodrama (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991)
• Teresa de Lauretis, Alice DoesnÕt: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984)
• Mary Ann Doane, The Desire to Desire: The WomanÕs Film of the 1940s (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987)
• Mary Ann Doane, Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (New York: Routledge, 1991)
• Mary Ann Doane, Patricia Mellencamp, and Linda Williams, Re- vision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1984)
• Patricia Erens, ed., Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990)
• Patricia Erens, ed., Sexual Strategems: The World of Women in Film (New York: Horizon, 1979)
• Brandon French, On the Verge of Revolt (New York: Ungar, 1974)
• Christine Gledhill, Home is Where the Heart Is: Studies in Melodrama and the WomanÕs Film (London: BFI, 1987)
• Molly Haskell, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
• Sumiko Higashi, Virgins, Vamps, and Flappers: The American Silent Movie Heroine (Montreal: Eden Press, 1979)
• Lea Jacobs, The Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942 (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1991)
• Karyn Kay and Gerald Peary, eds., Women and the Cinema (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977)
• Rosemary Ribich Kowalski, Women and Film: A Bibliography (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976)
• Amy Lawrence, Echo and Narcissus: WomenÕs Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema (Berkeley: University of California, 1991)
• Joan Mellen, Women and Their Sexuality in the New Film (New York: Dell, 1973)
• Joan Mellen, Big, Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Film (New York: Pantheon, 1977)
• Constance Penley, ed., Feminism and Film Theory (New York: Routledge, 1988)
• Michael Renov, HollywoodÕs Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology (Ann Arbor: UMI Research, 1988)
• Marjorie Rosen, Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973)
• Karen M. Stoddard, Saints and Shrews: Women and Aging in American Popular Film (Westport: Greenwood, 1983)

FILM GENRES

GENERAL

• John G. Cawelti, Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976)
• Barry K. Grant, ed., Film Genre: Theory and Criticism (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977)
• Barry K. Grant, ed., Film Genre Reader (Austin: University of Texas, 1986)
• Stuart A. Kaminsky, American Film Genres: Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film (Dayton: Pflaum, 1974)
• Stephen Neale, Genre (London: British Film Institute, 1980)
• Thomas Schatz, Hollywood Genres (New York: Random House, 1981)
• Stanley J. Solomon, Beyond Formula: American Film Genres (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976)

ANIMATION

• Donald Crafton, Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982)
• Thomas W. Hoffer, Animation: A Reference Guide (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981)
• Elizabeth Leebron and Lynn Gartley, Walt Disney: A Guide to References and Resources (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979)
• Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic (New York: New American Library, 1980)
• Richard Schickel, The Disney Version (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968)

AVANT-GARDE P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-1978 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979)

COMEDY (GENERAL)

• Stuart Byron and Elisabeth Weis, eds., Movie Comedy (New York: Penguin Books, 1977)
• Raymond Durgnat, The Crazy Mirror: Hollywood Comedy and the American Image (New York: Horizon Press, 1969)
• Gerald Mast, The Comic Mind 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979)

CRIME

• Carlos Clarens, Crime Movies: From Griffith to ŌThe GodfatherĶ and Beyond (New York: W.W. Norton, 1980)
• Eugene Rosow, Born to Lose: The Gangster Film in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978)
• Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster/Crime Film (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977)
• Jon Tuska, The Detective in Hollywood (New York: Doubleday, 1978)

DOCUMENTARIES

• Erik Barnouw, Documentary: A History of Non-Fiction Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974)
• Richard Meran Barsam, Nonfiction Film: A Critical History (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1973)
• Dyer MacCann, The PeopleÕs Films: A Political History of U.S. Government Motion Pictures (New York: Hastings House, 1973)

FILM NOIR

• Bruce Crowther, Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror (New York: Continuum, 1989)
• Foster Hirsch, The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir (San Diego: A.S. Barnes, 1981)
• E. Ann Kaplan, ed., Women in Film Noir (London: British Film Institute, 1978)
• Frank Krutnick, In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, and Masculinity (New York: Routledge, 1991)
• Robert Ottoson, A Reference Guide to the American Film Noir, 1940-1958 (Metchuan, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981)
• Spencer Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1984)
• Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward, eds., Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1979)
• V.P. Telotte, Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1989)
• Jon Tuska, Dark Cinema: American Film Noir in Cultural Perspective (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984)

HORROR

• Andrew Britton et al., American Nightmare, Essays on the Horror Film (Toronto: Festival of Festivals Publication, 1979)
• Charles Derry, Dark Dreams: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film (New York: A.S. Barns, 1977)
• Charles Derry, The Suspense Thriller: In the Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1988)
• Barry K. Grant, Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984)
• Walter Kendrick, The Thrill of Fear (New York: Grove Press, 1991)
• James Twitchell, Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985)
• Gregory A. Waller, The Living and the Undead (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986)

MELODRAMA

• Marcia Landy, Imitations of Life (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991)
• Robert Lang, American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vido, Minnelli (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989)

MUSICAL

• Rick Altman, The American Film Musical (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987)
• Rick Altman, ed., Genre: The Musical (Boston (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981)
• Bruce Babington and Peter William Evan, Blue Skies and Silver Linings: Aspects of the Hollywood Musical (Manchester, Eng.: University of Manchester Press, 1985)
• Jane Feuer, The Hollywood Musical (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982)
• Ethan Mordden, The Hollywood Musical (New York: St. MartinÕs Press, 1981)

ROMANTIC COMEDY

• Bruce Babington and Peter William Evans, Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes (New York: St. MartinÕs Press, 1989)
• Stanley Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981)
• Wes D. Gehring, Screwball Comedy: A Genre of Madcap Romance (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986)
• John Harvey, Romantic Comedy in Hollywood from Lubitsch to Sturgis (New York: Knopf, 1987)

SCIENCE FICTION

• John Brosnan, Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction (New York: St. MartinÕs Press, 1978)
• Patrick Lucanio, Them Or Us: Archetypal Interpretations of Fifties Alien Invasion Films (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987)
• Constance Penley, Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991)
• George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Shadows of the Magic Lamp: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Film (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985)
• Vivian Sobchack, Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film (New York: Continuum, 1987)
• A.W. Strictland and Forrest J. Ackerman, A Reference Guide to American Science Fiction Films (Bloomington: T.I.S. Publications, 1982)

SOCIAL PROBLEM FILMS

• Jim Cook and Mike Lewington, Images of Alcoholism (London: British Film Institute, 1979)
• Norman K. Denzin, Hollywood Shot by Shot: Alcoholism in American Cinema (New York: A. de Gruyter, 1991)
• Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy, The Hollywood Social Problem Film (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981)

VIETNAM

• Gilbert Adair, Vietnam on Film (New York: Proteus, 1981)
• Michael Anderegg, ed., Inventing Vietnam, The War in Film and Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991)
• Albert Auster and Leonard Quart, How the War was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam (Westport: Praeger, 1988)
• Linda Dittmarr and Gene Michaud, From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990)
• Owen W. Gilman, Jr., and Lorrie Smith, ed., America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War (New York: Garland, 1990)
• John Hellmann, American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
• John Carlos Rowe and Rick Berg, The Vietnam War and American Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991)
• William J. Searle, ed., Search and Clear: Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War (Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1988)
• Julian Smith, Looking Away: Hollywood and Vietnam (New York: ScribnerÕs, 1975)
• Mark Walker, Vietnam Veteran Films (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1991)
• James C. Wilson, Vietnam in Prose and Film (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1982)

WAR FILMS (GENERAL)

• Lawrence Suid, Guts and Glory: Great American War Movies (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1978)
• Thomas Doherty, Projections of War; Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993)

WESTERN

• Edward Buscombe, The BFI Companion to the Western (New York: Da Capo, 1991)
• John Cawelti, The Six-Gun Mystique (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Press, 1971)
• Brian Garfield, Western Films: A Complete Guide (New York: Da Capo, 1988)
• Robert Heide and John Gilman, Box-Office Buckaroos: The Cowboy Hero from the Wild West Show to the Silver Screen (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990)
• John G. Nachbar, Western Films: An Annotated Critical Bibliography (New York: Garland Publishing, 1975)
• Jane Tompkins, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
• John Tuska, The Filming of the West (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976)
• John Tuska, The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985)
• Will Wright, Six-Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977)

TOPICS IN AMERICAN FILM HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY

• Bernard F. Dick, Hellman in Hollywood (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982)
• Raymond Durgnat and Scott Simmon, King Vidor: American (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)
• Neal Gabler, An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (New York: Crown, 1988)
• Wes D. Gehring, Charlie ChaplinÕs World of Comedy (Muncie: Ball State University Press, 1980)
• Diane Jacobs, Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges (Berkeley: University of California, 1992)
• Robert E. Kapsis, Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)
• Robert Phillip Kolker, A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)
• Lee Lourdeaux, Italian and Irish Filmmakers in America: Ford, Capra, Coppola, and Scorsese (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990)
• Charles J. Maland, American Visions: The Films of Chaplin, Ford, Capra, and Wells, 1936-1941 (New York: Arno, 1977)
• James Naremore, The Magic World of Orson Welles (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978)
• Robert Sklar, City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)
• John Russell Taylor, Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres (London: Faber and Faber, 1983)
• Martin Williams, Griffith: First Artist of the Movies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

• Tino Balio, ed., The American Film Industry Rev. ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)
• Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976)
• Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company that Changed the Film Industry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987)
• Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System (New York: St Martin, 1986)
• Thomas Guback, The International Film Industry: Western Europe and America Since 1945 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969)
• Richard M. Hurst, Republic Studios: Between Poverty Row and the Majors (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979)
• Richard B. Jewell, The RKO Story (New York: Arlington House, 1982)
• Gorham Kindem, ed., The American Movie Industry: The Business of Motion Pictures (Carbondale: 1982)
• Anthony Slide, The Kindergarten of the Movies: A History of the Fine Arts Company (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980)
• Kristin Thompson, Exporting Entertainment: America in the World Film Market, 1907-1934 (London: British Film Institute, 1985)
• Janet Wasco, Movies and Money: Financing the American Film Industry (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, 1982)

CENSORSHIP

• Edward De Grazia and Roger K. Newman, Banned Films: Movies, Censors and the First Amendment (New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1982)
• Annette Kuhn, Cinema, Censorship, and Sexuality, 1909-1925 (New York: Routledge, 1988)
• Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons, The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990)

FICTIONAL TREATMENTS OF HOLLYWOOD

• Jonas Spatz, Hollywood in Fiction: Some Versions of the American Myth (Brussels: Moulton, 1969)
• Walter Wells, Tycoons and Locusts: A Regional Look at Hollywood Fiction in the Thirties (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973)

FILM TECHNOLOGY

• Evan William Cameron, ed., Sound and the Cinema (Pleasantville, N.Y.: Redgrave, 1980)
• Brian Coe, The History of Movie Photography (New York: New York Zoetrope, 1982)
• Raymond Fielding, ed., A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967)
• Harry M. Geduld, The Birth of the Talkies: From Edison to Jolson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975)
• Martin V. Melosi, Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown, 1990)
• Alexander Walker, The Shattered Silents (New York: William Morrow, 1979)

MUSIC

• Gillian Anderson, Music for Silent Films: 1894-1929 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1988)
• Graham Bruce, Bernard Hermann: Film Music and Narrative (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1983)
• James L. Limbacher, Film Music from Violins to Video (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974)
• Steven Smith, A Heart at FireÕs Center: the Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann

POLITICS

• Mick Broderick, Nuclear Movies (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991)
• Ronald Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood- Washington Connection (New York: Pantheon, 1990)
• Larry Ceplair and Stephen Englund, The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980)
• Terry Christensen, Reel Politics: American Political Movies from Birth of a Nation to Platoon (New York: Blackwell, 1987)
• Dan E. Moldea, Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob (New York: Penguin, 1987)
• Victor Navasky, Naming Names (New York: Viking Press, 1980)
• Michael Parenti, Make-Believe Media: Politics of Entertainment (New York: St. MartinÕs, 1992)
• Jack J. Saheen, ed., Nuclear War Films (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978)

PROPAGANDA

• David Culbert, ed., Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History (New York: Greenwood, 1990)
• Richard A. Maynard, Propaganda on Film: A Nation at War (Rochelle Park, N.J.: Hayden, 1975)
• Nicholas Pronay and D.W. Spring, eds., Propaganda, Politics, and Film 1918-1945 (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1982)
• Anthony Rhodes, Propaganda (New York: Chelsea House, 1976)
• Richard Taylor, Film Propaganda (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1979)
• David M. White and Richard Averson, The Celluloid Weapon (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972)

SCREENWRITERS

• Ian Hamilton, The Writer in Hollywood, 1915-1951 (New York: Harper & Row, 1990)
• Pat McGilligan, Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)
• Nancy Lynn Schwartz, The Hollywood WriterÕs Wars (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982)

STAR SYSTEM

• Charles Affron, Cinema and Sentiment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982)
• Richard Dyer, Stars (London: British Film Institute, 1978)
• Elisabeth Weis, ed., The Movie Star (New York: Viking Press, 1981)

STUDIO SYSTEM

• Ethan Mordden, The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies (New York: Knopf, 1987)
• Thomas Schatz, The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (New York: Pantheon, 1988)

THEATERS AND MOVIE GOING

• Douglas Gomery, Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992)
• David Naylor, American Picture Palaces: The Architecture of Fantasy (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981)
• Richard Stoddard, Theatre and Cinema Architecture: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research, 1978)