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Art of Film (HUMN 2443 - Alexa Larson-Thorisch): Intro

Created for Alexa Larson-Thorisch's HUMN 2443. Titles may vary from semester to semester and resources are added on an ongoing basis.

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An Introduction to Film Genres
ISBN: 9780393930191

An Introduction to Film Genres, written by leading film scholars specifically for undergraduates who are new to the study of film, provides an introduction that helps students see thirteen film genres in a new light---to help them identify the themes, iconography, and distinctive stylistic traits of each genre.

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Birth of a Movement - Films on Demand

Links to General Websites for Researching Film

American Film Institute
Black Film Archive
Current - Criterion Collection
An online magazine covering film culture past and present
David Bordewell's Website Cinema
Film: An Overview
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Filmsite.org
The Hollywood Reporter
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Library of Congress
National Film Preservation Board
Library of Congress
RogerEbert.com
Studiobinder.com
Sundance Institute
Wikipedia

Recommended General References

TED 2012

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The development film in the Americas

Sick and dirty : Hollywood's gay golden age and the making of modern queerness

Postracial fantasies and zombies : on the racist apocalyptic politics devouring the world

Rebirth of a nation : reparations and remaking America

Viewfinder by Jon M. Chu

Viva Hollywood : the legacy of Latin and Hispanic artists in American film

Looking at movies : an introduction to film

Charlie Chaplin vs. America : when art, sex, and politics collided

World Socialist Cinema

What film is good for : on the values of spectatorship

Best pick : a journey through film history and the Academy Awards

The encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ portrayals in American film

The last action heroes : the triumphs, flops, and feuds of Hollywood's kings of carnage

Theaters of war : how the pentagon and CIA took Hollywood

Colorization : one hundred years of Black films in a white world

TRANSNATIONAL TRAILBLAZERS OF EARLY CINEMA

Camera man : Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the Twentieth Century

Shooting women : behind the camera, around the world

The encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ portrayals in American film

Politics go to the movies : international relations and politics in genre films and television

Buster Keaton : a filmmaker's life

A queer way of feeling : girl fans and personal archives of early Hollywood

Netflix Recommends Algorithms, Film Choice, and the History of Taste

Film art : an introduction

Cinematic canines : dogs and their work in the fiction film

New Irish Storytellers

Women in war films

Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity

Movie mavens : US newspaper women take on the movies, 1914-1923

The Academy and the award : the coming of age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Now playing : early moviegoing and the regulation of fun

The understructure of writing for film & television

Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity

Cultures of representation : disability in world cinema contexts

Women in the silent cinema : histories of fame and fate

For kids of all ages : the National Society of Film Critics on children's movies

White robes, silver screens : movies and the making of the Ku Klux Klan

A hidden history of film style : cinematographers, directors, and the collaborative process

Articles of interest from the web

Who invented motion pictures? Hint: Not Edison nor the Lumières.
The Christian Science Monitor
How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies
LitHub
Like a mob hit – the passing of a generation of movie gangsters
NPR
It’s a Wonderful (Copyright) Life
Plagiarism Today
Discovering the forgotten women of silent cinema
NPR
THE NEW BLACK FILM CANON
Slate.com
How Horseback Riding Helped Barbara Stanwyck Rise Above Hollywood Misogyny
LitHub

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