American Directors, Jean-Pierre Coursodon with Pierre Sauvage (New York: McGraw Hill, 1983).

LOCATION

Main Reference:

PN 1998.A2C657 1983 Vol. 1

PN 1998.A2C657 1983 Vol. 2

Offers 118 critical essays on virtually every American film director of recognized and, importantly, unrecognized (as deemed by Coursodon) stature. Each essay is preceded by a filmography. Includes a general index.

American Film Institute Catalog (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1999).

LOCATION

Main Reserve: PN 1998.A57 1999 CD-ROM

Provides comprehensive documentation of over 45,000 American films, including more than 17,500 made in the early years of film before 1910. Indexed by a wide range of fields, such as character names, cast and crew, title, release year, subject, genre, and songs; and most records contain extensive plot summaries. Covers 1893-1970 (except 1951-60). Also available on the Internet through OBIS.

The Encyclopedia of Hollywood, Scott Siegel and Barbara Siegel (New York: Facts on File, 1990).

LOCATION

Main Reference: PN1993.5.U6S494 1990

"A history of the American film industry in encyclopedic form." Includes a selected bibliography and index.

Feature Films 1940-1949: a United States Filmography, by Alan G. Fetrow (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994).

LOCATION

Main Reference: PN1993.5.U6 F456 1994

Feature Films 1950-1959: a United States Filmography, by Alan G. Fetrow (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1999).

LOCATION

Main Reference: PN1993.5.U6 F457 1999

Guide to American Cinema, 1930-1965, Thomas Whissen (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998).

LOCATION

Main Reference: PN1993.5.U6 W46 1998

Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema, Donald W. McCaffrey and Christopher P. Jacobs (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999)

LOCATION

Main Reference: PN1995.75.M33 1999

The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry, Anthony Slide (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998).

LOCATION

Main Reference: PN1993.5.U6S539 1998

Provides information on significant American film genres and series, studios and production companies, and industry organization and terminology. It also includes helpful bibliographies at the ends of many articles and indicates sources of archival material.