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Some Print Resources at the WCC Library

• The Connoisseur’s Guide to the Movies by James Monaco (Reference Collection, PN1995 .M567 1985)
• A World History of Film by Robert Sklar (PN1993.5.A1 S555 2002)
• Moviemakers’ Master Class : private lessons from the world’s foremost directors by Laurent Tirard (PN1995.9.P7 T495 2002)
• The Oxford history of world cinema edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (Reference Collection, PN1995 .M567 1985)

Note: in the WCC Library, try browsing the PN1993 to PN1999 section in either the Main or the Reference collections. Also try searching for books that provide historical background on the film or the producer, etc.

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Digital Books (via eBrary and NetLibrary)

• European Cinema : Face to Face with Hollywood, by Thomas Elsaesser
• Film Social Practice, by Graeme Turner
• Film Cultures Reader, edited by Graeme Turner
• From Antz to Titanic: A Student Guide to Film Analysis, by Martin Barker
• Film as religion : myths, morals, and rituals by John Lyden
• Philosophy Goes to the Movies : An Introduction to Philosophy by Christopher Falzon
• Disaster movies a loud, long, explosive, star-studded guide to avalanches, earthquakes, floods, meteors, sinking ships, twisters, viruses, killer bees, nuclear fallout, and alien attacks in the cinema!!!! by Glenn Kay

Web Sites

• The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) - large database, detailed movie information, some trivia and commentary
• the EBSCO databases (and Academic Search Premier in particular) have articles on films
• moviesfoundonline.com - free movies, cartoons, etc.
• Europa Film Treasures - archival films from Europe

Videos

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Film Analysis

• Movies and Mass Culture edited by John Belton (PN1995.9.S6 M68 1996)
• Film Theory Goes to the Movies edited by Ava Collins (PN1994 .F43915 1993)
• Splatter Movies : Breaking the Last Taboo of the Screen by John McCarty (PN1995.9.H6 M33 1984)
• The Celluloid Closet : Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo (PN1995.9 H55 R8 1981)

Documentary

• Past Imperfect : History According to the Movies edited by Mark Carnes (PN1995.9.H5 P37 1996)
• Seeing Through Movies by Mark Crispin Miller (PN1994 .S47 1990)
• The Movies in Our Midst : Documents in the Cultural History of Film in America edited by Gerald Mast (PN1993.5 U6 M69 1982)
• Visualizing Anthropology edited by Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz (eBrary)

Specific Films and Directors

• Hitchcock-- the Murderous Gaze, by William Rothman (PN1998 A3 H553)
• Something Like an Autobiography, by Akira Kurosawa (PN1998.A3 K789413 1983)
• Woody Allen, by Nancy Pogel (PN1998.A3 A5676 1987)

note: when searching for a director or other name, to make your search more effective, try putting the whole name in quotation marks, such as "Woody Allen"