Class Guide: ENGL233: Flim Analysis

Resources selected to supplement Film Analysis (ENGL233) at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

Books in Our Library

Note: Some titles are available online as E-Books

• Empires of the Imagination: A Critical Survey of Fantasy Cinema from Georges Méliès to The Lord of the Rings [PN1995.9.F36 W67 2005]
• Films of Alfred Hitchcock [PN1998.3.H58 S74 1993] - More books on Hitchcock are available in our catalog.
• History of the American Cinema - Ten volumes consisting of the following:
  • Emergence of cinema: the American Screen to 1907 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.1] or [E-book]
  • Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.2] or [E-book]
  • An Evening's Entertainment: the age of the silent feature picture, 1915-1928 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.3] or [E-book]
  • The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.4] or [E-book]
  • Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.5] or [E-book]
  • Boom and Bust: the American Cinema in the 1940s [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.6] or [E-book]
  • Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.7] or [E-book]
  • The Sixties, 1960-1969 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.8] or [E-book]
  • Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.9] or [E-book]
  • A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 [PN1993.5.U6 H55 vol.10] or [E-book]
• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers - Four volumes (v.1: Films; v.2: Directors; v.3: Actors and Actresses; v.4: Writers and Production Artists) [E-Book]
• Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video [PR3093 .S545 1997]
• VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (2007) [E-Book]

Don't hesitate to ask a reference librarian for help in locating books and media in the TC3 Library Catalog. Material not owned by our library can be located and borrowed through the SUNY Union Catalog, a single search interface for 62 SUNY library catalogs and WorldCat, a wordwide database of library books and materials.

Try these subject headings to find books on Film in TC3's online library catalog:

• Documentary Films
• Feature Films
• Films - History and Criticism
• Hitchcock, Alfred
• Motion pictures
• Motion Pictures - History
• Motion Picture Producers and Directors
• Screenwriters
• War Films

Film-Related Journals in Electronic Format

Film-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals, also listed by subject (Film). Be sure to search the large, general-purpose databases such as Academic Search Complete and Gale Academic OneFile and the more specialized databases such as Literature Resource Center, Humanities International Complete, Gale Virtual Reference Collection, and American Film Scripts Online, accessible via our Database Page. Search for such terms as:

• Film adaptations
• Literature -- Adaptations
• Motion pictures & literature
• Motion picture producers & directors
• Motion pictures -- Reviews
• Science fiction films

Web Resources

• Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences - There is an Academy Awards Database
• Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE) - Links to reviews for over 74,294 film titles. Sources include the New York Times, New York Magazine, Salon, Chicago-Sun Times
• New York Times: Movies - Has a Review Archive in which you can browse or search 28,000 New York Times movie reviews. Included in the free review archive are all films reviewed since 1960, reviews of all Best Picture Academy Award winners, as well as The New York Times guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
• Roger Ebert

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Last update: Tuesday, October 25, 2011