Recommended:

Film Art: An Introduction, 8th ed. PN1995 .B617 2008

Film as art: Creativity, technology and business -- The significance of film form -- Narrative as a formal system -- The Shot: Mise-en-scene -- The Shot: Cinematography -- The relation of shot to shot editing -- Sound in the cinema -- Summary: Style as a formal system -- Film genres -- Documentary, experimental and animated films -- Film criticism: sample analyses -- Film art and film history.

Introduction; The Beginnings of Russian Cinema (1908-19); Revolutionary Cinema, or Cinema for the Masses (1919-29); The Purges, the Second World War and the Cold War, or How Stalin Entertained the People (1930-53); The Beginnings of Russian Cinema (1908-19); The Thaw - New Beginnings, New Lives (1954-66); The Stagnation: Mainstream and Auteur Cinema (1967-82); Glasnost and Before (1983-92); Post-Soviet Russian Cinema (1992-2000); Cinema in the Putin Era (2001-8)

Beginnings / Alison McMahan -- Soviet cinema: the old and the new / Denise J. Youngblood -- Weimar cinema: the predicament of modernity / Anton Kaes -- Dada and surrealist film / Rudolf Kuenzli -- French cinema in the 1930s / Dudley Andrew -- From Italian neorealism to the golden age of cinecittà / Peter Bondanella -- Postwar Scandinavian cinema / Peter Schlepelern -- The French new wave / T. Jefferson Kline -- From Ealing comedy to the British new wave / Sarah Street -- The new German cinema / Thomas Elsaesser -- The Cinéma du look / Sue Harris -- The new Italian cinema / Gaetana Marrone -- Contemporary Spanish cinema / Peter William Evans -- East-Central European cinema: beyond the Iron Curtain / Paul Coates -- French cinema of the margins / Martine Beugnot -- New directions in European cinema / John Orr.

Cinema, society, and science -- Early cinema --Film as art and industry -- The global spread of film-- Hollywood in the 1920s -- The cinemas of Europe -- Soviet cinema-- The transition to sound -- Hollywood genres -- Meeting Hollywood's challenge -- Documentary, propaganda, and politics --Film and World War II -- Italian neorealism -- Hollywood's struggles -- Art cinema of Europe and Asia -- Hollywood in the 1950s -- The French new wave --Cinema of liberation -- The new documentary -- American film: turmoil and transformation -- European films of the 1960s and 1970s -- Hollywood recovery -- The cinematic avant-garde -- The global advance of cinema -- English-language art cinema-- New European film -- World cinema -- American cinema: special effects and beyond.

Web Sites

1. BFI Statistics on film and television
   UK film production, academy awards, box office, etc.

1. The Hollywood Reporter: Charts
   Movie sales, box office, production budgets, etc.

1. KORDA
   Database on public funding for the film and audiovisual sector in Europe.

1. Lumiere
   Database on admissions for films released in Europe.

1. MERLIN
   Database on legal information relevant to the audiovisual Sector in Europe.

1. Nielsen EDI
   A Web based system that allows our clients to instantly access real-time film performance on a global, nationwide, regional, local or theatre level.

1. The Numbers
   The largest freely available database of movie industry information on the Web.

1. World Wide Box Office
   Current international box office numbers.

Sample Searches in the Catalog for Scripts (screenplays):

• 1. Click on the search for real time results in the Catalog:
  1. motion picture plays
  1. screenplay and "All quiet on the western front"

• 2. Published radio, television, and film scripts: a bibliography. Ref. Z7223.S3 P68 (only up to 1975)

• 3. The Drama Scholars' Index to Plays and Filmscripts. Ref. Z5781 .S17 (1974-1980 only.)

• 4.Search Play Index for radio and television plays.

WorldCat (catalogs of libraries worldwide)

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