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.

Art in the Cinematic Imagination. PN1995.9.A73 F46 2006

Bringing an art historical perspective to the realm of American and European film, Art in the Cinematic Imagination examines the ways in which films have used works of art and artists themselves as cinematic and narrative motifs. From the use of portraits in Vertigo to the cinematic depiction of women artists in Artemisia and Camille Claudel, Susan Felleman incorporates feminist and psychoanalytic criticism to reveal individual and collective perspectives on sex, gender, identity, commerce, and class. Probing more than twenty films from the postwar era through contemporary times, Art in the Cinematic Imagination considers a range of structurally significant art objects, artist characters, and art-world settings to explore how the medium of film can amplify, reinvent, or recontextualize the other visual arts. Fluently speaking across disciplines, Felleman's study brings a broad array of methodologies to bear on questions such as the evolution of the "Hollywood Love Goddess" and the pairing of the feminine with death on screen. A persuasive approach to an engaging body of films, Art in the Cinematic Imagination illuminates a compelling and significant facet of the cinematic experience.

Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film.. PN1995.25 .D36 1996

The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche discusses how the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the interplay between the arts, on the dialectic of word and image, on the relationship between artistic creativity and sexual difference, and on the tension between tradition and modernity. Specifically, Dalle Vacche explores Jean-Luc Godard' iconophobia ( Pierrot Le Fou ) and Andrei Tarkovsky' iconophilia ( Andrei Rubleov ), Kenji Mizoguchi' split allegiances between East and West ( Five Women around Utamaro ), Michelangelo Antonioni' melodramatic sensibility ( Red Desert ), Eric Rohmer' project to convey interiority through images ( The Marquise of O ), F. W. Murnau' debt to Romantic landscape painting ( Nosferatu ), Vincente Minnelli' affinities with American Abstract Expressionism ( An American in Paris ), and Alain Cavalier' use of still life and the close-up to explore the realms of mysticism and femininity ( Theacute;regrave;se ). While addressing issues of influence and internationality, Dalle Vacche concludes that intertextuality is central to an appreciation of the dialogical nature of the filmic medium, which, in appropriating or rejecting art history, defines itself in relation to national traditions and broadly shared visual cultures.

Art and Artists on Screen. PN1995.9.A73 W3 1993

Aims to provide a critical analysis of key English language examples of films depicting the fine arts and artists from the 1930s to the present day (one French feature film is also considered). It asks - how are fine arts visualized by film-makers and, to what extent are such films accurate? .

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)

Procedure Note:

1. Verify if Tufts Library has the book you need.

2. Use ILliad (interlibrary loan service) to request non-Tufts books.