Reference Works -- Film
These authoritative reference works contain entries on film history, criticism and analysis, individuals, etc. from academic-level sources. You can find these and similar reference sources (encyclopedias, etc.) by clicking on this search of the library's Primo database.
- Schirmer Encyclopedia of FilmFour-volume set (2007) covers such aspects as production, national traditions, studios, genres, critical theory, and film history.
- International Dictionary of Films and FilmmakersComprehensive four-volume resource (4th edition, 2000) provides thorough coverage of films and filmmakers through the spring of 2000.
- Routledge Companion to Film History2010 volume consists of two parts: a set of 11 essays on various themes; and an alphabetically-arranged "critical dictionary."
- Wiley-Blackwell History of American FilmOrganized into four chronologically-arranged volumes, this 2012 set contains over 90 original essays.
- Dictionary of Film Studies2012 volume contains about 500 entries on terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism, national, international and transnational cinemas, film history, film movements and genres, etc.
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory2013 reference work contains original essays "representing the essential ideas and concepts at the centre of film theory from the beginning of the twentieth century, to the beginning of the twenty-first." You may preview the contents.
- Introduction to Criticism: Literature - Film - Culture2011 guide covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism...
- Companion to Latin American Cinema 2017 collection of original essays on films and film-making in Latin America.
- Companion to Russian Cinema2016 collection of essays covering the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema." You may preview the contents.
- African Film Studies: An Introduction2019 volume presents essays (incorporating case studies of individual films) covering history, aesthetics, and theoretical aspects. You may preview the contents.