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

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

These Amazing Shadows - Recommended Documentary about Film

These amazing shadows - DVD

Reference Book Recommendations (may duplicate content elsewhere)

World Film Directors (Volume 1 and 2) by John Wakeman (Editor)
ISBN: 9780824207571
World Film Directors (Volume 1 and 2) by John Wakeman (Editor)
ISBN: 9780824207632

Websites (may duplicate content elsewhere)

Hope for America: Performers, Politics and Pop Culture: A Climate of Fear
Library of Congress virtual exhibit. Explores blacklisting in Hollywood.
American Film Institute
AFI - 100 Most Inspiring Films of All Time
AFI - The 100 Most Thrilling American Films
AFI - The 100 Greatest American Movies Of All Time
Notebook - Mubi
Notebook is a daily, international film publication.
Current - Criterion Collection
An online magazine covering film culture past and present
Journal - Letterboxd
Journal is Letterboxd’s online magazine.

Online databases and resources (may duplicate content elsewhere)

IMDb
Search this online database of films and television shows for information such as cast names, year produced, etc.
Wikipedia

National Film Registry Wikipedia page - Alphabetical list of films. Clicking on individual film titles will open up specific information per film.
Search a list of films by various Wikipedia categories/indexes
List of films in the public domain in the United States
Search films by the "category" tag on Wikipedia

National Film Preservation Board - Library of Congress
National Film Registry - Library of Congress
American Rhetoric - Movie Speeches
From americanrhetoric.com.
Black Film Archive

Recommended Film Critics (may duplicate content elsewhere)

Other Documentaries about Film

Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster - Films on Demand

Birth of a movement : the battle against America's first blockbuster - DVD

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (available via interlibrary loan)

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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

YouTube - Other Videos of Interest

YouTube - The Technical Side of Film

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